Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Job overview

Our Specialist Community Public Health Nurses - either school nurses or health visitors wishing to transition, lead and line manage School Staff Nurses and Assistant Practitioners, to deliver a range of interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and their families in East Sussex to:

• support resilience and wellbeing • improve health behaviours and reducing risk taking • support healthy lifestyles • support vulnerable young people and improving health inequalities • support complex and additional health and wellbeing needs • promote self-care and improving health literacy The nature of their work requires clinical input and effective leadership as well as good project management skills.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the East Sussex School Health Team you will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in accordance with national and local strategy/guidance.

A key part of your role will be to complete Health needs assessments, to support the identification of any unmet health needs and offer brief interventions and packages of care in line with evidence-based practice.

You will work in partnership with partner agencies in the identification and protection of vulnerable children and contribute to the development of care plans, working in accordance with local and professional guidelines.

This role requires you to undertake regulated activities to both children and adults.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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