Permanent SCHOOL NURSE vacancy in Cotswolds locality, part-time.
30 hours, worked flexibly across core hours of Monday to Friday, 9-5 excluding Bank Holidays.
We are looking for a registered nurse or midwife to work with children and families in the School Nursing team in Cotswolds.
We offer:
1. An Induction Programme, training and competency framework to underpin transition into role.
2. Clinical Supervision, Restorative Supervision and Safeguarding Children Supervision to support professional practice.
3. Digital appointments to young people and parents offering quick and easy access to health advice and support.
4. Social media platforms and a texting service in response to requests of young people and families.
5. Diverse work in a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency and operating frameworks.
This role offers diverse and rewarding opportunities for nurses to make a difference to children and young people’s lives through advice, support, and signposting using public health skills of enabling and empowering families and communities to help themselves.
A School Nurse is someone who is:
1. Dynamic and innovative, who embraces challenge.
2. Wanting to help children, families, and young people to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing.
3. Able to support and respond to children, young people, and families most in need.
4. Wanting to help safeguard children and young people of Gloucestershire at risk of harm.
5. Interested in working in partnership with public sector and voluntary and community sector colleagues to achieve the best outcomes for children, young people, and their families.
6. Enthusiastic and motivated to develop and deliver plans to improve health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
We strongly encourage all applicants to spend some time either speaking with a school nurse or shadowing to gain a practical insight into the role. Please contact sally.chapman@ghc.nhs.uk or call 07816 062688 who can arrange this for you.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Responsible and accountable for assessing and implementing programmes of care from the Healthy Child Programme, as directed by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. This may also involve other evidenced-based programmes of care in partnership with clients or other agencies to identify and address health needs.
Progress the level of intervention as may be required according to identified risk factors which potentially could impact on a child’s health outcomes.
Provide leadership and act as a role model to junior members of the team by representing the values and beliefs of the nursing profession in addition to aligning to the GHC Values Framework.
Assess global health needs of communities, schools, and their children to ensure children are not disadvantaged through ill health or social circumstances.
Promote and monitor health in school-aged children, including identifying physical and mental health needs, disability, and problems with development or behaviour.
Work with schools to provide a healthy environment using data from the Online Pupil Survey, in partnership with the Healthy Schools Programme.
Facilitate the planning and implementation of drop-in sessions according to the needs of the young people and the whole school community.
We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals, and Return to Practice Practitioners.
In addition to the programme, we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module “Preceptorship for Healthcare” (AP7026).
Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.
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