SCPHN School Nurse

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Bi Borough Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster (KCW) School Health service to recruit highly motivated and innovative practitioners to join the School Nursing Service to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

If you are interested in the role and are keen to show you are the right person for the job we want to hear from you, so please apply online now!

Please only apply if you are a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) registration.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings

Main duties of the job

We offer excellent professional development opportunities along with formal one to one supervision and annual appraisal.

Working for our organisation

We are advertising for a post in our Westminster School Nursing Service, based in Soho London. Full and part time hours considered; year round and term time only opportunities available. Please state in your application your preferred working pattern.

1. To work in partnership with educational staff, health care professionals and other agencies to provide advice and support to children & young people, their parents and carers as required.
2. Undertake appropriate training / updates related to public health issues in order to contribute towards meeting local and national Department of Health targets such as immunisations, teenage pregnancy & sexual health, smoking cessation and obesity.
3. To carry out training sessions to other professionals on relevant health or medical issues and where appropriate, assist children and young people to manage their own health conditions independently.
4. To undertake agreed health assessments on children & young people and ensure referrals, treatments and reviews are carried out as recommended and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
5. To develop high quality packages of care for children & young people with medical needs, in partnership with other health professionals, education, parents & carers & other agencies as necessary.
6. To be responsible for identifying children & young people requiring medical follow-up planning.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RGN / RSCN
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) (or working towards)

• Evidence of Continual Professional development
• Mentorship Preparation or equivalent.
• Public Health Nursing (Children & Families) Sexual Health (or equivalent)
• School Nurse Certificate
• Sexual Health (or equivalent)

Experience

• Experience of working with children in a professional capacity
• Working with families who have experienced trauma
• Proven post registration experience
• Working with diverse communities
• Evidence to support experience of audit activity

Knowledge

• Understanding of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance.
• Knowledge of children with special health and educational needs
• Understanding of the public health role of the school nurse
• Understanding of Equality & Valuing Diversity
• Knowledge of key documents and drivers informing school nursing practice

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• Good computer literacy skills
• Ability to communicate in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of team working

• Ability to demonstrate essential leadership skills
• Ability to reflect on clinical practice and to understand own limitations when dealing with emotive issues
• Ability to act as a mentor / preceptor to students and newly recruited colleagues
• Good computer literacy skills

Abilities

• Aware of own limitations and seek support from wider Team when dealing with highly emotive circumstances.
• Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.