Community Staff Nurse- School Nursing

Job summary

If you are a registered NMC nurse and looking to join an innovative and forward thinking service, with a Trust ranked in the top 5 in the staff survey and rated outstanding by CQC, then consider a career as a Community School nurse. The team deliver a service that is commissioned by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and provided by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust.

You should be highly motivated and compassionate, demonstrating excellent communication and team working skills to enable the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

The 0-19 service focusses on ensuring that everyone in Solihull has the best possible start in life through meeting the needs of children and family. Our 0-19 services are offered from the antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 (25 SEND).

Your days will be varied and rewarding, working alongside Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCHPN), assessing health needs, to support aspects of a child/young persons development and health from transition into school.

You will offer mentorship to pre-registration students and preceptorship to new staff members. You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team.

Regular safeguarding and clinical supervision is provided along with other professional development opportunities.

Career development in the form of the Specialist Community Public Health nurse training is available after 12 months of employment

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for delivering and evaluating preventativeservices and universal Public Health Programmes, as set out in the Healthy ChildProgramme (HCP 5-19) (DH) for school aged children and young people, withinboth school and the surrounding community.

Undertake caseload work allocated by the school nurse including accepting and responding to re-assigned alerts, undertake secondary assessments, deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the School with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensurethe role and function of the School Nursing Service and how to access the serviceboth outside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population. Supporting specific public health initiatives for children and young people, sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles, emotional health.

Support health needs assessment of reception Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) year 6, 9 and school leavers online Health Assessments. Responding to identified need/delegated alerts and feeding back to School Nurse outcome of intervention.

Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the School Nurse as required.

Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education.

Provide drop-in session in senior schools, as required, to provide advice/support and referral as appropriate.

Support the School Nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, chimat and the public health observatory to ensure that planned interventions and all work undertaken is evidence based.

Undertake health need assessments as delegated by the School Nurse, of children and young people, including, Child Protection Health Assessments reporting back findings to the School Nurse.

Identify and support children, young people and families in need of universal plus services to address health needs.

When required co-ordinate with health care professionals, parents and schools to ensure that the childs/ young persons health needs are met within the school environment.

Support children, young people and families during the transition process from primary to secondary school, including the reviewing of reception age and stage questionnaires and year six and year nine health questionnaires, so as to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions undertaken, in order to address health needs and escalate any concerns to School Nurse.

Have knowledge, understanding and adhere to Solihull Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Childrens services when a child or young person is deemed at risk. As delegated by the School Nurse provide written reports and chronologies as required, participating in strategies, initial case conferences, review case conferences and core groups where health needs are identified, and feeding back to the school nurse.

Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.

Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per the Trust Essential Skills policy. Pay progression for annual increments is no longer automatic, all staff must have completed all their statutory and mandatory training and they must have had a staff appraisal in the last 12 months. The onus is on individuals to ensure that they meet these requirements.

Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.

Work with the school nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based.

Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme and vision testing when opportunities arise, with contacts with children, young people and families, in order to raise awareness of the importance of these programmes/tests for the benefit of the general health and wellbeing of children and young people.

Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7.

In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, text, phone calls.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Maintain accurate records at all times, ensuring written work is countersigned by trained staff in line with trust policy.

Must possess basic IT skills able to use Microsoft office/word. Must possess basic social media skills to access and post on social media platforms face book, twitter and Instagram.

Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.

Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision.

Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

Measurable Result Areas

Health assessments are responded to within agreed timescale.

Promote a whole school approach to healthy lifestyles; signpost to Eat Well Move More service, where appropriate, proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight.

Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services.

Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery.

Communications and Working Relationships

Support new staff, students and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking supervisor/ assessor role and keep updated

Delegate work appropriately to School Nurse Assistants and report back these instances to the school nurse, so that staff work allocation lists can be updated effectively.

Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.

Undertake staff appraisal training in order to then complete staff appraisals for the skill mix team to promote staff development.

Prioritise and attend team meetings.

Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy.

Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse and registered on the NMC. Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.

Desirable

Leadership Course, ability to demonstrate leadership skills Mentoring & Assessing, , 998, CPD 308, C&G 730RegisteredNurse, assessor/ supervisor course.

Experience

Essential

Must have post registration experience, minimum of 12 months. Must have experience of working with children, young people and /or families. Must have experience of working in teams Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery

Skills

Essential

Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals Have an understanding and awareness of LSCP Child Protection policies and procedures. Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills. Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the public health role in school nursing Must possess basic IT skills able to use Microsoft office/word. Must possess basic social media skills to access and post on social media platforms eg face book, twitter and Instagram. Must be able to demonstrate ability to prioritise work delegated. Must have knowledge of the public health role in school nursing, and demonstrate issues affecting children & young people. Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department. Must have knowledge of clinical supervision.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to remain calm and focused under pressurised situations Demonstrates compassion and empathy Self-motivated and can motivate and inspire others Professional presentation and communication style

Desirable

Embraces innovation and creativity

Other

Essential

Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check Must be legally entitled to work in this country Must be prepared to work between 8am - 6pm and weekend if required All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.

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