Practice Facilitator School Nurse Barking and Dagenham

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

We are looking for a School Nurse with strong clinical leadership skills who can motivate and challenge practice.

The post holder will be the clinical lead for the Barking and Dagenham Children’s services in supporting the Barking and Dagenham for School Nursing. This will also include the evaluation and management of those developments to ensure best practice is achieved. The focus will be related to 0-19 School Nursing practices but occasionally some of the developments involve multi-professional initiatives, where there is integrated service across statutory organisation / voluntary colleagues. The post holder will also be responsible for the provision of an effective and robust Continued Professional and Practice Development (CPPD) system for registered SCPHNs, nurses and non–registered nurses across the service. This will also include the identification, development delivery and management of a range of support systems as well as education and training initiatives.

The successful applicant will need to demonstrate effective methods of change management and be confident in delivering educational initiatives to support the new commissioned contract focusing on School Nursing delivery.

Main duties of the job

• To work with 0-19 Operational Leads / Team Leads / Preceptors / SCPTs to agree and develop induction and preceptorship plans for newly recruited Band 5, Band 6, Band 7 registered staff and Community Nursery Nurses and Clinical Assistants.
• 20% of the role will remain clinically hands on.
• To organise regular ‘Learning together’ forums which is part teaching session and part action learning set.
• Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and / or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the early intervention team.
• Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the early intervention process.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups / projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• To supervise pre and post registration students.
• Support transformation of school nursing in coproducing with service user, stakeholders and partners.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are :

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To support the embedding of the DOH Your Welcome

To support with the recruitment of Specialist Practitioner students, working closely with University Course Directors and Practice Experience Facilitator.

To support the Practice Experience Facilitator to the train new Practice Assessors and Supervisors.

To take a lead role for the Service in developing training needs analysis.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

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Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT :

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.