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Job overview

A rare opportunity is currently available to work in the School Nursing Service term as a School and Community Health Facilitator, either full time or part time.  

-  Are you looking for a new challenge?

- Do you have an interest in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families? 

- Do you enjoy facilitating small groups?

-  Are you flexible, self-motivated and be able to work both independently and as part of a team?  

- Do you have the ability to drive and travel to various community settings and schools?

In Gloucestershire the School and Community Health Facilitator will work within the School Nursing Service providing school entry vision screening, National Child Measurement Programme and advice and support for children and families either one to one or in facilitated groups in the community.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a School and Community Health Facilitator

• to undertake School Entry Screening programmes,
• to provide healthy lifestyle interventions for children and their families
• to support the School Nursing Service delivering packages of care to families on an individual basis and in groups
• to facilitate discussions with groups of parents about overcoming common health issues in children
• to facilitate health promotion groups for parents

Ideally you will have experience of working with children.  Good IT skills are essential together with a commitment to developing innovative ways of delivering services.  You will receive training and work through competencies and have further opportunities to develop professionally.

Wellbeing of our colleagues is a high priority and as well as support from your line manager and team colleagues we offer a range of workplace benefits.  You will be supported through and induction programme and competency based learning programme.  There are many opportunities for further learning and training.

In Gloucestershire we are committed to ensuring agile and mobile working.  You will have opportunities to work with children and parents face to face and over Microsoft Teams.  You will be using software packages to support your screening programmes with small children in schools.  

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.