Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 813-265-0624-LR-H
- Employer
- Medway Community Healthcare CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Snapdragons
- Town
- Medway
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead school nurse
Band 7
Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:
- is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked ‘Good’ by the CQC;
- is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
- is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
- offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
- and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?
Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.
Job overview
- Are you an experienced School Nurse?
- Are you looking for a new challenge that allows you to have a mix of caseload and line management?
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the school health service to recruit an experienced school nurse who is committed to leading service change and embedding best practice.
Main duties of the job
The role is to work alongside the existing lead school nurses to help build our service and develop new ways of working.
The responsibilities will include delivering public health messages; providing targeted support to those children and families with identified needs including inter agency working to ensure protection from harm; and in liaison with clinical lead, be responsible for the day-to-day management of the team.
You should also demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to be adaptable and flexible. You will demonstrate leadership skills and be able to show awareness of developments in school nursing, making changes to clinical practice as required.
Working for our organisation
So what else?
· This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
· We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
· We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
· You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
· Informal visits can be arranged on request.
· We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
· MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Communication and relationship skills
- Communicate complex information concisely to teams
- Communicate sensitive client/organisational/staff information to other healthcare professionals
- Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in a variety of formats overcoming barriers to understanding using discretion and tact
- To develop and deliver training sessions and relate theory to practice
- To ensure effective communication between students, university and managers.
- Provide support to the Clinical Lead, keeping them informed regularly on team developments and significant issues
- Knowledge, training and experience
- Registered Nurse
- Educated to degree level or equivalent; master’s level desirable
- Diploma/Degree SCPHN – School Nursing
- Nurse prescribing qualification
- Mentorship
- Broad base of clinical experience with highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through experience and specialist training
- Experience of clinical audit/ quality improvement initiatives
- Knowledge of new interventions and developments
- Working knowledge of principles of clinical governance and their application
- To deliver training to staff on specialist subject.
- To act as a resource within School Health sharing best practice and acting as a clinical role model within the team by demonstrating high levels of clinical practice.
- To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date
- Analytical and judgement skills
- Provide clinical expertise and knowledge
- Assessment of clients on specialist caseload
- Analyse audit findings and prepare detailed recommendations and action plans
- Planning and organisational skills
- Plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care
- Plan and Prioritise own workload
- Planning and organisation of training programmes
- Physical skills
- Keyboard skills
- Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner to undertake home visits, attend meetings etc
- Responsibility for client care
- Assess client’s health and well-being needs
- Plan, deliver and evaluate specialised health care programmes to meet clients’ needs; provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to the staff within Children’s Services
- Provide advice through training, education and interventions
- Safeguard the client group by adhering to child/adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in adult/child protection proceedings when appropriate
- To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes
- To ensure evidence-based health education and promotion to clients
- To ensure close collaboration with other agencies to enable robust pathway planning and service delivery in line with the client’s needs.
- Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
- Participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service
- To assist and support the continual review, development and improvement of children’s services
- To record and submit clinical activity and information as requested
- Participate in the development, implementation and review of service development plans and policies
- Comment on policy and protocol development
- To participate in clinical incident reporting and facilitate changes to reduce risk
- Lead projects as agreed with the Clinical Lead, in line with national strategies, and personal skills and interest.
- Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
- Responsible for use of equipment and facilities
- Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
- Assist in educating, supporting and reviewing team members
- To assist with orientation programmes which familiarise new members of staff to the team
- Provides Specialist training programmes
- Support team members in assessing student and junior staff competencies
- Line management responsibility as agreed with the Clinical Lead.
- Responsibilities for information resources
- Ensure all records are updated and safeguard client’s confidentiality within legal and ethical principles (Caldicott) and Medway Community Healthcare data protection policies
- Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, community profiling and aid local development plans
- Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)
- Actively participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities leads clinical audits in specialist field
- Understanding the principles of research and the ability to pro-actively apply these to practice
- Freedom to act
- Guided by established policies and guidelines
- Professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
- Works independently as an autonomous practitioner
- Participate in new ideas and ways of working to support innovation, efficiencies and quality improvements as part of the leadership team.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years experience working as a School Nurse
- Experience developing and managing teams
- Safeguarding experience
- Leadership/innovation
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical supervision of staff
- Experience of facilitating safeguarding supervision
Values
Essential criteria
- Values
Desirable criteria
- values
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered School Nurse SCPHN
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- supervision qualification
MCH Values
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of MCH values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona McKenna
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Public Health Nursing - Schools
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985315367
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