Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (Term Time Hours)
- Hours
- Full time
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 277-6824216-CYP-A
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woolwich Common Hub
- Town
- Woolwich
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/01/2025
Employer heading
Young Greenwich School Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
Exciting opportunities have arisen for a qualified School Nurse (SCPHN) to join our dynamic Young Greenwich Health team, full-time, for secondment cover for 7 months.
Young Greenwich is a new integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The programme is led by Oxleas and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together with METRO form the Young Greenwich Partnership.
Young Greenwich will deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for pupils in schools into community-based activities and support and vice versa.
The successful candidate needs to be highly motivated and enthusiastic delivering the healthy child programme and model of community health across schools in the south of Greenwich. We are looking for a qualified SCPHN: School Nurse that possess excellent communication skills and have a forward thinking approach to new ways of working within our partnership in youth hubs including attending evening sessions.
You must be a registered nurse and hold the SCPHN: School Nurse pathway degree with sexual health, safeguarding and emotional health knowledge desirable. Applicants must have a current driving licence with access to a car daily.
In return Oxleas will support the post with supervision, appropriate training and self-development opportunities and a network of peer support. Oxleas operate a family friendly policy.
Main duties of the job
- Caseload management for named schools
- Safeguarding
- Delivering drop in sessions in named Secondary schools
- Early evening integration with hub sessions
- Delivering the Healthy Child Programme across the hub catchment
- Support the student placements from Universities
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, overseeing and participating in the delivery of the key touch-points / health and wellbeing reviews as part of the multi-disciplinary team
- To liaise effectively with colleagues within Young Greenwich and partner organisations to ensure care for children and families is timely, well-coordinated and effective
- To collate information and ensure appropriate referral for children with on-going health needs to relevant services
- Be proactive in the development, review and promotion of the Young Greenwich service
- To analyse health needs to inform the development of Young Greenwich strategies
- To work according to local and national safeguarding children policies and guidance, acting as a specialist health resource and contributing to strategy meetings, initial case conferences and other safeguarding meetings where a health need is identified and participate in the decision making process
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of own responsibilities and contribute to team working and development of partnership initiatives
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN and SCPHN
Desirable criteria
- Sexual Health
- Safeguarding
- Emotional Health
Car Driver
Essential criteria
- Car, full UK licence
Learning
Essential criteria
- Recent updated learning
- Community experience
- Mentorship / PA / PS
IT Skills
Essential criteria
- NHS IT system or equivalent noted
- Microsoft programmes noted
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
- Zipora Govere
- Job title
- Head of Young Greenwich School Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07990393701
- Additional information
Celine Cook, Young Greenwich Team Manager on 07917 552781 or 0208 320 5734
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