SEHSCT Family Nurse Band 7

Job details

• Branch: Trustwide (SEHSCT)
• Location: Trustwide (SEHSCT)
• Salary: Band 7 (£47,810 - £54,710)
• Contract Type: To create a waiting list
• Opening Date: 29/05/26
• Closes: Fri, 12 June 2026 @ 5:30 PM
• Interview Dates: 23/06/26 and 24/06/26

Notes

There is currently one 37.5 permanent post and one 30 hours permanent post available however a waiting list will be compiled for any similar Trustwide Permanent / Temporary / Full-Time / Part-Time posts that may arise over the next 6 months

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

Family Nurse

BAND

DIRECTORATE

INITIAL LOCATION

Band 7

Children’s Services

Trustwide

REPORTS TO

Family Nurse Supervisor

ACCOUNTABLE TO

FLEXIBLE WORKING PROVISIONS AVAILABLE

Assistant Director Child Health

Full-time working, Fixed working patterns, Part-time working

A Trust wide waiting list will be compiled for any similar Permanent / Temporary / Full-Time / Part-Time posts that may arise over the next 6 months

JOB SUMMARY

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a licensed programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged families and children and prevent social exclusion.

This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive home visiting programme to vulnerable young women who are expecting their first baby. Post holders will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme

This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.

KEY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.

2. To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achieve the following;

improve the outcomes of pregnancy,

improve children's health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and

to improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work

3. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.

4. To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.

5. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.

6. To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.

Professional

Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model.

Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.

Utilise specialised knowledge acquired through FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.

Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.

Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.

Using the six FNP domains as a framework, use professional and clinical judgment to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.

Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.

Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.

Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients' care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating UNOCINI and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required.

At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.

Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting.

Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.

Contribute to the Healthy Child Healthy Futures Programme, including professional assessments of children's growth, development and language skills.

Positively and effectively represents the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.

Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP supervisor where appropriate.

Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring trusts to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.

Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.

Completes full, accurate and contemporaneous records.

To be aware of and abide by trust policies, procedure, standards and quality assurance initiatives.

Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.

Complete accurate data collection for service development, monitoring and improvements in programme delivery.

Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local and regional improvement measures.

Contribute to the development of local procedures for FNP, taking into account regional FNP guidance.

Administrative

Maintain own caseload files and have standard keyboard skills.

Input data onto Encompass and produce individual reports relating to own caseload to monitor programme fidelity.

Use computer software to create reports for other professionals and safeguarding meetings as required.

Utilise FNP resources to plan for visits and develop packages of material for these.

Possess good IT skills to meet the needs of the post.

Team

The Family Nurse will

1. Participate fully in team activities, collaborating with others to achieve team goals and quality improvement measures.

2. Participates in quality improvement efforts with colleagues.

3. Audit own performance and participate in performance review with supervisor.

4. Elicit and consider differing viewpoints when analysing complex issues.

5. Recognise the accomplishments of team colleagues.

6. Support a safe environment for open discussion.

7. Prioritise work, manages time effectively by utilising individual skills knowledge and competencies.

8. Provide mentoring for new team members, advice to colleagues and to team Quality Support Officer as required.

Professional Development

The Family Nurse will

1. Assess own learning needs and agrees strategies to meet them with the supervisor.

2. Actively engage in skill building to meet all competency requirements.

3. Successfully complete the learning programme required to deliver the FNP programme, including team based and ace to face elements.

4. Undertake additional professional development as required.

5. Prepare for and engage in weekly individual supervision.

6. Undertake joint home visits with supervisor every four months.

7. Attend and participates in two-weekly case discussions and two-weekly staff meetings.

8. Keep informed of current healthcare and parenting developments to provide high quality home visiting services.

Clinical Governance / Quality

The Family Nurse will

1. Maintain professional registration and revalidation in line with NMC requirements.

2. Participate in individual clinical/safeguarding supervision and preceptorship, mentorship with the team.

3. Support and facilitate the training and development of team members who need to improve service delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency.

4. Maintain contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and Trust policies.

5. Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice.

6. Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.

7. Report any concerns regarding professional practice to the supervisor or an appropriate other.

8. Participate in investigation, problem solving and remedial action where necessary.

9. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk utilising expertise within or outside the organisation when needed.

10. Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements with particular attention to lone worker and manual handling policies.

Most challenging part of the job

1. Recruiting, engaging and retaining families on the FNP programme and following programme requirements.

2. Effectively managing the emotional intensity of the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and client.

3. Work within complex family circumstances, including situations of safeguarding children.

4. Being able to learn and assimilate a large volume of highly complex new information in a very short space of time and have the necessary skills to quickly apply new knowledge and skills to the practical work environment.

5. Maintain the interest and enthusiasm of the recruited families on the FNP Programme over a two and a half year period.

6. Work with a structured programme whilst adapting to the requirements of each individual client and visit.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Managerial Responsibilities

Provides timely and accurate data to monitor programme fidelity and for research purposes.

Maintain own caseload files and have standard keyboard skills.

Uses computer software to create reports for other professionals and safeguarding meetings as required.

Mentoring, Teamwork and Collaboration.

Participates in quality improvement efforts with colleagues.

Audits own performance and participates in performance review with supervisor.

Elicits and considers differing viewpoints when analysing complex issues.

Recognises the accomplishments of team colleagues.

Supports a safe environment for open discussion.

Prioritises work, manages time effectively by utilising individual skills, knowledge and competencies.

Provides mentoring for new team members, advice to colleagues and to admin worker as required.

The post holder will promote and support effective team working, fostering a culture of openness and transparency. The post holder will ensure that they take all concerns raised with them seriously and act in accordance with the South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust’s Raising Concerns Policy and their professional code of conduct, where applicable.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to

Ensure the Organisation’s policy on equality of opportunity is promoted through his/her own actions and those of any staff for whom he/she has responsibility.

Co-operate fully with the implementation of The Organisation's Health and Safety arrangements, reporting any accidents/incidents/equipment defects to his/her manager, and maintaining a clean, uncluttered and safe environment for patients/clients, members of the public and staff.

Adhere at all times to all Trust policies/codes of conduct, including for example

Smoke Free policy

IT Security Policy and Code of Conduct

standards of attendance, appearance and behaviour

Contribute to ensuring the highest standards of environmental cleanliness within your designated area of work.

Co-operate fully with regard to Trust policies and procedures relating to infection prevention and control.

Take responsibility to minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible. This will include recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel.

All employees of the Organisation are legally responsible for all records held, created or used as part of their business within the South Eastern H&SC Trust including patients/clients, corporate and administrative records whether paper-based or electronic and also including emails. All such records are public records and are accessible to the general public, with limited exceptions, under the Freedom of Information act 2000 the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Employees are required to be conversant with the South Eastern H&SC Trust policy and procedures on records management and to seek advice if in doubt.

Take responsibility for his/her own ongoing learning and development, in order to maximise his/her potential and continue to meet the demands of the post.

Represent The Organisation’s commitment to providing the highest possible standard of service to patients/clients and members of the public, by treating all those with whom he/she comes into contact in the course of work, in a pleasant, courteous and respectful manner.

This Job Description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.

It is a standard condition that all Trust staff may be required to serve at any location within The Organisation's area, as needs of the service demand.

eHealth

The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust has invested in eHealth to deliver better, faster, safer care to our community and is committed to supporting staff to utilise associated information systems that directly and indirectly inform care. Trust staff are therefore required to commit sufficient time to ensure that they acquire and/or retain the core technology skills required to support their role.

Personal and Public Involvement (PPI)

Staff members are expected to involve patients, clients, carers and the wider community were relevant, in developing, planning and delivering our services in a meaningful and effective way, as part of the Trust’s ongoing commitment to Personal and Public Involvement (PPI).

Please use the link below to access the PPI standards leaflet for further information.

http://www.publichealth.hscni.net/sites/default/files/PPI_leaflet.pdf

May 2026

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE Family Nurse

DEPARTMENT / DIRECTORATE Family Nurse Partnership,

Children’s Services

SALARY Band 7

HOURS Full time and part time

Ref No: LEAD May 2026

A Trust wide waiting list will be compiled for any similar Permanent / Temporary / Full-Time / Part-Time posts that may arise over the next 6 months

Notes to applicants

You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria.

Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form. Please note The Organisation reserves the right to use any desirable criteria outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting. You must clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet the desirable criteria.

Proof of qualifications and/or professional registration will be required if an offer of employment is made – if you are unable to provide this, the offer may be withdrawn.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

SECTION 1: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will initially be measured at shortlisting stage although may also be further explored during the interview/selection stage. You should therefore make it clear on your application form whether or not you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is stated below.

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Experience

Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of caseload management, to include home visiting families in deprived communities.

Have significant safeguarding knowledge and be able to demonstrate at least 2 years of safeguarding children experience (to include writing/presenting reports for case conference and attending safeguarding multi-professional meetings).

Experience in delivering objectives which have led to a significant Improvement in Service.

Be available to attend ALL FNP training in Scotland / England – Dates to be confirmed.

Shortlisting by Application Form

Qualifications/ Registration

Be a Registered Nurse or Midwife on the live NMC Register.

Degree in Nursing or Health related subject or equivalent Professional Nursing /Midwifery/Health related qualification and have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in midwifery, child health or public health in a Senior Role

Shortlisting by Application Form

Other

Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment. This criteria will be waived in the case of applicants whose disability prohibits driving but who have access to a form of transport approved by The Organisation which will permit them to carry out the duties of the post.

Shortlisting by Application Form

SECTION 2: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will be measured during the interview/ selection stage:

Skills / Abilities

Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas

Willingness to undertake specialist post graduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training.

Effective communication skills to meet the needs of the post in full

Possess good IT skills to meet the needs of the post

Ability to analyse data and create reports.

Ability to work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team and with diverse groups.

Effective Planning & Organisational skills with an ability to prioritise own workload. Ability to identify solutions to problems and implement them effectively.

Ability to work to tight timescales whilst meeting targets.

Demonstrate a commitment to the provision of high quality and safe services with an ability to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Flexibility with regard to working arrangements to meet the demands of the post.

Interview

Knowledge

Knowledge of current professional issues

Knowledge and understanding of quality improvement, governance and risk management issues

Awareness of Attachment Theory, Self-efficacy theory and Human ecology theory.

Awareness of behavioural change theory and motivational interviewing.

Knowledge of parent and infant mental health.

Knowledge of the research base of FNP and replication in UK / NI.

Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents.

Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships.

Highly reflective and able to learn from experience.

Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively.

Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing.

Able to work effectively with diverse groups.

Competent computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spread sheets etc.

Interview

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

SECTION 3: these will ONLY be used where it is necessary to introduce additional job related criteria to ensure files are manageable. You should therefore make it clear on your application form how you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Experience

3 years’ experience in midwifery, child health or public health in a Senior Role

3 years’ experience of caseload management, to include home visiting families in deprived communities

3 years of safeguarding children experience (to include writing/presenting reports for case conference and attending safeguarding multi-professional meetings).

Shortlisting by Application Form

Qualifications

As part of the Recruitment & Selection process it may be necessary for The Organisation to carry out an Enhanced Disclosure Check through Access NI before any appointment to this post can be confirmed.

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Protecting and using your information

To access a copy of the Trust’s Data Protection Policy Statement SETGen482019 (5).pdf

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Successful applicants

may be required to attend for a Health Assessment

can expect to be placed at the minimum point of the pay scale, although a higher starting salary, within the range of the pay band may be available if the person appointed has experience relevant & equivalent to the post. Request for recognition of previous service with non-direct NHS/HSC organisations towards starting salary and incremental credit must be made via the Retained Recruitment team within 3 months from commencement of employment. Requests made after 3 months will not be considered.

If the successful candidate is an existing HSC employee moving to a higher band, AfC Pay on Promotion will apply.

are able to request Flexible Working from the 1st day of their employment. A number of flexible working provisions are offered by all HSC Organisations including Full-time working, Fixed working patterns, Part-time working, Flexi-time, Compressed/elongated hours, Average hours working patterns, Term-time working, Job-share or Homeworking for some or all of the working pattern, depending on the role being undertaken. Successful applicants are encouraged to discuss with their manager what Flexible Working provisions may be available in the role they are taking up, prior to commencing employment, to help them achieve a positive Work/Life Balance.

All staff are expected to display the HSC Values at all times