Community nursery nurse

Job responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams
• Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/ understanding e.g. child protection, domestic violence bereavement and where English is not the first language.
• Ensure effective communication with all members of multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency partners, in particular childrens centres, early years providers, social services and GP practices.
• Ensure all information about patients is treated confidentially and comply with trust policies on data protection, information sharing and governance
• Participate in team and other meetings as required

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• A recognised child care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC national diploma
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification relevant experience
• A sound knowledge of child development
• Communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams.
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients.
• Possessing an up to date personal development plan showing evidence of continuing professional development
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• Assess, implement and plan services under the guidance of the community health nurse/health visitor
• Ability to use observation skills and feedback to team members
• Evaluate individual and community health care programmes in collaboration with the community health nurse/health visitor

1. Planning and organisational skills

• Responsible for planning own work
• To facilitate group work on relevant health promotion topics
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is up to date in line with organisational policy

1. Physical skills

• Keyboard skills
• Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner

1. Responsibility for client care

• To work in collaboration with the service in implementing and evaluating individual and community health care programmes
• To participate in the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities.
• To implement and plan services with individual families under the guidance of the health visitor
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult protection guidelines and procedures
• Ensure effective communication with clients and colleagues
• To ensure the provision of a high quality service that is led by client need and is evidence based
• Access clinical supervision as per trust policy

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• To support the health visiting team in service and practice development initiatives to improve standards and outcomes.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Comply with the trusts standing orders and standing financial instructions
• Responsible for the safe and careful use of equipment in clinics and during home visits (e.g. weighing scales)

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• To adhere to all organisational policy and procedures
• To provide support and advice to other colleagues within the team.

1. Responsibilities for information resources

• Responsibility for timely accurate record keeping and safeguarding client confidentiality by adhering to caldicott principles
• Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, management and evaluation.

Please see the JD attached for further information

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• experience of working with children
• Nursery Nurse Qualification

Desirable

• Community experience
• Good computer skills and record keeping

diserable

Essential

• experience of community working

Essential

Essential

• good interpersonal skills
• good communication skills

MCH values

Essential

• Good understanding of MCH values

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Snapdragons centre

Cliffe road

Strood Rochester Kent

ME2 3FF

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)