36 hours per week & 30 hour post available
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.
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.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Melanie Mills Job title: Clinical Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07810156604