Community Staff Nurse Health Visiting Coventry
Job Description
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you interested in working within the Health Visiting service? We have a brand new opportunity for you to come and join us as a band 5 Community Staff Nurse, becoming part of our current dedicated Health Visiting service within Coventry's unique Family Health and Lifestyle services, supporting the offer of the Healthy Child Programme, 0-5 year old.
Our integrated offer allows our teams to work closely with each service including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Infant Feeding, Stop smoking in pregnancy, Be Active Be Healthy, FNP and MAMTA. We have excellent partnership working with Early Help and have a wealth of valuable external, third sector organisations who work closely with each other to support the families within Coventry.
The service works to provide a safe, effective and high quality service to clients using research-based evidence to inform practice within agreed professional standards. This role will play a key part in the development and safe delivery of 0-5 services, utilising best available evidence to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people especially those from disadvantaged groups.
This new role requires you to be a qualified nurse, have an interest in working with children and an interest in progression to complete the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse training.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a Registered Nurse who will work within the service under the line management of the Health Visitor / Clinical Lead.
The post holder will have a delegated caseload under supervision of the Health Visitor and other senior staff members.
The post holder will work in partnership with the Multi-Disciplinary Team, and other agencies, to ensure that excellent standards of care are provided.
The post holder will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve The Healthy Child Programme (Department of Health, 2021).
The Health visiting service works to provide a safe, effective and high quality service to clients using research-based evidence to inform practice within agreed professional standards.
The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.
The Health Visitor Community Staff Nurse will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed needs. Ensuring the programme is delivered in partnership with other statutory and non-statutory agencies.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
This role will play a key part in the development and safe delivery of 0-5 services, utilising best available evidence to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people especially those from disadvantaged groups.
This is a developmental role with the expectation of undertaking further training and completion in relation to the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse role.
To support the development of the Coventry Health Visiting service, working in partnership with other Family Health & Lifestyle services including School Nursing, Be Active Be Healthy, Infant feeding, Stop Smoking in Pregnancy teams and MAMTA. The Local Authority, Partner agencies, Early Help and voluntary sector agencies.
To act as a role model and be professional at all times adhering to the current NMC Code.
To support the delivery of 0-5 Universal Services as well as the Healthy Child Programme.
To support and assist Health Visitors and Community Nursery Nurses within skill mix teams.
To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-5 Health Visiting service.
To participate in Health Education programmes and health promotion activities on a multi-disciplinary basis as agreed by the 0-5 services in partnership with external agencies.
To support Health Visitors and participate, if required, in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports and to engage with clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for safeguarding children.
Main Duties
Manage own workload as part of the team, under the supervision of the Health Visitor. This would involve offering a blended approach of virtual and home visiting.
Report all untoward incidents and assist with the development and implementation of appropriate action plans.
Meet with team members on a regular basis to discuss, report and evaluate patient care and to report early identification of children and families needing support through use of single assessment process, if required to include other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Attend relevant meetings as delegated by the Health Visitor / Clinical Lead and be expected to feed back.
To support the team and service to plan, implement and evaluate health enhancing activities through home visiting, community development, clinic, workshops, technology and parenting support.
To actively lead and support clinical supervision for staff in bands 2, 3 and 4 and also to actively receive clinical supervision.
To assist in the recruitment and selection of staff for the team. To participate in induction and orientation programmes, this will include acting as preceptors for newly qualified staff and Community Nursery nurses.
To promote a continuous learning environment for colleagues and students within the Trust.
Ensure that all staff have access to information that enables them to practice safely and effectively.
Develop an understanding of Government Agendas in relation to Children/Families.
To begin to develop the necessary skills to be an effective leader and role model for successive programme participants.
Clinical Skills
To act as a registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse.
Communicate changes to a Health Visitor / Clinical Lead on a daily basis in order to aid care planning.
Manage own workload as part of the team by offering a blended approach of virtual and home visits.
Meet with team members on a regular basis to discuss report and evaluate patient care.
Support Clinical Lead with appraisals/ PDRs for staff Band 4 and below.
Works as an autonomous practitioner and taking responsibility for the care they give to service users but within their own limits of competency and confidence.
Actively participates in monitoring health needs of children including those children with safeguarding plans, including undertaking Child Health review assessments for Children in Care, as required by the Local Authority to assess the health and wellbeing of children living in current foster care placements.
To provide advice and information to parents who are new to the area regarding the Health Visiting offer and signpost to partner agencies as required. To carry out a baseline health assessment to include medical history and weight and height assessment. To observe developmental assessment of the child/children who are over 1 years old and their family, unless there are identified child protection or special needs within the family. If any additional needs are identified to refer back to the Health Visitor.
To follow up with parents/ carers any Accident and Emergency attendances and give advice as necessary as per the Health Visitor standard.
To provide parents/carers with accurate and detailed knowledge of immunisations including contraindications, side effects, after care and childs immunisation status. To liaise with GP surgeries to identify children who have not yet received their immunisations to help support families with the uptake of their childs immunisation programme.
Provide guidance to junior staff, ensuring safe and best practice within the Health Visiting team in the absence of the Health ...
