Public Health Nurse - St Helens

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:

We will support you and your community to live well.

Our values:

Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

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

We have great feedback from students and staff who enjoy working within a friendly and supportive team.

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

Facilitating clinics across St Helens

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, 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

• RN (Adult or Child/RSCN) or RM

• Mentorship
• Motivational Interviewing

Experience and Knowledge

• 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.

• Delivering public health sessions in schools

Skills and Attributes

• 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

• Access to a car for work purpose
• Commitment
• Vision

Important Information

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.

We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.

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.

Further Information:

Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.

Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.

Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made. For all part-time positions, salaries are pro-rata.

Restricted Applications: Staff on the Trust's Redeployment Register will be given priority access to vacancies at their substantive band.

Flexible Working: Flexible working is very important to the Trust in both the provision of this to staff and also in staff supporting the provision of our services.

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to discharging its statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults and will support staff to fulfil this duty.