Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-EAN-8399-A
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Community Parent Infant Practitioner / Community Nursery Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 4
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
Community Perinatal Parent Infant Practitioner / Nursery Nurse
Hertfordshire Community Perinatal Team (CPT)
Band 4, 30 hours per week , fixed term maternity cover
0.8 post covering the west of the county
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled Community Nursery Nurse with a special interest in perinatal mental health to join the team for a 9 month fixed term post and take a role in shaping development in this thriving, supportive and well-regarded specialist multi-disciplinary team.
The team serves the county of Hertfordshire, supporting women with mental health needs, through pregnancy and the postnatal period as well as working closely with maternity staff and providers of primary, secondary and inpatient care.
About you: are you a creative, reflective and flexible Nursery Nurse with a passion for working with women, infants and families in the perinatal period? Are you committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care?
As a Band 4 Parent infant Practitioner / Community Nursery Nurse you will be an active member of a skilled multi-disciplinary team. You will be working together with your colleagues to provide tailored interventions in the critical perinatal period in our county-wide service. This means you’ll travel less and work out in the community directly delivering care in people’s homes and the local community; whilst receiving specialist supervision and support from our Senior Parent-Infant Therapist.
Main duties of the job
· To work within an extensive multi professional team in a community perinatal mental health setting specialising in the treatment of pregnant women and mothers with babies up to 2 years old.
· To support parents and other staff members in the team to ensure the emotional and practical care of the baby and to monitor developmental progress.
· To collaborate with parents to devise an agreed plan of care for baby
· To work autonomously in the community managing own caseload and prioritising work.
· To document and communicate this effectively within the multi professional team.
· To work with parents in a supportive role to aid them in their journey to recovery.
· To communicate sensitively with parents and professionals in what can be challenging situations.
· To aid many different professionals in their thinking and decision making around the needs of the baby.
· To work autonomously in the community managing own caseload and prioritising work.
Working for our organisation
Come and find out more about what we do and consider joining our team. HPFT has the most motivated workforce of any NHS organisation, according to the NHS staff survey results in 2017 and is the Health Service Journal’s “Mental Health Trust of the Year” 2021.
Here’s what we’ll offer you:
· A structured induction programme, giving you access to specific learning and development opportunities to give you the confidence and skills to start delivering interventions to our service users.
· Your development is our focus and we will offer a range of ways for you to further your specialist perinatal skills and knowledge coupled with 100 day conversations and a high quality supervision and appraisal programme.
· You’ll be an important part of an innovative, creative and developing service. We are committed to a future where we use continuous quality improvement to harness your ideas for service development and make them a reality.
· You’ll work with a team who have highly specialist knowledge, experience and skills within perinatal care, where you will have access to a comprehensive internal training package to develop these skills in your first year too.
· Delivering perinatal nursery nurse interventions is a chance to change service users’ lives, delivering evidence-based interventions and learning about and helping parents understand how to build their relationship with their new born infant.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working relationships
- To work closely with team colleagues involved in the care of the mother and baby communicating relevant information in a timely way.
- To liaise closely with external agencies involved with the mother and baby eg health visitors ensuring timely sharing of information where relevant and a consistent approach to care.
- Build and develop good working relationships with children’s centres,
- To treat mothers with respect and sensitivity at all times using suitable communication skills to support women to manage their role caring for their baby in the context of managing the symptoms of mental ill health.
- Communication Requirements Be skilled at adapting language and professional approach to a varied client group
- To act at all times in safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality and availability of sensitive information relating to mothers and staff
- To demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills in a wide range of situations in the community and to be able to represent the Community Perinatal Team to external agencies.
- To promote the Community Perinatal Team to external colleagues eg Midwives through various activities including teaching and presenting.
- To promote effective flow of communication among all relevant parties.
Clinical Responsibility
- To support women with perinatal mental health needs to build their relationship with their baby both ante-natally and post-natally through the use of evidence-based interventions.
- Carry out home visits to selected families to teach play skills and promote early learning through demonstration and shared activities
- To support families to build understanding in child development and how to support this in their own families.
- To support women with advice on breastfeeding and bottle feeding both ante- and post- natally.
- Support families in relation to starting solids, infant and toddler nutrition.
- To promote community resources suitable for the needs of families.
- To recognise and promote all aspects of culture diversity, devising baby care plans that respond positively to ethnic awareness with sensitivity
- To participate in teaching in community based groups demonstrating skilled communication and ability to identify the needs of those attending
- To use appropriate standardised assessments and evidence-based interventions in line with the Perinatal Parent-Infant Pathway.
Leadership and Staff Management Responsibility
- To have the knowledge and ability to manage change in a positive way.
- To act as a positive role model to the multi-disciplinary team, mothers, fathers, co-parents and Health Visitors and staff.
- To have the ability to provide effective support to mothers, fathers, co-parents and wider families and carers of babies and toddlers under 2 years.
