Senior Staff Nurse Strengthening Families Team HCP 0-19 and FFCP | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 23 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 April 2026 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS3 1LZ |
| Company: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7778980/407-COMMUNITY-7778980 |
Summary
The School Nursing, Health Visiting and Teenage Pregnancy form the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 which deliver public health services to babies, children and young people and their families. The overarching aim of public health services is to prevent, promote and protect the health and wellbeing of children and families and aligns with the Families First for Children Principles. They work with stakeholders across a number of settings and organisations to lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (5-19) to improve child health outcomes and ensure that families in need of help or at risk are identified at the earliest opportunity.
As a senior 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 Band 7 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 and Family Help FFCP pathway.
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS
To use public health knowledge and expertise to providehigh quality, safe evidenced based care and interventions to the children, young people and their families utilising the FFCP Family Help pathways.
To provide clinical leadership support and professional direction within the skilled mixed team ensuring that high standards and safe levels of care are provided to children and young people via the Family Help pathways being adopted within practice.
Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-agency arena, applying your knowledge and expertise in health and wellbeing to enable children & young people to reach their full potential (physically emotionally and socially). This includes contributing to child protection procedures, Family help support and children in care
Within the scope of professional practice and using appropriate frameworks, take lead responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the health needs of specific groups of children e.g. children on child protection plans, child in need plans and family help plans to employ the use of the ‘Our Family’ Family Help assessment framework. In partnership with the child, young person and parents/carers agree care plans to improve health and wellbeing
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Effectively manage a caseload and where appropriate, delegate care to non-registrants and maintain professional accountability for supervising that care
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 and ‘Our Family’ Family Help 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.
Take on the role of lead professional to coordinate delivery of care plans for children and young people e.g. Children on Family Help plans.
Promote team working at all times and act up, as directed in the absence of the clinical team leader. Provide line management duties for junior members of staff within your locality team e.g. 1-1’s, PDR, caseload supervision.
To develop in conjunction with Deputy professional Lead, implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards e.g. SOP’s with HCP 0-19 Practice, utilising the clinical governance framework to support the provision of a high quality, safe care. This includes contribution to reports for service monitoring e.g. commissioner reporting.
Provide pre, post registration student nurses and staff requiring induction, mentorship and preceptorship with relevant and suitable experiences within children, young people and family’s public health service, to include teaching and assessment throughout their placement.
Participate in the continued development of the children, young people and family’s public health service, to include meetings and close liaison with clinical lead and to work in partnership with other health care professionals within the Trust and other agencies.
Take responsibility for and effectively manage a lead area of the Health Child Programme, as agreed with the Professional Lead.
Represent the service on a range of multi professional forum as requested and agreed with the Professional Lead
In the absence of the clinical chair team meetings to cascade information and plan delivery of the team workload in the absence of the clinical lead
Constructively participate in nursing, clinical and managerial meetings as required
Monitor and report to the clinical lead regarding client and staff safety, accidents and reportable incidents as necessary in line with risk management local and national policies
Contribute to the planning of staff training, both mandatory and for professional development, in conjunction with clinical lead and FFCP Health coordinator.
In consultation with clinical lead and FFCP health coordinator influence and manage change within the service utilising research/evidence-based practice and audit mechanisms.
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 and FFCP leader 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.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026