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Job overview

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based early intervention programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development outcomes along with improvements to parents’ economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.

The post holder is responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality Support Officer. This includes providing in-depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for the quality of programme replication according to the licence, overseeing recruitment and engagement of hard to reach families, building local stakeholder relationships and facilitating continual learning and service improvement. In addition, they will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.

This is a demanding role combining clinical practice with a team leader and supervisory role, which requires a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme.

Main duties of the job

1.         Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model. 

2.         Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and  often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.

3.         Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and  other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme  effectively.

4.         Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.

5.         Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.

For more information please refer to the attached job description 

Working for our organisation

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East. 

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, HDFT could be the place for you! 

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service. 

Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application. 

Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.