SCPHN School Nurse
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Camden School Nursing service to recruit highly motivated and innovative practitioners to join the School Nursing Service to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.
If you are interested in the role and are keen to show you are the right person for the job we want to hear from you, so please apply online now!
Please only apply if you are a Registered Nurse with a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) registration.
Main duties of the job
As an integral member of the Camden School Nursing service, you will be responsible for delivering the Healthy Child Programme in collaboration with the wider school health team. We offer excellent professional development opportunities along with formal one to one supervision and annual appraisal.
Working for our organisation
We are advertising for a post in our Camden School Nursing Service, within the Goodall division of Central and North West London NHS trust. Our trust values are Compassion, Respect, Empowerment and Partnership. There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To work in partnership with educational staff, health care professionals and other agencies to provide advice and support to children & young people, their parents and carers as required.
- Undertake appropriate training / updates related to public health issues in order to contribute towards meeting local and national Department of Health targets such as immunisations, teenage pregnancy & sexual health, smoking cessation and obesity.
- To carry out training sessions to other professionals on relevant health or medical issues and where appropriate, assist children and young people to manage their own health conditions independently.
- To undertake agreed health assessments on children & young people and ensure referrals, treatments and reviews are carried out as recommended and in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- To develop high quality packages of care for children & young people with medical needs, in partnership with other health professionals, education, parents & carers & other agencies as necessary.
- To be responsible for identifying children & young people requiring medical follow-up planning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN [NMC Registered] / RSCN Child Branch
- Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse (School Nursing or Children’s Community Nursing)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Continual Professional development
- Mentorship Preparation or equivalent
- Public Health Nursing (Children & Families)
- Sexual health (or equivalent)
- School Nurse Certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children in a professional capacity
- Working with families who have experienced trauma
- Proven post nursing registration experience
- Working with diverse communities
- Evidence to support experience of audit activity
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance.
- Knowledge of children with long term medical needs
- Understanding of the public health role of the school nurse
- Understanding of Equality & Valuing Diversity
- Knowledge of key documents and drivers informing school nursing practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
- Good computer literacy skills
- Ability to communicate in an effective way with people from a variety of backgrounds and different ages. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of team working
Desirable criteria
- Ability to demonstrate essential leadership skills
- Ability to reflect on clinical practice and to understand own limitations when dealing with emotive issues
- Ability to act as a mentor / preceptor to students and newly recruited colleagues
Abilities
Essential criteria
- Aware of own limitations and seek support from wider Team when dealing with highly emotive circumstances.
- Ability to manage difficult situations and conflict resolution
