Practice Facilitator School Nurse Barking and Dagenham | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 plus HCAS per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2025 |
| Location: | Dagenham, RM9 4SR |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7051925/395-BD017-25 |
Summary
We are looking for a School Nurse with strong clinical leadership skills who can motivate and challenge practice.
The post holder will be the clinical lead for the Barking and Dagenham Children’s services in supporting the Barking and Dagenham for School Nursing. This will also include the evaluation and management of those developments to ensure best practice is achieved. The focus will be related to 0-19 School Nursing practices but occasionally some of the developments involve multi-professional initiatives, where there is integrated service across statutory organisation/voluntary colleagues. The post holder will also be responsible for the provision of an effective and robust Continued Professional and Practice Development (CPPD) system for registered SCPHNs, nurses and non–registered nurses across the service. This will also include the identification, development delivery and management of a range of support systems as well as education and training initiatives.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate effective methods of change management and be confident in delivering educational initiatives to support the new commissioned contract focusing on School Nursing delivery.
• To work with 0-19 Operational Leads/Team Leads/Preceptors/SCPTs to agree and develop induction and preceptorship plans for newly recruited Band 5, Band 6, Band 7 registered staff and Community Nursery Nurses and Clinical Assistants.
• 20% of the role will remain clinically hands on.
• To organise regular ‘Learning together’ forums which is part teaching session and part action learning set.
• Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the early intervention team.
• Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the early intervention process.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• To supervise pre and post registration students.
• Support transformation of school nursing in coproducing with service user, stakeholders and partners.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
· To support with leading on the development and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme ensuring local, wider Trust and national agendas are acknowledged, working closely with clinical leaders and their teams to ensure that nursing practice reflects current clinical developments, is evidence based and standards of care are met and monitored.
To support the embedding of the DOH Your Welcome
To support with the recruitment of Specialist Practitioner students, working closely with University Course Directors and Practice Experience Facilitator.
To support the Practice Experience Facilitator to the train new Practice Assessors and Supervisors.
To take a lead role for the Service in developing training needs analysis.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025