School Nurse

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Full time
Do you want to make a tangible difference to people's lives, with the best of London on your doorstep? Site: The Causeway Town Teddington Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period: Yearly Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59 Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire. We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home. Job overview

To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative School Nursing services, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the School Health team to ensure delivery of a quality service to a cluster of high complexity schools. To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including head teachers, to ensure seamless delivery of services for school age children and young people. To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives to be visible in schools on a regular basis, as agreed within the partnership agreement. Main duties of the job

Providing a comprehensive School Nursing service to a defined population that meets the public health needs of local state schools and communities in line with the Healthy Child Programme and local service specifications. Contributing to the delivery of Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), including improving health and life chances for children, young people and families and safeguarding those at risk. To deliver the role in accordance with CLCH Trust values and behaviours. Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours! We can offer you: A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role. Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up). Flexible working options. Training, support and development in your career. Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required. Person specification

Qualifications

Registered Nurse/Midwife (current). Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nursing / or Differing in Practice in school nursing. Evidence of continuing post. Practice Assessor course. PSHE Course. Community nurse prescribing qualification or prepared to work towards. Experience

Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets. Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency working. Experience of organising and managing own workload. Experience of assessing, planning, and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans. Experience in providing practice-based learning support to others. Experience of evidence-based care. Experience of supervising students. Counselling qualification. Teaching qualification. Mental Health First Aid training. Skills

Knowledge of recent developments in primary care and community services. Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice. Current knowledge of safeguarding issues. Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance. IT, numeracy, and literacy skills. Key Attributes

Ability to be flexible and responsive to children/young people and organisational needs. Good communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to travel within geographical areas using varying modes of transport. Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job. Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date. At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN) Race Equality Network Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH. Employer certification / accreditation badges

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. Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.

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