Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor/School Nurse) Cringleford, England
Job description
A NEW HIRE BONUS - £1500 - is currently being offered to candidates who are successfully recruited to this role.
We have posts for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses or Family Public Health Nurses in our Just One Number team located in Cringleford, Norfolk
The successful applicants will work as part of a dynamic team leading delivery of our Universal Offer. This will include receiving clinical referrals into the service, offering brief clinical interventions to support our families, signposting and supporting onward referrals and completion of in depth initial assessments.
The skills of analysis and action planning are vital to ensure our service users have their referral managed by the most appropriate team/pathway in a timely way where ongoing intervention is required. Liaison with other agencies is also a key part of the role and will include consultations with professionals from other agencies as well as triage of clinical information received into the team.
To work as part of the Just One Number 0-19 HCP team, based in Cringleford, To identify the health needs of children and young people, their families and the community and contribute to developing a strategy to address individual identified needs as well as those needs within the community.
To use knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care. Clinical triage of new referrals and clinical information. Supporting clients/service users using telephone and digital support to undertake assessments. Delegation of cases within the team or transfer out to locality/specialist pathway, signposting or supporting onward referrals. Service users will be supported by the use of a range of different digital technologies including the Just One Norfolk website and our text messaging services .
To enhance self-care skills for children, young people, and their families.
Partnership working to support effective practice.
To plan, deliver and evaluate evidence based health promotion programmes with the wider 0-19 HCP service
To link practice with local and national guidance and policy and ensure the delivery of evidence based care in line with current performance indicators.
To support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or at risk. To adhere to current Safeguarding Procedures, and participate in child protection processes as required.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England
that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly
in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a
leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and
development.
As part of the Healthy Child Programme, Specialist community public health nurses and Family
Public Health Nurses work within a defined locality or within our Single Point of Access, assessing
need, delegating work within the team, implementing planned programmes of care and evaluating
care delivered. Their role is to provide a child centred, inclusive, holistic and accessible Public
Health programme to children, their families and communities, establishing links with the Early
Childhood and Family Service, Early Years Settings, Early Help, other Health providers,
communities and agencies (Education, School Services, Health and Voluntary organisations).
They promote the physical and emotional well-being of children, and young people, supporting
them to establish good health now and in the future. They promote early intervention, health
promotion, advocacy, empowerment, inclusion and the reduction of health inequalities to ensure
children are supported to reach their full potential
