School Health Staff Nurse

Job overview

Sandwell School Health Nursing team are innovative, unique and motivated health professionals.  The team engages with children, young people, families and communities in addressing the public health agenda.

This is a post giving nurses the opportunity to work in a community setting and develop their community knowledge and skills. Working within and supporting the corporate team within School Health Nursing Service. Working within a team to provide a health promotion and illness prevention service to a local population, contributing to health needs assessments with individuals, families and groups.

Main duties of the job

-The post holder will ensure safe delegation of work to support staff and ensure delegated work is completed to a satisfactory standard.

-Reporting back to the Team Leader any identified concerns and managing own time and prioritising own workload.

To work as a member of the School Nursing team participating in health needs assessments as directed by the School Nurse Specialist Practitioner.

-To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.

-Working within the realm of NMC ‘The Code’ (2018) and working to the standards set in The Code (NMC, 2018).

-To work as a member of the School Nursing team participating in the holistic health needs assessments as directed by the School Nurse Specialist Practitioner.

-To develop and maintain clear communication systems with clients and their relatives, professionals and other organisations both statutory and voluntary and the wider community. This may require negotiating/ persuasive skills, presentation skills as well as counselling skills including empathy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a member of the Sandwell school nursing team you will be expected to:

• Work as a member of the School Nursing team participating in health needs assessments as directed by the School Nurse Specialist Practitioner.
• Engage in multi-agency working as appropriate. Working in partnership with clients and other professionals to deliver evidence based care evaluating the care given and sharing the outcome with the delegating School Nurse Specialist Practitioner.
• To take an active part in delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
• To take an active role in screening programmes.
• To take an active role in Public Health Programmes.
• To carry out home visits, as directed.
• To attend and participate in staff meetings and other meetings as directed.
• To participate in safeguarding supervision and clinical supervision as directed by SWB policies.
• To mentor and assess pre-registration student nurses on placement with the team.
• To support the induction of new members of staff in the team
• To participate in the setting of objectives through the PDR process
• To work to SWB policies, protocols, procedures and guidelines.
• To participate in clinical audit as required.
• Participate in drop-in clinics for children, parents or school staff.

Please see the role JD for a full description of responsibilities