School Staff Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 School Staff Nurse working as part of the Wiltshire wide School Nursing Team.

You will be a Registered Nurse with an interest in providing services to Children, Young People and their families within the community setting. You'll join an experienced team who are focused on clinical excellence.

We are very excited to be delivering our School Nursing Public Health Service to provide the Healthy Child Programme using a holistic approach in order to ensure a comprehensive Public Health Service to the school aged population and their families.

You will provide school aged children / young people and their families with a service that promotes the physical, mental and emotional health and provide support for families / carers by partnership working in a community setting.

This is a fixed-term position for 39 weeks and is term time only working 30 hours per week during term time.

Main duties of the job

- Understanding the concept of Clinical Governance and be skilled in the identification, assessment and protection of vulnerable children and families
- To support the school nurse community service as part of the skill mixed public health team. To contribute to the development of the School nursing service in the defined locality through liaison with and support from the Specialist School Nurse and innovative practice to meet health needs.
- Working across organizational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with the organisations policies and priorities To lead on delegated work from the Specialist School Nurse, utilizing Nursing skills of leadership, prioritization and assessment.
- To collaborate with key partners to address public health needs as an advocate for children/young people, families/carers and the school health service.
- To be responsible for the assessment of childrens health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children and young people and the Early Support assessment.
- To support allocated caseload of vulnerable children and adolescents through proactive discussions with families, schools, other agencies, attendance at Child Protection Conferences and one to one discussions, under the support and supervision of the specialist school nurse to help plan and prioritize support and interventions.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a School Staff Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team based in Wiltshire..

You will feel valued as a Band 5 School Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £29,970 - £36,483 Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a School Staff Nurse, you'll be part of our valued team based in Wiltshire..

You will feel valued as a Band 5 School Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £29,970 - £36,483 Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

- Registered nurse or midwife.
- Evidence of post registration education.
- Practice Assessor/Supervisor qualification or willingness to undertake.
- Post Registration Experience.
- A full UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
- Experience of working independently and as part of a team.
- Able to maintain factual, consistent, accurate and contemporaneous records.
- Understanding of the public health role of the school nurse.
- Understanding of working within budgetary and resource constraints.
- Able to communicate clearly both written and verbal.
- IT literate.
- Ability to make clinical judgments and decisions and to be accountable for choices made.
- Able to work flexibly and respond to changing demands in workload with excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to recognise own limitations and good time management skills.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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