Job summary
- Main area
- School nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Contract is until September 2025)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 844-6229805
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helens 0-19 Children's Services
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Public Health Nurse - St Helens
Band 5
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
Public Health Nurse in St Helens supporting the delivery of a public health offer to children and young people and delivering the Healthy Child Programme core offer.
Main duties of the job
Supporting the 0-19 service to deliver the public health offer in St Helens.
Managing a safeguarding caseload, including completing health assessments, contributing to multiagency meetings and completing reports.
Delegation and work planning/organisation
Working for our organisation
The St Helens 0-19 service is a friendly supportive team offering staff the opportunity to work flexibly if needed.
We work with the trust values of compassion openness and Trust ensuring that we demonstrate these values to children and families in St Helens and to each other.
We have daily safety huddles to support staff at the beginning of each day and monthly team meetings.
Supervision is available to all staff both planned and reactive.
We work closely with our specialist Safeguarding nurses to ensure staff feel supported and have access to appropriate training and induction
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of the 0-19 service. The post is a 12 month fixed term contract delivering public health offer across St Helens.
The role also includes providing leadership to junior colleagues and new starters, organising/ work planning and delegation and chairing and attending meetings.
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- RN (Adult or Child/RSCN) or RM
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship
- Motivational Interviewing
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working within the 0-19 Team and evidence of managing a school nursing caseload
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Ability to use email, internet and word processing software.
Desirable criteria
- Delivering public health sessions in schools
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and non-verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to support students in placement
- Ability to support and motivate staff
- Effective interpersonal skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Access to a car for work purpose
- Commitment
- Vision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Collins
- Job title
- 0-19 team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744 411277
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