Community Nursery Nurse

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to provide targeted interventions to individual families, as directed and supervised by Health Visitors, through a referral system in line with agreed evidence-based pathways.

• Undertake one to one or group sessions e.g., introduction to solids, accident prevention and support health promotion activities as delegated within team.
• To support the delivery of a programme of group sessions within the family hubs and provides equity across each area.
• Carrying our universal health reviews
• To support and work along with health visitor in child health clinics.

Main duties of the job

• To make an active contribution to the Enhanced Health Visiting Service (EHVS)
• To plan own delegated workload from the Health Visitor, who will oversee work.
• To contribute to the health assessment of children (aged under 5) and their families where the work is predictable.
• Developing, implementing, and evaluating programmes including health promotion of care.
• To work with the EHVS and all other partner organisations, with responsibility for proving quality services which promote the health and wellbeing of a designated population.
• To undertake planned and unplanned work streams to support parents with a child’s behaviour and boundaries setting, introduction to solids, sleep, play and toileting etc.
• To act as a named link professional for early years settings with the support/overseeing of a senior health visitor
• To facilitate and carry out universal health reviews for example 27 months reviews
• Supporting targeted families with specific areas under the support and delegation of health visitor for example toilet training, promote accident prevention, play and stimulation, introduction to solids etc.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.