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Job overview

We are looking to recruit registered nurses who will join our School Nursing teams across North Northamptonshire. Our successful applicants will be part of our growing Universal Children’s Service offering an opportunity to join them in providing excellent evidence based care and support for children, young people and their families. 

We have bases across the following sites and our successful applicants will be required to potentially travel across the full geographical area of North Northamptonshire:

• Isebrook Hospital - Wellingborough
• Rectory Road Clinic - Rushden
• Green Lane - Thrapston 
• Willowbrook Health Centre - Corby
• St Mary's Hospital - Kettering
• Rothwell Medical Centre - Rothwell

If you are motivated, enthusiastic and flexible and looking for a challenging role in which no two days are the same, we want to meet you!

We need nurses who can work well with children, young people, families and other professionals, who are adaptable and innovative and who enjoy working autonomously and as part of a team. Core areas of clinical delivery will relate to assessing children and young people's holistic health and wellbeing, partnership working, safeguarding and promoting:

• Children's continence
• Children and young people's emotional wellbeing
• Healthy sleep
• Emotional & behavioural co-regulation with parents/carers
• Healthy lifestyles
• Healthy growth and development
• Sexual health

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be working in an integrated skill mix team that includes Practice assessors, Specialist School Nurses, Health Visitors, Nursery Nurses and School Nurse Assistants. Our service users are at the heart of our service delivery and we listen to the child’s voice at all times. We involve children and families in decision making and aspire to deliver a truly co-produced 0-19 service. The post holder is expected to support a range of service delivery under direct and indirect supervision of a SCPHN School Nurse or Health Visitor. You must be able to prioritise needs to ensure efficient service delivery. This is achieved by working within local cluster areas that enable practitioners to have an enhanced knowledge of their local community and its public health needs. Community Staff Nurses are expected to participate in leading a full range of interventions across the 0-19 age ranges which includes but is not limited to: in-depth health assessments, health education, sexual health advice and assessment, leading group psycho-education including wellbeing workshops, parent and child interventions, continence clinics, well-being interventions and drop in services. You will be supported in practice by an administration hub that provides a single point of contact for the 0-19 service.

The 0-19 service values staff development and you will be supported with training and development to help you to achieve your potential.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.