Employer Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Cygnet Park Town Peterborough Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 08/05/2025
Family Nurse
Band 7
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
Are you an experienced family nurse, registered nurse or midwife with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?
We are offering a variety of full and part-time vacancies to be part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Family Nurse Partnership team!
We are looking for someone who is passionate about working alongside young parents to deliver this carefully designed programme, offering young parents a chance to transform their own life chances and those of their babies.
If you're passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would like to hear from you.
You must hold a first-level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda, in particular the Healthy Child Programme, possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children, and meet the requirements of the person specification.
Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (first training session 14th-18th July 2025)
Main duties of the job
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parent’s economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role.
The role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. The post holder will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family Nurses will be expected to work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.
As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.
Peterborough & Cambridgeshire is a large county and travel around the county is an expectation of this role.
Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People’s Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon–Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of, and across teams. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children & Young People’s Health Services.
To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.
To use the programme materials and methods in the clients’ homes in order to achieve the following:
1. Improve the outcomes of pregnancy
2. Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them;
3. Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education and find work.
To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.
To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
To participate in continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme implemented with fidelity.
To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.
To be part of a 0-19 team, working within a locality leadership team to support Cambridgeshire Children & Young People’s Health Service delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard.
PROFESSIONAL
Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model
Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies
Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively
Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown
Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments
Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery
Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions
Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children
Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family solutions
Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating FSP and taking lead professional role where required
At all times keep the safety of the baby and young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate
Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting
Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority
Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of children’s growth and language skills
Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services
Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines referring to FNP lead where appropriate
Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme
Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves
Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records
Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board
Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery
Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures
Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance
Be aware of, inform and act as a credible role model in line with CCS objectives, approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives
ADMINISTRATIVE
Provide timely and accurate data to monitor the programme fidelity and for research purposes
Maintain own caseload files and have good keyboard skills
Input FNP data into TURAS database and produce individual reports relating to own caseload to monitor programme fidelity
Use computer software to create reports for other professionals and safeguarding meetings as required
Utilise FNP resources to plan for visits and develop packages of materials for these
TEAM
Participate fully in: team activities, collaborating with others to achieve team goals and quality improvement measures
Participate in quality improvement efforts with colleagues
Audit own performance and participate in performance review with supervisor
Elicit and consider differing viewpoints when analysing complex issues
Recognise the accomplishments of team colleagues
Support a safe environment for open discussion
Prioritise work; manage time effectively by utilising individual skills, knowledge and competencies
Provide mentoring for new team members, advice, supervision, training and expertise to colleagues and to team Quality Support Officer as required
Mentor Young Parent Nursery Nurses to ensure the highest quality care is offered to young parents in Cambridgeshire
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Assess own learning needs and agree strategies to meet them with the supervisor
Actively engage in skill building to meet all competency requirements
Successfully complete the learning programme required to deliver the FNP programme, including team based and face to face elements.
Undertake additional professional development as required
Prepare for and actively engage in weekly individual supervision
Undertake joint visits with supervisor every four months
Attend and participate in two-weekly case discussions and staff meetings
Keep informed of current healthcare and parenting developments to provide high quality home visiting services
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE/QUALITY
Maintain professional registration and portfolio in line with NMC requirements
Participate in individual clinical/safeguarding and preceptorship, mentorship with the team
Support and facilitate the training and development of other team members who needs to improve service delivery
MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THE ROLE
Recruiting, engaging and retaining families on the FNP programme and following programme requirements
Effectively managing and emotional intensity of the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and client
Working within complex family circumstances, including situations of safeguarding children
Being able to learn and assimilate a large volume of highly complex new information in a very short space of time and having the necessary skills to quickly apply new knowledge and skills to the practical work environment
Maintain the interest and enthusiasm of the recruited families on the FNP Programme over a two and half a year period
Working with a structured programme whilst adapting to the requirement of each individual client and visit
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
* NMC registered
* Degree level or equivalent experience
* Qualified Family Nurse
* Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification
Experience
* 2 years experience of working with families in deprived communities
* 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting
* Experience of clinical supervision
* Experience of working with Young Parents
* Experience of safeguarding children
* Experience of working with young people
* Experience of delivering training to small groups of health and allied professionals
* Experience of delivering group supervision
* Experience of delivering the Family Nurse Partnership Programme
* Knowledge of the research base of FNP
* Experience of delivering safeguarding supervision to others
Knowledge & Skills
* Understanding the difference between motivational approaches and advice giving
* Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
* Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
* Able to work effectively in a team, supporting and championing others and challenging colleagues’ views and attitudes when necessary
* Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
* Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex situations
* Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
* Willingness to prepare for and engage in and lead on clinical and managerial supervision, team learning and role play sessions
* Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
* Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing with exceptional analytical skills and ability to write Voice of the child statements
* Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
* Ability to be strengths based, positive and resilient
* Able to work effectively with diverse groups
* Computer skills to create reports, use clinical systems, access email, read excel spreadsheets etc. Able to analyse numerical data
* Knowledge of up to date National and local Safeguarding policies
* Able to evidence understanding of the theories underpinning FNP - Attachment theory, self-efficacy theory, human ecology theory,
* Demonstrate understanding of parent/infant mental health
* Experience of using motivational interviewing techniques
* Demonstrate understanding of complexities of behaviour change
On April 1 st 2025, the Boards of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust will come together to deliver services as a group, with a singular board operating across both organisations. Both trusts are high performing specialist community health and care providers working in the East of England. Both have a strong track record, with the highest ratings from the Care Quality Commission, best in class NHS staff survey outcomes, and a decade of experience in innovation and clinical development.
The group model provides health and care services to a population of 3.2 million in their homes and neighbourhoods. We provide care that supports people from the very beginning to the very end of their lives.
We will remain 2 separate employers until further notice and the specific role being advertised will be in employed by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
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Name Lisa Ives Job title Family Nurse Supervisor Email address lisa.ives@nhs.net Telephone number 07881 204877 Additional information
Samantha Usher - Quality Support Officer
Samantha.usher1@nhs.net
Family Nurse Partnership Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
The Oak Tree Centre
Huntingdon
PE29 7HN
Tel: 01480 425385
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