An exciting opportunity has become available for a band 5 staff nurse to work within the Health Visiting team. As a transfer in nurse, you will complete visits to children and families within the Preston area. You will assess health needs, give advice and support on local services and where appropriate complete some aspects of the Healthy Child Programme. As part of the role, you will also be expected to do one day of your working week completing duty for the health visitor service, processing health information and giving help and advice over the telephone, you will also be required to facilitate some Bump , Birth and Beyond classes which requires occasional evening work
Base
The area you will cover will predominately be the Preston area, but you may be required to work in other areas according to the needs of the service. For the duty aspect of the role, you may work from home or the nearest base.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 5 Staff Nurse you’ll be part of our valued team at our Lancashire 0-19 service.
You will feel valued as a Transfer in Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Band 5 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
Completing transfer in visits to new families who have moved into the local area, with the exception of families requiring a New Birth Visit or those with a targetted level of need and assessed as Universal Partnership Plus.
Completing certain aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, including development checks
Complete newborn screening blood spot checks for transfers in under the age of one as required
To visit children and families who have moved into the area within a set timescale
Ability to recognise health needs for individual clients and situations in relation to the health of children, young people, individuals and families, sometimes in complex situations, identifying situations where referral for support from SCPHN is necessary
Support the SCPHN to identify, prioritise and implement programmes of support in response to the public health needs of a given population
Offer advice and support to children, young people and families in accordance with evidence-based practice, including utilising the Solihull parenting approach
The Ideal CandidateEssential
Registered Nurse (RN) & NMC Registration.
Appraisal and Personal Development Planning
Valid UK Driving Licence.
Daily access to a car in order to carry out duties of the post
Understand the limits and concepts of confidentiality and principles of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts.
Experience of health promotion/ public health activities
Experience of working as part of a team
Ability to take full responsibility for workload.
A flexible approach to meet client/service needs.
Ability to act independently as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Able to maintain factual, consistent, accurate, contemporaneous, comprehensive records.
Have an awareness of child protection
Able to ensure quality of care through contribution to audit and research.
Able to design, record and implement specific action plans in partnership with child/family and client.
Ability to demonstrate good written and oral communication skills and to effectively communicate with all disciplines and agencies.
IT literate, ability to utilise local and web based software and applications.
A positive commitment to maintaining and updating as appropriate
Professional and clinical skills, attitude and knowledge.
Recognises own responsibility for educating students, peers and colleagues
Desirable
Experience in facilitating group work
Experience of innovative practice.
Experience of first line staff management.
Evidence of undertaking leadership course/qualification.
Experience of working closely with team members and external parties to review patient care and make recommendations for improved service delivery.
Experience of effectively appraising and supervising team members and able to ensure that professional needs of staff are identified.
Experience of working with Safeguarding/Child Protection issues
Other requirements: Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
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.
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