Staff Nurse Strengthening families | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 14 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 November 2024 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS2 7EZ |
| Company: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6485716/407-COMMUNITY-6485716 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work in our Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-19 (Health Visiting and School Nursing). You will be part of the Strengthening Families team supporting babies, children and young people who are on child in need or child protection plans. You will be support by senior Strengthening Families practitioners who are qualified health visitors and school nurses.
The ideal applicant will have experience of child safeguarding and with wider partners in early years, education, social care and voluntary sector. A commitment to keeping babies, children and young people safe and well is essential. You will be supported to develop your knowledge and skills in the area of safeguarding.
The team is part of wider HCP 0-19 service which focuses on delivering a public health services to babies, children and young people and their families. Our focus in on prevention, promotion and protection.
There are great career progression opportunities within the service including an opportunity for professional development and secondment to undertake a degree in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing to qualify as a health visitor or school nurse
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.
As a staff nurse in the Strengthening Families Team you will manage your own caseload of babies, children and young people to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care. You will be supervised and supported by qualified School Nurses and Health Visitors supporting babies, children and young people who are subject of child in need and child protection plans. You will contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions within the wider Healthy Child Programme 0-19.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development of our Pleck Road site was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children’s Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from some 60 sites including Health Centres and GP surgeries. Covering Walsall and beyond, our multidisciplinary services include rapid response in the community and home-based care, so that those with long-term conditions and the frail and elderly, can remain in their own homes to be cared for wherever appropriate.
Responsibility for planning, co-coordinating and reviewing own caseload in conjunction with the team. Ensuring that workload is appropriately prioritised and managed.
Ensure effective communication with babies, children, young people, parents, carers and others including those whose first language is not English, liaising with and co-ordinating interpreting services.
Undertake holistic health assessments and plan, implement and evaluate evidence based nursing care for individual babies, children, young people and their families.
Support the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of health education and promotion packages using evidence based materials and methods.
Where appropriate, contribute to multi agency processes to assess and develop care plans to support babies, children and young people’s health and wellbeing
Have a good knowledge of local services in health and partner agencies and where appropriate, liaise and refer a baby, child or young person to multi-disciplinary teams and other specialist services.
Where appropriate, take on the role of lead professional to coordinate delivery of care plans for children and young people e.g. Children on plans
Working in partnership with the multi-agency team provide clinical advice, information and support regarding babies, children and young people with long term conditions, disability or specific health problems to minimise negative impacts on their lives and promote health gain and social inclusion to the children, family and carers.
Support the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of health promoting activities with individuals and groups, utilising evidence-based materials and methods e.g. sexual health and relationships, emotional health, growth, healthy lifestyles
Develop and maintain effective communication networks and work collaboratively with key partners, health workers, statutory and voluntary agencies to actively promote national and local public health priorities
Plan, deliver and evaluate group work for children and young people and/or parents e.g. emotional Health groups, parenting groups
Plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions to early years settings, schools and other agencies.
Act as role model leading by example through practice with positive attitude and presentation.
Attend regular team and service meetings to give and receive relevant information and to maintain effective team working.
Provide mentorship to learners including, pre and post registration nurse and mentorship, supervision and support for members of the team as directed by Clinical Team Leader, commensurate with knowledge and skills.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Oct 2024