Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse

Job overview

The Westmorland & Furness 0-19 Team are inviting you to apply for the Specialist Public Community Public Health Nurse role where you will play a fundamental role in the development of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme, promoting childhood development, safeguarding children and young people, building community resilience and preventing social exclusion and deprivation, tackling important public health issues.

Main duties of the job

To plan, deliver and evaluate an efficient and cost effective Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Service for an identified  school aged population within a defined geographical locality and School cluster. To provide line management and leadership within the  5-19 skill mixed team and be pro-active in delivering the National and Public Health agendas in response to identified health and social need,  to work in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To  be  responsible  for leading and delivering  the  Healthy  Child  Programme against the 6 early and school aged years high impact areas, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach – building community capacity, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus.  To be professionally accountable and responsible and adhere to and apply the NMC standard.

Making Every Contact Count to enable the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information.

Work with parents and children to promote the physical, emotional and social development of pre-school and school aged children.  To apply the principles of the Solihull approach in all work undertaken with children, young people and families.

The post holder will ensure inter-agency/professional partnership working between   services, statutory and voluntary organisations to facilitate integrated approaches in meeting the needs of children.

Working in an integrated way partnership with local communities to build community capacity; utilising strength-based approaches.

Hold a caseload of families with school aged children and young people, providing specialist evidence based advice, information and support to the population served, team members and relevant agencies. Lead and Deliver the Healthy Child Programme with a drive towards reducing the gap in health and social health inequalities.