Staff Nurse in School Nursing

Job summary
If you are a registered NMC nurse and looking to join an innovative and forward thinking service, with a Trust ranked in the top 5 in the staff survey and rated outstanding by CQC, then consider a career as a Community School nurse. The team deliver a service that is commissioned by Coventry City Council and provided by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust.

You should be highly motivated and compassionate, demonstrating excellent communication and team working skills to enable the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

The 0-19 service focusses on ensuring that everyone in Coventry has the best possible start in life through meeting the needs of children and family.Our 0-19 services are offered from the antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 (25 SEND).

Your days will be varied and rewarding, working alongside Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN), assessing health needs, to support aspects of a child/young persons development and health from transition into school.

Our service offers mentorship to pre-registration students and preceptorship to new staff members. You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team.

Regular safeguarding and clinical supervision is provided along with other professional development opportunities.

Career development in the form of the Specialist Community Public Health nurse training is available after 12 months of employment.

Main duties of the job
Under the direction of the School Nurse the post holder will be responsible fordelivering and evaluating preventative services and universal public healthprogrammes, as set out in the Healthy Child Programme (HCP 5-19) (DH) for schoolaged children and young people, within both school and the surrounding community.

Undertake caseload work delegated by the school nurse including assessing healthquestionnaires, undertake secondary assessments deliver brief interventions andfeedback progress to the school nurse.

Work with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensure therole and function of the school nursing service and how to access the service bothoutside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.

About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Job responsibilities

• Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population. Supporting specific public health initiatives for children and young people, e.g. sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Help to reduce childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles and emotional health.
• Support health needs assessment of reception Parent, year 6, 9 online Health Assessments. Responding to identified need/delegated alerts and feeding back to School Nurse outcome of intervention.
• Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the School Nurse as required.
• Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education.
• Respond to Chat health conversations and support the young people.
• Support the School Nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, e.g. chimat and the public health observatory to ensure that planned interventions and all work undertaken is evidence based.
• Undertake health need assessments as delegated by the School Nurse, of children and young people, including Children in Care Health Assessments reporting back findings to the School Nurse.
• Identify and support children, young people and families in need of universal plus services to address health needs.
• When required co-ordinate with health care professionals, parents and schools to ensure that the childs/ young persons health needs are met within the school environment.
• Support children, young people and families during the transition process from primary to secondary school, including the reviewing of parent health questionnaires and year six and year nine health questionnaires, so as to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions undertaken, in orderto address health needs and escalate any concerns to School Nurse.
• Have knowledge, understanding and adhere to Coventry Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Childrens services when a child or young person is deemed at risk.
• Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.
• Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per the Trust Essential Skills policy. Pay progression for annual increments is no longer automatic, all staff must have completed all their statutory and mandatory training and they must have had a staff appraisal in the last 12 months. The onus is on individuals to ensure that they meet these requirements.
• Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed.
• Work with the school nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based.
• Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme and audiology when opportunities arise, with contacts with children, young people and families, in order to raise awareness of the importance of these programmes/tests for the benefit of the general health and wellbeing of children and young people.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7.
• In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, e.g. text, phone calls.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Maintain accurate records at all times, ensuring written work is countersigned by trained staff in line with trust policy.
• Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word.
• Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision.
• Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

Measurable Result Areas

• Health assessments are responded to within agreed timescale.
• Promote a whole school approach to healthy lifestyles; signpost to Be Active Be Healthy service where appropriate, proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight.
• Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services.
• Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery.

Communications and Working Relationships

• Support new staff, students and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking supervisor/ assessor role and keep updated
• Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
• Prioritise and attend team meetings.
• Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy.
• Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse
• Essential: Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.

Experience

• Essential: Must have post registration experience, minimum of 12 months.
• Essential: Must have experience of working with children, young people and /or families.
• Essential: Must have experience of working in teams
• Essential: Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery

Skills

• Essential: Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
• Essential: Have an understanding and awareness of Coventry Child Protection policies and procedures.
• Essential: Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills
• Essential: Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word
• Essential: Must be able to demonstrate ability to prioritise work delegated.
• Essential: Must have knowledge of the public health role in school nursing, and demonstrate issues affecting children & young people.
• Essential: Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
• Essential: Must have knowledge of clinical supervision.

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Ability to remain calm and focused under pressurised situations
• Essential: Demonstrates compassion and empathy
• Essential: Self-motivated and can motivate and inspire others
• Essential: Professional presentation and communication style
• Desirable: Embraces innovation and creativity

Other

• Essential: Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role
• Essential: Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
• Essential: Must be legally entitled to work in this country
• Essential: Must be prepared to work between 8am - 8pm and weekend if required

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.