Job summary
- Main area
- School Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6417300-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whitchurch Community Hospital
- Town
- Whitchurch
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Healthy Child Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
The Shropshire School Nursing Service covers from Oswestry to Ludlow and Bridgnorth to Market Drayton and Whitchurch. Although we cover a large rural area, we are a close, friendly, respectful and supportive team. We are looking for motivated, innovative applicants to join our expanding team.
The Children, Young People and their families are at the heart of everything we do. If you are client-focused, with a strong sense of advocacy and a belief in equitable services, we would love to hear from you! Our practitioners are autonomous and we welcome applications from individuals who would describe themselves as independent, confident and committed to deliver a quality service.
We are advertising for a Healthy Child Practitioner to cover a caseload in Whitchurch. We are a 9-5, Monday – Friday service and are committed to working flexibly.
If you would like to discuss any of our current opportunities, please contact: Kat Sealey on 07964 134121.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
We welcome applications from people with extensive experience working with children, young people and their families, you must hold a relevant Level 3 qualification.
The post involved travelling around the county and would best suit a car driver with access to a vehicle that can be used for work.
Our Healthy Child Practitioners work closely with support workers, staff nurses and specialist public health nurses to provide health education and promotion to children, young people and their families. The role requires you to communicate well with different ages groups and provide consistent public Health information and signposting to our clients. We also work closely with vulnerable families and individuals as well as with a wide multi-agency team of professionals.
More information about the role is available by researching the Healthy Child Programme.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • An Early Years qualification at Level 3. i.e., Early Years Care & Education, Childcare & Education, or equivalent
- • Other relevant short courses (e.g., Attachment, Observation and Planning)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • A wide range of community based, children related or transferable experience
- • Experience in enabling parents/Carers/professionals to carry out tasks
- • Experience of accurate observation of children’s communication/interaction with others – children and adults
- • Significant post qualification experience including identifying needs associated with emotional health and wellbeing
- • Evidence of continual professional development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • IT skills and computer literacy
- • Knowledge of child development and knowledge and skills of behavior management
- • Enable active participation of the family in decision making.
- • Evidence of health promotion activities
- • Knowledge of Child Protection legislation
- • Ability to establish good working relationships with child and family
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Kat Sealey
- Job title
- Team Lead - Shropshire School Nursing Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07964 134121
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