SCPHN - School Nurse

Job overview

The School Nursing service is part of the wider Children’s Health services which provides Community based services for children and young people (aged 5-19 years). The School Nursing service works with stakeholders across a number of settings and organisations to lead delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (5-19) to improve child health outcomes and ensure that families at risk are identified at the earliest opportunity.

The overarching aim of public health services for children (5-19) is to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of children and families. The School Nursing service is a workforce of specialist community public health nurses who provide expert advice, support and interventions to families with children and Young People between 5-19 years and help empower young people to make decisions that affect their future health and wellbeing. This service is led by school nurses and supported by a skill mix team. The service is central to delivering public health outcomes for children.

The SCPHN is responsible for leading, developing, planning, delivering and evaluating a range of interventions for children and their families providing a public health based service that contributes to improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Walsall through partnership working.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership support and professional direction to the children, young people and families public health team ensuring that high standards and safe levels of intervention which are evidenced base are delivered within a corporate caseload.

To work autonomously within a multi-agency arena to enable children & Young People (predominantly pre-school age) to reach their full potential (physically emotionally and socially) through education and healthy lifestyles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To use public health knowledge and expertise to provide high quality, safe evidenced based care and interventions to the children, young people and their families

To provide clinical leadership support and professional direction within the skilled mixed team ensuring that high standards and safe levels of care are provided to children and young people

Work with partner agencies to identify and respond to the public health and wellbeing needs of children and young people within locality areas and borough wide to determine the priorities for action e.g. work with in Early Help localities, GP PCN’s. Take into account local and national priorities

To lead on designated aspects of the HCP 5-19 and high impact areas developing, planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of work, working collaboratively with other health professionals and partner agencies, including the voluntary sector. This includes attendance at partnership meetings and dissemination of information to service.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-agency arena, applying your knowledge and expertise in health and wellbeing to enable children & young people to reach their full potential (physically emotionally and socially). This includes contributing to e.g. child protection procedures, early help support and looked after children

Within the scope of professional practice and using appropriate frameworks, take lead responsibility to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the health needs of specific groups of children e.g., looked after children, children with medical needs, children in need of safeguarding or early help. In partnership with the child, young person and parents/carers agree care plans to improve health and wellbeing

• To develop, implement and evaluate Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education pupil’s sessions for education settings. To develop, implement and evaluate health education and promotion sessions for parents and carers to support them to promote their child’s health & wellbeing To develop, implement and evaluate training packages for education staff and staff in partner agencies to support children and young people’s health & wellbeing e.g. medical needs training, mental health training, RSE training.

Effectively manage a caseload and where appropriate, delegate care to non-registrants and maintain professional accountability for supervising that care

Promote team working at all times and act up, as directed in the absence of the clinical team leader. Provide line management duties for junior members of staff within your locality team e.g. 1-1’s, PDR, caseload supervision.

• Provide care in a range of variety of settings to include schools, client’s home, clinics, community venues or other settings

To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate quality standards e.g. SOP’s with School Nursing Practice, utilising the clinical governance framework to support the provision of a high quality, safe care. This includes contribution to reports for service monitoring e.g. commissioner reporting.

Provide pre, post registration student nurses and staff requiring induction, mentorship and preceptorship with relevant and suitable experiences within children, young people and families public health service, to include teaching and assessment throughout their placement.