Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based early intervention programme aimed at improving antenatal health, child health, and development outcomes, along with enhancing parents' economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.
The post holder is responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality Support Officer. This includes providing in-depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, overseeing recruitment and engagement of hard-to-reach families, building local stakeholder relationships, and facilitating continual learning and service improvement. In addition, they will hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.
This demanding role combines clinical practice with team leadership and supervisory responsibilities, requiring a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as a commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme.
Main duties of the job
1. Undertake home visits in accordance with the FNP model.
2. Use high-level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Implement strengths-based, solution-focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
3. Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
4. Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g., safeguarding children or family breakdown.
5. 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.
About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
At HDFT, we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff, valuing Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork, and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
* A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
* Staff Recognition - regular appraisals, Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, and annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
* Employee Support and wellbeing - a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service, and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nursing/midwifery qualification and registered with the NMC.
Experience
* At least 2 years of experience in midwifery, child health, public health, and home visiting.
* Supervision of other practitioners.
* Experience leading a team.
* Experience of working with young people.
* Project management experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, necessitating a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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