Family Health Advisor

3 weeks ago


Islington, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

Family Health Advisor/Nursery Nurse
Full time/Term time contract

Are you a Nursery Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to work within an integrated service in Islington, supporting families and their children aged between 0-11 years through the delivery of services in schools, children centres, homes, clinics and green spaces.

Islington School Nurses are a key partner delivering the 5-19 services in the local area, offering support and advice to families in the Islington area. We have a vacancy for a Family Health Advisor (Nursery Nurse) with an NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/CACHE Level 3 Diploma or equivalent.

You will be working as a member of the school nursing team and alongside both health and early years staff in schools. Your role is to support the school nurse liaison with school nurseries contacts with a particular focus on the 3-6 year old cohort, delivering agreed interventions and supporting engagement in the wealth of activities on offer including family kitchen, minor illness, oral health and much more.

You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme across schools in Islington. Will be developing relationships with school nurseries to enhance the school readiness programme.

You would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills with colleagues and partners as well as families and children. Good computer skills are essential for the role, and you will be expected to work with the local electronic patient record system.

There are lots of opportunities to participate in activities and training such as Forest School; Family Kitchen; school readiness programme, asthma programme as well as facilitating groups such as toilet training, continence assessments and parents coffee mornings. All of this work is managed within a framework which explains the training and supervision on offer starting with the induction programme and a six month probation which applies to all staff at Whittington.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.


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