Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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.
Main duties of the job
A School Nurse is someone who is:
* dynamic and innovative, who embraces challenge
* wanting to help children, families and young people to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing
* able to support and respond to children, young people and families most in need
* wanting to help safeguard children and young people of Gloucestershire at risk of harm
* 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
* enthusiastic and motivated to develop and deliver plans to improve health outcomes for individuals, families and communities
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Job responsibilities
* 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.
Person Specification
* Demonstrates an understanding of public health nursing in application
* Has some knowledge/experience of safeguarding children
* Has previous experience of working with children and families
Attributes
* Strong time management and organisation skills
* Shows emotional strength and resilience
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.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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