Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
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
Are you a passionate, motivated, enthusiastic and caring Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse committed to providing a high-quality service to improve outcomes for children living in Coventry?
Applications from existing practitioners and students currently completing the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course are invited.
We offer a comprehensive Preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff alongside a robust New Starters programme to aid transition into the Trust and the team.
As a SCHPN school nurse you will require excellent communication skills and a broad knowledge of working in the community with children and their wider family.
In Coventry we create and promote a positive learning environment for staff, SCHPN students and pre-registration students. Training opportunities, clinical and safeguarding supervision is available to all.
The School Nursing team deliver a service that is commissioned by Coventry City Council and provided by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, which is ranked in the top 5 in the staff survey and rated outstanding by CQC.
Main duties of the job
The school nurse will be the named nurse for a number of schools and GP practices within a geographical area and will prioritise, organise and delegate work within the team to ensure effective delivery of service and best use of resource.
The school nurse will lead the team in the delivery of public health programmes and ensure the delivery of the Health Questionnaires to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. You will also have additional special responsibility for a designated area as required by the service e.g. young carers etc.
The school nurse will ensure children, young people, families and school communities know the role and function of the school nursing service and how to access the service.
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
Oversee the delivery of The Health Questionnaires: parents, Year 6 and Year 9.
Respond to Health Questionnaire alerts within timescales; make professional judgement to assign/delegate care to skill mix team. Ensuring you evaluate care provided by receiving feedback from the team on the outcomes of interventions.
Offer brief intervention to ensure timely response to identified need, and discharge appropriately.
Have an understanding of the health needs of the local geographical area by means of using profiling tools/accessing local data information from reliable sources, e.g. chimat, public health observatory to inform work undertaken and future practice development.
To develop networks with Education, Social Care and other statutory and voluntary agencies, to work collaboratively in achieving National and local priorities e.g. Acting Early initiative.
Lead at least 3 health public health initiatives a year which are consistent with nation/local messages, e.g. sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs.
Actively contribute to appropriate planning and management meetings within the school environment to ensure the health care of children is being adequately addressed.
Working in conjunction with Health Visitor colleagues support to transition into Primary School of those children with identified needs.
Identify and support children, young people and families in need of universal plus services through the Common Assessment Framework process. This includes taking the role of Lead Professional where required and appropriate.
Work with parents, carers, specialist health professionals and others to develop and review in-school care plans for pupils with complex health needs and long term conditions annually or sooner if required. Including providing or co-ordinating support, education and training for families, carers and school staff.
Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.
Have knowledge and understanding of Coventry Safeguarding Children Board policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Children’s services when a child or young person is at risk. Providing written reports, chronologies as required attending initial case conferences taking part in risk assessment discussions and agreeing a plan for the child.Being part of review conferences and core groups where health needs are identified and planned work with the child or family is required.
Promote the school health service positively to other agencies and professionals.
Deliver work that is both researched and evidence based, follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.
Submit accurate and timely activity and outcome data to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached.
Support children, young people and families during transition into school, and from primary to secondary and secondary to further education/ work.
Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.
Promote the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme when opportunities arise with contacts with children, young people and families.
Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines.
Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal.
Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision.
Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.
Measurable Result Areas
KPIs for the service are achieved.
Alerts from Health Questionnaires are responded to within agreed timescale.
Promote a whole school approach to obesity; proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being obese (95 percentile) refer on to Be Active Be Healthy and other services as required and 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight.
Lead on one of the key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services.
Participate in clinical audits and clinical bench marking to improve service care and delivery.
Communications and Working Relationships
Develop and maintain effective communication networks, with service users, health care professionals and other statutory and voluntary organisations especially when communicating highly sensitive information relating to a child and their family.
Raise awareness of health needs and influence policies affecting health.
Raise awareness of health needs within families, using skills of negotiation and motivational interviewing to facilitate change leading to a healthier lifestyle.
Use powers of negotiation when communicating in highly complex and potentially hostile environments for example in the child protection arena.
Organise and complete local induction/training programmes for new staff, and other appropriate workers.
Support the clinical lead in the delivery of the service, ensuring and maintaining high standards of evidence based practice within the city.
Promote positive team working by leading weekly base meetings. This involves organising and delegating work appropriately to the skill mix team, ensuring that work set and identified is supported and completed.
Supervise, mentor and assess nursing students where required and Post registration students undertaking community experience.
Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
Undertake appraisals for the skill mix team to promote staff development.
Support new staff in preceptorship by being a mentor and positive role model.
Promote the school health team positively to other agencies and professionals.
Attend Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per Essential Skills Policy.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Maintain a professional attitude at all times, in the best interests of the profession and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct.
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, electronic records.
Work to agreed Trust Policies and procedures which support the Clinical Governance agenda.
Offer shadowing experiences for new members of staff.
Review and reflect on own practice through accessing clinical, restorative and child protection supervision.
Prioritise and attend team meetings to ensure communication within and outside the team.
Deputise for the team clinical lead in their absence and feedback as required.
Actively participate in the recruitment and selection of new staff when required.
Support the skill mix team to access clinical and child protection supervision.
Undertake risk assessments as required, adhering to Trust policy. Contribute to service development through participation in Practice Development group and subgroups.
Use information technology securely and conform to the organisation’s information governance policies.
Contribute to leadership, organisational and co-ordinating skills to ensure robust team processes are implemented for improved efficiency of team.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Works as an autonomous practitioner planning and organising day-to-day caseload/workload.
Takes professional responsibility and accountability in the joint decision making process within the child protection arena as per Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership guidelines.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse degree –School Nursing
- Leadership Course or experience of leading teams.
- Mentoring & Assessing e.g. 998, CPD 308, C&G 730
Experience
Essential criteria- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to lead, deliver and evaluate preventative services for the school-age population and their families.
- Must have experience of leading a skill mix team
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery
Skills
Essential criteria- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
- Must be experienced and confident in safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the public health role in school nursing
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities.
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of further reading
- Must possess IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word
Personal
Essential criteria- Must be an excellent communicator and able to support the team through change understand
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 – 6pm 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.