Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (specialist School Nurses) work within Wiltshire Children’s Community Services to lead and deliver a high quality, pro-active service for children and the 5-19 Healthy Child Program.  The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes
Package DescriptionAs a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nurse , you’ll be part of our valued team at Salisbury and Amesbury.

You will feel valued as a School Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesMain Responsibilities

Public health lead for the school nursing skill mixed team within the defined school community area, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
To undertake population health needs assessment to identify local need and collaborate with key partners to address identified Public Health needs
Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with schools and other key partners.
Provide school age children/young people with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.
To contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and young people and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
Exhibiting excellence in and role modelling the standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice for the supervision of learners and colleagues.
Developing the school nursing service in the defined locality through proactive leadership and innovative practice to meet health needs.

Leadership and Communication skills

You will develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other School Nurses through project development and further training.
Use evidence based practice to develop and maintain high quality and cost effective standards for Specialist Public Health Nurse/school nursing practice.
Help provide management and leadership to school health support workers and school staff nurses including allocation meetings, delegation of schools and caseload and caseload monitoring and support.
Plan, develop and co-ordinate the Public Health agenda and interventions for the school age population in the locality area for the skill mix team to deliver.
Act as a champion and facilitate change within the school nursing strategy and participate in teams to develop practice and pathways to improve care processes

Professional responsibilities

You will adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and be conversant with NMC Advisory papers.  To maintain professional registration.
Participate in the professional supervision of team members (in conjunction with Managers and Team Leaders) to ensure that standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed through developmental action plans, which are monitored and evaluated.
To participate in mandatory training and to take responsibility for identifying own professional development needs and accessing appropriate training in discussion with line manager.
Help with the orientation and induction of colleagues, visitors and other staff.
Participate in training programs for pre-registration nurses, SCPHN and others on community placements.
You will participate in clinical supervision and facilitate the same for other members of the school nursing team.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description. 
The Ideal CandidateEssential

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
Current NMC registration on third part of the register
Experience in leading and working in school nursing teams
Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and young people
Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
Working knowledge of the tools and programs used in school nursing to improve outcomes for children.
Car driver and use of car for work
Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems

Desirable

Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
Experience in line management and developing teams
Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK\'s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We\'re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website\'s privacy policy.