Staff Nurse in School Nursing
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
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 whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, 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.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society.We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
Agile and Flexible Working
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.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site which has allowed us to reduce waiting times for car parking passes.
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Job overview
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 Coventry City 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 Coventry 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 (SCPHN), assessing health needs, to support aspects of a child/young persons development and health from transition into school.
Our service offers 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
Under the direction of the School Nurse the post holder will be responsible for delivering and evaluating preventative services and universal public health programmes, as set out in the Healthy Child Programme (HCP 5-19) (DH) for school aged children and young people, within both school and the surrounding community.
Undertake caseload work delegated by the school nurse including assessing health questionnaires, undertake secondary assessments deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the school nurse.
Work with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensure the role and function of the school nursing service and how to access the service both outside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.
Working for our organisation
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 4^th 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 productivity.
Our 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.
Detailed job description and main 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, e.g. sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Help to reduce childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles and emotional health.
Support health needs assessment of reception Parent, year 6, 9 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.
Respond to Chat health conversations and support the young people.
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, e.g. 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 Children in Care 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 child’s/ young person’s 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 parent health 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 Coventry Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Children’s services when a child or young person is deemed at risk.
Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. 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 audiology 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, e.g. 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 e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word.
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 Be Active Be Healthy 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
Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
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 criteria- Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse
- Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.
Experience
Essential criteria- 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 criteria- Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
- Have an understanding and awareness of Coventry Child Protection policies and procedures.
- Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills
- Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word
- 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 criteria- 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
- Embraces innovation and creativity
Other
Essential criteria- 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 – 8pm and weekend if required
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).
Please check your TRAC account regularly and ensure your email is set up to accept messages so they don't go into your junk/spam folder.
We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.
Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
All South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust sites are smoke free. We feel it’s a great way to help our patients, visitors and staff stay healthy.
The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability of all four organisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.