Band
Band 5
Salary
£29,970 to £36,483
Job responsibilities
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 peoples 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.
Qualifications and Experience
- RN or RM Current NMC Registration.
- Demonstrable evidence of personal and professional development.
- Demonstrable evidence of working with babies, children and young people
- Placement in school nursing or health visiting service within training
- Demonstratable experience of working with babies, children and young people who have been subject to safeguarding support
Skills
- Understands responsibility of working within teams
- Able to demonstrate clinically effective practice.
- Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice
- Understands and can demonstrate accountability.
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal with children, families and others.
- Able to establish and maintain key relationships with colleagues and other disciplines both internally and externally.
- Ability to make timely, sound clinical judgments and assessments to deliver high quality client care.
Knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy relating to children’s services
- Up-to-date knowledge of current Government and Local initiatives and how these translate into practice
- Demonstrates up-to-date evidence Community Nursing/Public Health.
- Knowledge of child health and development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).