Main area: School Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (There are 2 posts available 2 x 37.5 hours all year round.)
Job ref: 381-WC-6752885
Employer: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: SWB NHS Trust
Town: Rowley Regis
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/12/2024 23:59
School Health Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Sandwell School Health Nursing team are innovative, unique and motivated health professionals. The team engages with children, young people, families and communities in addressing the public health agenda.
Main duties of the job
Support workers within Sandwell School Nursing team will work together to support the delivery of public health agenda across Sandwell. Support workers work together with qualified staff to deliver universal services such as health promotion as well targeted support for the school aged population.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell School Health Nursing team is a service sitting within Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. They are innovative, unique and motivated health professionals who work tirelessly across the authority to support the school age population of Sandwell.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person specification
Other
* Full driving licence
* Access to a vehicle
Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people
* Relevant experience of using a keyboard and computers
Qualifications
* NVQ 3 in Health Care or equivalent
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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