Community Nursery Nurse - London
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 4 Community Nursery Nurse to join the Brent Health Visiting Team. We are searching for community nursery nurses who have experience of working within early years settings or the health service and are skilled in communicating with professionals and clients from a wide variety of backgrounds.
As a community Nursery Nurse our skill mix teams work passionately to deliver our progressive service and continue to seek and develop innovative ways of working with Brent families to enable children to have their best start in life.You will be of support for members of the team and deliver services in line with the Healthy Child programme under the supervision of the Health Visitor.
The team are seeking dynamic individuals with a strong public health focus who are fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse population. You will be a highly motivated individual who has good communication skills with an interest in proactively managing health promotion initiatives.
The successful candidate will be trained in delivering the Infant to school programme us base on the MESCH way of working for children 2months and 1 year prior to start school.
Main duties of the job- Support the work of the 0-19 Public Health Team with planned programmes of public health care and health promotion in accordance with The Healthy Child Programme (DH 2009).
- Support the delivery of a ‘child focused service’ which promotes good partnership working with parents, nurseries, children’s centres and other agencies.
- To participate in service development and health improvement activities.
- To advise parents/carers on positive parenting skills including understanding and managing child behaviour, introduction to solids and nutrition, play and stimulation, speech and language development, sleep management and toilet training, ensuring that advice is evidence based to facilitate school readiness.
- To act as the link 0-19 professional for identified PVIs in line with local service specification .
- Work in a collaborative manner with Children’s Centres, nurseries, parents, members of the Primary Health Care Team and other agencies.
- Identifying where there is a cause for concern and taking appropriate action in accordance with safeguarding guidelines, including informing a senior member of staff of any concerns.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria- N.N.E.B./ BTEC Diploma in Child Care or NVQ in Child Care level 3 or equivalent
- Educated to Diploma level in a health-related subject.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with children and families in a formal health, educational or social care setting
- Evidence of ongoing training in Early Years
- Experience of working as a team member and on own
- Experience of leading group work
- Experience of working in the NHS
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria- Basic skills in numeracy and literacy
- IT skills including Word, Excel
- Ability to assess a situation, identifying any risk or potential problem and act appropriately.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children
- Knowledge of normal child development, parenting skills and the importance of play.
- Able to make and record observations of children’s behaviour and development
- Maintains high level of confidentiality
- Basic understanding of community health care services
- Presentation skills
- Teaching skills (children, parents)
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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