Family Nurse - NHS

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a family nurse to join the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) team in Sunderland. This is an exciting, specialist post within the existing FNP team, which is part of the Growing Healthy Sunderland 0-19 service.

The post holder should have relevant experience of working with complex and vulnerable young parents and their babies.

This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

1. To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP

1. To use programme materials and methods in the clients’ homes in order to achieve

• improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,

1. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour

1. To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people

1. Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to

1. To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that

families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and

between one and two years old.

Working for our organisation

• An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference and Team of the Month Awards plus the Christmas Oscars.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
• Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Angela Ward on [email protected]

Person specification

Essential

• Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC, Degree level or equivalent professional qualification Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
• At least 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities, At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting. Experience of clinical supervision. Working with children & families. Working with young people
• Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches. Has some knowledge of the research base of NFP. Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas. National and local safeguarding policies

• Masters level education
• Attachment theory X Self-efficacy theory X Human ecology theory X Behavioural change theory. Parent/infant mental health