We have a vacancy for a qualified SCPHN in Gloucester city. This is a permanent part time position of 30 hours per week.
Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health?
We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want.
We provide mobile working with laptops and electronic records, enabling place based and digital first interventions.
We have developed social media platforms and use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families.
We take a trauma informed approach to planning and delivering care, working in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring shared decision making and goal setting through restorative practice.
We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed.
We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
We can offer:
Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks
Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role
Clinical Supervision, Safeguarding Supervision and Restorative Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.
Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all our colleagues.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Provide a holistic health assessment with vulnerable children, offer advice, support and interventions where necessary to address unmet health needs and improve outcomes for the child and family.
Work collaboratively with children, young people and their families with a trauma informed approach, with the knowledge and understanding of ACES that may be impacting the child’s health.
To lead on cases for safeguarding; Children in need of Protection, A&E referrals; Children in Need and others deemed vulnerable applying professional curiosity where needed.
Provide advice, support and professional challenge at multi-agency meetings
Work in partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team and statutory and voluntary agencies in planning, delivering and evaluating care to improve outcomes for service users.
Be proactive in identifying and referring children and families where assessment identifies evidence of physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect.
Promote a high uptake of immunisation and vaccination programs and administer when required within public health immunisation campaigns.
Maintain accurate, factual and contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and local policy.
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