Community Staff Nurse 0-19 Service

Job overview

Community Staff Nurse 0-19 Universal Children’s Services

A Band  5 vacancy  for a Registered Nurse/Childrens Nurse to work as a Community Staff Nurse within  Thurrock and join the Healthy Families service working alongside the Health Visiting and School Health teams, with the opportunity to apply for the specialist community public health nursing course in health visiting or school nursing.

Do you want to develop in a progressive, innovative environment, and enhance your career? If so we want you to join Thurrocks Healthy Families service team and find out all about the possibilities that can be opened up for you.

We have a very innovative Team in Thurrock and we have developed a  very robust partnership working across the Children's services to ensure we deliver the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme and quality healthcare services to improve the health and well-being within the diverse community which we serve.

Our vision for delivering the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with key stakeholders is to ensure that every child in Thurrock has the very best start in life and grow  up to be happy, safe, healthy, confident and resilient.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse/children's Nurse; have proven experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings with a positive attitude towards actively engaging difficult to reach client populations. You will have experience of working closely with families and an understanding of the whole family approach to care.

If you are interested in working for us, have good clinical and leadership skills, excellent motivational skills as well as an understanding of key policies relating to children; if you are a forward thinking individual with the ability to work within a team and on your own initiative we want to hear from you.

In return for your commitment, we can offer you strong professional leadership and support. We offer a robust continuous professional development plan opening a gateway for further career progression. There is a robust system of managerial, clinical and safeguarding supervision in place to support all staff.

If you are interested in working for us, and can demonstrate that you are a forward thinking individual, working in a solution focused way with the ability to work within a team and on your own initiative we want to hear from you.

Work in accordance to the Locality commissioned service specification, under the delegation of the  Health Visiting and School Nursing team to ensure that the full-service provision is attained.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To support the delivery of 0-19 Universal Services in the delivery of the  Healthy Child Programme
• To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-19 Universal Services Team
• To participate in Health Education programs and health promotion activities on the multi-disciplinary basis supporting immunisations and infant feeding support to increase initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.

Certificates of Sponsorship Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles.  Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

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