School Nurse - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Job overview

Are you a SCPHN School Nurse (or due to qualify soon) who is highly motivated with excellent team working and communication skills? If so then we would love you to come and join us!

We are currently expanding our School Nursing Service as part of our implementation of a new model of delivery and are recruiting to a School Nurse post.  Our new model incorporates the development of new ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse and growing population. Please contact us for a discussion about our plans and what we can offer each other. We would also like to hear from you if you are SCPHN School Nurse Student due to qualify. We actively encourage any applicants to come and meet the management team and 0-19 colleagues.

This is a year-round post working a minimum 30 hours per week between 9am-5pm.

Previous applicants within the last 3 months need Not apply.

Main duties of the job

Central and North West London NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.

• Maintain a family-centred public health approach as a framework for identifying and delivering health care interventions and key public health messages.
• Be pro-active in multi-agency networking and collaboration to improve health outcomes for children, young people and their families.
• Reflect a service based on reducing health inequalities.
• Offer School Nurse expertise to clients within a community setting, acting as an advocate for the school age child.
• Undertake child / family assessments and agree programme of child health screening and health promotion activity.
• Carry out specific health and developmental screening where identified, or delegate responsibility where appropriate to other team members.
• Responsibility / accountability for a  caseload whilst overseeing and supporting other  staff members.
• Delegation of workload from caseload where appropriate, whilst retaining oversight of cases and agreed identified actions.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner taking responsibility for care given to children, young people and families but also work as team members.
• Support and develop skill mixed staff within an integrated team.
• Prioritise workload to ensure all tasks are actioned in a timely fashion according to level of need.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Undertake complex holistic health needs assessments of children and young people in a wide range of environments and across a broad population spectrum. Interpret, analyse and collate complex information, liaising with children, young people and families and other services/agencies as appropriate.
• To inform and implement a plan of care using evidence-based criterion to rationalise professional decisions and actions. Monitor progress and adapt plans to maximize health benefits for clients.
• Provide skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures.
• Help others e.g. children, young people, parents and carers to identify their own level of knowledge and skill and offer support, information and advice to enable them to access services and adopt healthy lifestyles.
• Using excellent communication skills, communicate effectively with children young people, parents / carers and other professionals.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive record keeping in line with NMC guidance and Trust policy.
• Have knowledge of Information Sharing and Assessment protocols and ability to identify and discern relevance of information to be shared to promote the safety of children.
• If a non-medical prescriber, diagnosis of clinical need to include patient history, clinical assessment, including physical examination where appropriate.

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