The Community Nursery Nurse works within the Slough 0-19 (25) integrated service.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who is passionate about delivering public health to the local community. This role would be ideal for someone looking for a new challenge, to join our team with many opportunities for development.
The ideal candidate will be a hardworking and adaptable individual who is passionate about high-quality teamwork. The post holder needs to be able to evaluate and prioritise work, responding quickly to daily changes in work pattern.
Package Description:
You will feel valued as a Community Nursery Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
1. Starting salary of £24,000 plus Group Pension.
2. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats.
3. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest rates.
4. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
5. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
6. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
7. The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Main Responsibilities:
To deliver a public health message in schools, nurseries, family homes, and community settings. Responsibilities include:
1. Providing information and advice to families on issues such as sleep routines, behaviour management, weaning, and toilet training.
2. Advising on home safety.
3. Completing development reviews as part of the Healthy Child Programme Universal offer.
4. Health promotion such as immunisations, diet, and stopping smoking.
5. Delivering the Healthy Child Programme, in line with local standard operating guidance.
6. Using a range of skills to communicate, taking account of culture, ethnicity, disabilities, developmental age, and environment.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate:
One of the qualifications below or equivalent:
1. BTEC National Diploma in Children's Care, Learning and Development.
2. CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education.
3. NVQ Level 3 in Children's Care, Learning and Development.
Additionally, the ideal candidate should have:
1. A good understanding of normal child development.
2. Understanding of data protection, confidentiality, and disability issues.
3. Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme (DH 2009).
4. Experience in assessing children’s development and making referrals to other professionals as necessary.
5. Ability to give advice on topics such as weaning, toilet training, sleep routines, etc.
6. Presenting skills either face-to-face or via technology.
7. An imaginative and creative approach to planning activities and group sessions.
Other requirements: Car driver with own car insured for business use.
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
About The Company:
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes.
We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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