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An exciting opportunity is available to join the Brighton and Hove School Nurse Team.
We are looking for an experienced School Nurse to join us to act as a specialist resource for the Healthy Child Programme team to help us deliver our service to a defined caseload of children and young people.
You will join our leadership team and provide expertise and knowledge in implementing, monitoring and evaluating effective interventions to ensure needs are met.
Main duties of the job
To manage and maintain a clinical caseload of children with specific need , providing a service in a variety of settings.
Act as a clinical expert in transient families, health and cultural issues; developing, leading and participating in training, education and orientation programmes for staff, students and others as required.
Works with the Service Manager to ensure appropriate utilisation of allocated resources and works within budget restraints to deliver the service.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provides, supervises, and supports the delivery of an effective programme of childhood developmental surveillance and health promotion activities both within the organisation and with community partners
Ensures effective liaison and communication with other professional groups within the Trust and outside agencies, acts as a health information source and works in partnership in the interests of clients.
Identifies community health needs in partnership with health and other agencies, to jointly develop and deliver appropriate services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered SCPHN
- Expereince of working with children out of schools and vulnerable families with schools aged children
- experience of children educated other than at school and transient families
Desirable
- Leadership
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working with children educated out of school and vulnerable families with school aged children.
- Demonstrable experience of leading innovation and development/service improvement
- Demonstrate teaching experience skills and knowledge
- To understand, identify and act upon changing needs of asylum seeking and refugee children and their families
Desirable
- Knowledge and ability to maintain robust clinical governance to deliver safe, high-quality service
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to respond appropriately to children and their families in need and/or children at risk in accordance safeguarding guidance
- To be able to generate reports to enable the wider system to understand the demand, activity and outcomes for the children and families you are working with
- The ability to deliver sensitive information to families in a way that considers their level of understanding
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Poynings Building, Brighton General Hospital,
Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
