Family Nurse | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	26 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro-rata
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	26 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Peterborough, PE7 8FZ
Cwmni:	Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Tr
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7755600/448-CCYP-7755600

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Are you an experienced family nurse, registered nurse or midwife with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?

We are offering a 12-month secondment (30 hours per week) to be part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Family Nurse Partnership team!

We are looking for someone who is passionate about working alongside young parents to deliver this carefully designed programme, offering young parents a chance to transform their own life chances and those of their babies.

If you're passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would like to hear from you.

You must hold a first-level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda, in particular the Healthy Child Programme, possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.

Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children, and meet the requirements of the person specification.

Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (first training session May 2026)

Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 3 February 2026




The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent’s economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role.

The role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.

As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.

Peterborough & Cambridgeshire is a large county and travel around the county is an expectation of this role.

Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People’s Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon–Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of, and across teams. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children & Young People’s Health Services.

To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.

To use the programme materials and methods in the clients’ homes in order to achieve the following:
1. Improve the outcomes of pregnancy
2. Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and
3. Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education and find work.

To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.

To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.

To participate in continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme implemented with fidelity.

To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.

To be part of a 0-19 team, working within a locality leadership team to support Cambridgeshire Children & Young People’s Health Service delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard.



Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent’s economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role

Role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme

As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements

Cambridgeshire is a large County and travel around the County is an expectation of this role
Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People’s Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon–Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs.



Communication

Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to relate to young parents. To be able to build and maintain therapeutic relationships whilst also having the ability to have difficult conversations with concern and care

To be a supportive and engaged member of the team, celebrating each other’s successes, providing support and supervision, and challenging with professional curiosity where required.

To be an advocate for the programme within the wider service, to stakeholders and other professionals, maintaining the ethos of FNP core principles at all times

To be able to collate and analyse complex information from a variety of sources and communicate those verbally and in report form



People Management

You will be expected to provide leadership, training and supervision to the wider service and system

You will be responsible for mentoring the Young Parent Nursery Nurses


Research & Development Activity

You will be required to contribute to quality assurance for the trust and the national unit and to lead on Quality Improvement projects

Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal, KSF process and ongoing National Unit training


Clinical and Practice Governance

Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act

Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed, or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies

The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes

The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures

It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with the NMC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration

Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

The post holder must participate in clinical and other audits as required

Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team

Participate in Clinical & Safeguarding supervision on a regular basis

The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team


This advert closes on Monday 9 Feb 2026

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