We are looking for a enthusiastic, motivated, self-organised dedicated nurse to join our school health team.
The role will require candidates to have excellent communication skills, IT skills, organisational and clinical skills when supporting and working with children, young people, parents, professionals and multi-agencies.
The aim of this role is to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population within Sefton, ensuring we share the best public health information and Interventions. You will also have responsibility for a safeguarding caseload, which exposes staff to complex public health issues.
A thorough preceptorship/induction programme will be offered to successful applicants, which will include regular supervision and safeguarding support.
The Children’s service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependent on assessed need. The service offers every child/family a program of screening, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support
parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Program 0 – 19 years (DH, 2023).
The Community Staff Nurse will work predominantly as part of the School Nursing team to promote and improve health and well-being of school aged children and young people to reduce health inequalities. The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Program 5-19 - up to age 25 for SEN children/young people within the
team using evidence based practice and the Framework for Assessment (DH 2002). 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 post holder may have responsibility for allocated schools as the named health professional, and will work as part of the SCPHN team with delegated responsibility for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of program of care for children, young people and families.
The post holder will have an awareness of the immunisations programme for the neighbourhood school population and be available as part of the wider teams to support in the delivery of the school aged programme and in response to disease outbreaks.
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. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Patricia Wood Job title: Team manager Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07769492533
Tracy Styles - Team Manager - 07900 226091
