Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting

Job overview

Ready to use your nursing skills to support children, young people and families in your community?

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Public Health Staff Nurse to work with Health Visitors within the integrated 0-19 Children's and Young People Public Health Service in the West Locality, based in Witney.

This includes Carterton, Burford and surrounding villages, with an expectation to work across the locality. The new service brings together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing and the Family Nurse Partnership, delivering the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to provide an innovative, high-quality service that helps children, young people and families thrive.

Health Visitors, Community Public Health Nurses and Community Public Health Associates work with children up to 8 years of age where there are known concerns or vulnerabilities. The team provides health-related episodes of care, supporting areas such as behaviour, diet, sleep and school readiness.

The role offers opportunities to engage in service workstreams that support professional and leadership development, alongside delivering community-based health promotion activities and supporting Oxfordshire's Young Parents Pathway with Specialist Practitioners.

Main duties of the job

• Within the caseload, and as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, the post holder will contribute to the safe and effective delivery of the 0-19 service.
• You will be based within the locality and work with 0-19 teams, supporting countywide work where needed for children aged 0-8 years. The role involves working in partnership with children, young people, families, primary care, schools, statutory and voluntary services, and other agencies to facilitate health-enhancing activities and improve outcomes.
• Deliver services to children and families within homes and community settings.
• Clinical activities will include assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating family-focused care under the delegation of a SCPHN Health Visitor/School Health Nurse and partnering with agencies.
• Undertake Healthy Child Programme developmental and transitional assessments, and plan, deliver and evaluate public health initiatives through community-based health promotion activities.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies and actively engage, under SCPHN supervision, in safeguarding processes, including Early Help assessments and Team Around the Family processes.
• Work in partnership with other agencies and develop, participate in and maintain interagency networks.

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

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.