- To support colleagues and the wider team at times of increased service demand taking a flexible approach and responsibility for delegated tasks.
Financial responsibility
- To assist the team in the effective use of resources at all time
Service Development and Improvement
- To comply with the Trust’s requirement to attend all relevant mandatory training
- To engage in and support in-service training for the multidisciplinary team through active participation including providing teaching sessions on topics relevant to the role
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
- To ensure clinical skills relative to the delivery of care in the team as agreed and monitored within the Trust’s supervisory framework
- To recognise own limitations in skill and level of authority.
- To engage in regular reflective practice demonstrating improvements to clinical practice.
- To have the knowledge and abilities to manage change in the workplace positively and professionally.
Planning and Organisational Skills
- To ensure effective planning, time management and decision making skills
To prioritise own work load as allocated and discussed within on- going supervisory framework.
- To attend team meetings and other relevant client meetings whilst managing own diary to ensure all commitments are met
- To maintain high standards of record keeping in line with Trust policy.
- To assist with clerical and administrative duties as required
- Assist in service audits
Physical Working Conditions and Environment
· To be able to drive across the county to independently carry out home visits
· To be physically fit and able to successfully complete a prevention and management of aggression training course and annual refresher
· To have the skills and confidence to manage mothers who may exhibit challenging behaviour at times due to their mental ill health.
Information Resources
- To hold basic IT skills, good literacy and numeracy skills
Additional Information:
Knowledge and Skills Framework:
The post holder will be expected to meet the requirements of the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) appropriate outline for the post.
Health and Safety
The post holder has a duty of care to themselves and to others with whom they come into contact in the course of their work as laid down in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and any subsequent amendment or legislation.
Infection Control
All Trust staff will:
Act as a role model and champion for the highest standard of all aspects of infection prevention and control and implementation of all Infection Prevention and Control Trust polices and guidelines.
Demonstrate respect for the roles and endeavours of others, in implementing good standards of hand hygiene.
Value and recognise the ideas and contributions of colleagues in their endeavours to reduce the incidence of healthcare associated infection.
Equality and Diversity
The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all staff, service users and carers enjoy equality of opportunity.
The Trust works to eliminate all forms of discrimination and recognise that this requires, not only a commitment to remove discrimination, but also action through positive policies to redress inequalities.
Providing equality of opportunity means understanding and appreciating the diversity of our staff, service users & carers and ensuring a supportive environment free from harassment. Because of this Hertfordshire Partnership Trust actively encourages its staff to challenge discrimination and promote equality of opportunity for all.
Confidentiality
All staff must be aware of the Data Protection Act 1984, and its subsequent amendments, which is now in force. This means that protection of data about individuals is a requirement of the law and if any employee is found to have permitted unauthorised disclosure, the Trust and the individual may be prosecuted.
Standards of Business Conduct and Conflicts of Interest
The Trust has adopted a Standards of Conduct Policy, which reflects NHS Management Executive Guidelines. It is the responsibility of staff to ensure that they do not abuse their official position for personal gain or seek to advantage or further private business or other interests in the course of their official duties. Staff should be informing their line manager if they are working for any other organisation to ensure that this Trust complies with the Working Time Regulations.
Information and Records Management
The postholder must be competent in using IT and have the relevant skills to carry out the activities required for the post.
To comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Department of Health Code of Confidentiality in line with Trust procedures.
To adhere to the Trust’s policies on records management including creation, use, storing and retention and disposal of records.
Adhere to the Trust’s Corporate Identity (using the standard templates – available on Trustspace).
Safeguarding Adults and Children
The Trust is committed to ensuring adults and children are protected and come to no harm from abuse. All employees have a responsibility to be aware of national and local policies, their individual responsibilities with regards to the protection and safeguarding of both adults and children, and must adhere to them at all times.
Organisational Change
As services develop and change, the post holder may be required to undertake other responsibilities within the Trust.
Review:
This job description is an outline, which reflects the present requirements of the post and is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of duties and responsibilities. As these duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- NNEB – National Nursery Education Board -qualification
- BTEC (National Diploma in Nursery Nursing)or equivalent such as NVQ level3 (child care and education)
- Understanding of childcare and development. Up to date awareness of recent research and guidance on child development
- A comprehensive working knowledge of legislation and national directives/policies relating to children
- Well developed knowledge of each individual responsibility in safeguarding infants
- Ability to plan, provide and participate in suitable activities for parents and babies
- Ability to work as 37.5hour week and be flexible within working pattern.
- Undertake all Mandatory training
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- To have demonstrable skills and knowledge in working with infants to assess and care for their needs including: play and stimulation; infant nutrition; appropriate developmental milestones
- Experience of working with mothers with perinatal mental health disorders.
- Ability to maintain records and write accurate reports. Basic IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of community working
- Experience of working with electronic patient record
- Knowledge of child protection procedures.
Applicant requirements
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
- Emma Custance
- Job title
- Senior Parent Infant Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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