Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse
Band 6
Main area: School Health - Sefton Grade Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 9 months (to cover maternity leave)
Hours: Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-CC6969186
Site: Sefton Town, Southport
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 21/03/2025
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
The post holders will provide universal and targeted support within a defined skill mix team and work collaboratively with partner agencies across the spectrum of education, social care, and non-statutory organisations. The successful candidates will hold case responsibility for identified cohorts of children and young people across the continuum of need, including children/young people in mainstream/alternate education, pupil referral units, and elective home education.
Applicants must hold current NMC registration as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Health).
Main duties of the job
1. Work in partnership with other statutory and voluntary organisations in the delivery of quality, integrated services to school-age children, their parents, and carers.
2. Provide proactive and responsive services, delivered flexibly across a range of settings to meet service user needs.
3. Provide leadership within the team, acting as a positive role model for junior staff by demonstrating excellent standards of practice.
4. Undertake a mentorship role to a range of students on placement within the service and as a preceptor in support of new staff members.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Work with individuals, families, carers, communities, Primary Healthcare Teams and other agencies to undertake a comprehensive specialist assessment of patients/service users in order to inform a personalised plan of care/intervention.
2. Manage clinical caseloads efficiently and effectively.
3. Formulate and deliver an individual treatment programme using specialist assessment, reasoning, and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and a range of treatment options.
4. Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes using an accepted/appropriate range of techniques as required.
5. Demonstrate the promotion of healthy lifestyle practices to the general public by utilising teaching skills.
6. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
7. Act as a non-medical prescriber, where indicated and following completion of the relevant training, while working within their sphere of clinical practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
* SCPHN (SN) Qualification registered with the NMC
Experience
* Actively involved in professional development
* Nurse Immuniser (or willing to undertake training and practice)
* Clinical Governance and Risk Management
* Experience of research/audit/evaluation
* Evidence of ability to prioritise
* Evidence of ability to manage caseload
* Ability to motivate/negotiate with and influence others
Skills
* Understanding of local and national influences on health care delivery
* Knowledge of Health Promotion and Education
* Knowledge of Childhood Immunisation Programmes
* Knowledge of Child development, screening, and assessments
* Knowledge of Child Safeguarding issues
* Demonstrate excellent Communication Skills – spoken, written, and IT
* Ability to travel, for work purposes, within the Mersey Care area
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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