Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

4 weeks ago

Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) to join the City North team for a 12 month fixed term maternity leave cover post. The post is to work in the newly integrated 0-19 Childrens and Young People Public Health Service based in Oxford City (Kidlington, Summertown and Headington areas). The new service brings together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, delivering the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to provide an innovative and high-quality service that helps children, young people and families to thrive.

Health visitors, community public health nurses (previously known as community staff nurses) and community public health associates (previously known as community nursery nurses) will now be working with children up to 8 years of age where there are known concerns or vulnerabilities and will provide health related episodes of care to support with areas such as behaviour, diet, and sleep. There has also been an introduction of a new four-year health and development review to support school transition and address any school readiness concerns. 

The current base is Northway Community Centre in Oxford with a move to Jordan Hill, Oxford planned at the end 2024. There may be a possibility of the post becoming permanent at the end of the fixed term.

Main duties of the job

In addition to our universal offer, we have many exciting and rewarding features within our service.

You will be leading the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme completing the 5 mandated contact with the addition of the new 4 year health and development review to support school readiness and transition. You lead and will be responsible for a skill mix team delivering public health service initiatives to a defined population. You will work as part of a team that includes Community Public Health Associates, and Community Public Health Nurses with additional support from experienced Locality Team Leaders delivering a service alongside SCPHN SHN and the FNP in 0-19 locality teams.

You will deliver services to children and families within homes, and community settings. Clinical activities will include assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating family focused care and delegating to CPHA and CPHN when appropriate. You will develop multi agency relationships and work closely with other agencies including the voluntary sector. 

The role will require the post holder to adhere to Safeguarding policies and actively engage in safeguarding processes.

We offer an exceptional and robust package of training, mentorship, and supervision, including a pathway for continuing career progression and development. 

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible 

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:  “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:  “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers Competitive pension scheme Lease car scheme Cycle to work scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mental Health First Aiders Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply) Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the job description for full details of the role, duties and responsibilities for the role of Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor). 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

First Level Registered Nurse or midwife Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (health visiting)

Desirable criteria

Qualified mentor Teaching skills and/or qualification Nurse Prescriber Post-graduate qualifications

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of inter-agency working Evidence of current knowledge of National and Local policies and relevant research and the ability to relate it to practice Reflective practitioner

Desirable criteria

Clinical Supervisor Presentation skills in line with organisational competencies Evidence of a recent managerial experience Experience of facilitating clinical supervision, learning and development

Skills

Essential criteria

Evidence of leadership skills Demonstrates knowledge and skills of IT All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.  We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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