Community nursery nurse

Job Summary

We are looking for a nursery nurse to support the health visiting team in delivering the healthy child programme and carrying out child development reviews and public health initiatives.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting healthy child clinics/reviews and developmental reviews.
• Supporting the health visiting team by undertaking universal contacts, and package of care.
• Supporting the delivery of public health initiatives.

Job responsibilities

• Communication and relationship skills
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams
• Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/ understanding e.g. child protection, domestic violence bereavement and where English is not the first language.
• Ensure effective communication with all members of multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency partners, in particular childrens centres, early years providers, social services and GP practices.
• Ensure all information about patients is treated confidentially and comply with trust policies on data protection, information sharing and governance
• Participate in team and other meetings as required
• Knowledge, training and experience
• A recognised child care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC national diploma
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification relevant experience
• A sound knowledge of child development
• Communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams.
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients.
• Possessing an up to date personal development plan showing evidence of continuing professional development
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.
• Analytical and judgement skills
• Assess, implement and plan services under the guidance of the community health nurse/health visitor
• Ability to use observation skills and feedback to team members
• Evaluate individual and community health care programmes in collaboration with the community health nurse/health visitor
• Planning and organisational skills
• Responsible for planning own work
• To facilitate group work on relevant health promotion topics
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is up to date in line with organisational policy
• Physical skills
• Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner
• Responsibility for client care
• To work in collaboration with the service in implementing and evaluating individual and community health care programmes
• To participate in the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities.
• To implement and plan services with individual families under the guidance of the health visitor
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult protection guidelines and procedures
• Ensure effective communication with clients and colleagues
• To ensure the provision of a high quality service that is led by client need and is evidence based
• Access clinical supervision as per trust policy
• Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
• To support the health visiting team in service and practice development initiatives to improve standards and outcomes.
• Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
• Comply with the trusts standing orders and standing financial instructions
• Responsible for the safe and careful use of equipment in clinics and during home visits (e.g. weighing scales)
• Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
• To adhere to all organisational policy and procedures
• To provide support and advice to other colleagues within the team.
• Responsibilities for information resources
• Responsibility for timely accurate record keeping and safeguarding client confidentiality by adhering to caldicott principles
• Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, management and evaluation.

Person Specification

• Experience of working with children
• Nursery nurse qualification
• Community experience
• Good computer skills and record keeping
• Experience of community working
• Good interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Choice of two pension schemes: NHS Pension scheme and Scottish Widows Group pension scheme.
• Informal visits can be arranged on request.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a Disclosure to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.