Family Wellbeing Nurse

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Family Wellbeing Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 Agenda for Change salary and terms and conditions –including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
  
  

Job Introduction

Are you a compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse or Midwife looking to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people, and families?

Join our Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service as a Family Wellbeing Nurse within HCRG Care Group.

In this vital role, you will work as part of a dynamic Healthy Family Team to provide preventative and supportive health care services. With a strong public health focus, you will collaborate under the guidance of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to deliver the Healthy Child Programme

across various settings, including homes, Family Hubs, and community venues.

As a Family Wellbeing Nurse, you will play a crucial role in identifying and supporting vulnerable children, including those at risk of welfare and safety concerns. Your work will be pivotal in promoting health and wellbeing within our communities, ensuring that every child and family has access to the care and support they need to thrive.

If you are passionate about public health and are eager to join a team that values collaboration, care, and community impact, we would love to hear from you!

Main Responsibilities

• Partnering with children, families, and caregivers to identify health needs and coordinate appropriate interventions through the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service or other agencies.
• Updating Family Health Needs Assessments during routine contacts and consulting SCPHNs for significant changes.
• Conducting child health reviews at key ages and making referrals collaboratively with families.
• Triage and follow-up for children visiting A&E or minor injury units, offering health advice and liaising with SCPHNs or safeguarding teams as needed.
• Working with families requiring early help or reaching Child in Need thresholds, reporting to SCPHNs and safeguarding leads as appropriate.
• Supporting SCPHNs in child protection work, including health assessments and contributions to protection plans.
• Conducting health assessments and contributing to care plans for Looked After Children under SCPHN guidance.
• Facilitating groups and training for parents on common illnesses and chronic conditions.
• Leading 0–8 community health drop-ins and supporting targeted interventions through group or one-on-one sessions.
  
  

Please see the attached Job Description for the full person Specification.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Midwife
• Experience in working with children and families.
• Knowledge of national and local policy in Children’s Service and Public Health.
• Understanding of child and adolescent development.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment and ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people with the skills to build sustainable professional boundaries and appropriate relationships with young people
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues in plain language at all levels both within and outside the organisation.
• Ability to work alone and part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Willingness to work across all areas of South Essex to meet the needs of the service.
• Driving licence and access to vehicle for work purposes.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of behaviour change theory and methods
• Mentorship qualification
• An interest in undertaking the Specialist Community Public Health
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team , we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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