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South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
About
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) provides the hospital services to South Warwickshire from four hospitals:
- Warwick Hospital
- Leamington Spa Hospital
- Stratford Hospital
- Ellen Badger Hospital
We also deliver out-of-hospital community services to the whole of Warwickshire and beyond serving a population of more than half a million from various clinics. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
What is a Foundation Trust?
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 March 2010. A foundation trust status gives us greater freedom to manage our own affairs, and makes us more directly accountable to local people through our Members, who are drawn from the local population and staff.
We are managed by a Board of Directors and the Trust is overseen by our Council of Governors. Find out more about our organisational structure and meetings and papers.
We continue to be part of the NHS and treat patients in accordance with core NHS principles – healthcare that is provided according to clinical need, not ability to pay, that it is free at the point of delivery, and that it meets the needs of everyone.
Our Members actively influence the progress of the Trust and help us to be genuinely patient-centred in every aspect. Find out about becoming a Member.
Staff Nurse in Solihull School Nursing
Closed for applications on: 19-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 19-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Solihull School Nursing Team
- Address
- Cranmore Place
- Town
- Solihull
- Postcode
- B90 4RZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Warwickshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- School Nursing
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust have recently completed the construction of a multi-storey car park at our Warwick Hospital site which has allowed us to reduce waiting times for car parking passes.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Job overview
Staff Nurse in SOLIHULL School Nursing
Base: Solihull (Cranmore Place), B90 4RZ
Band: 5 Staff Nurse
Hours: Full-time / part time considered
We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse, with a minimum 2 years post registration experience to join our dynamic and enthusiastic school nursing team.
As a Staff Nurse in the School Nursing Team, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme (5-19), undertake assessments, interventions and Public Health Initiatives to give children the very best start for a healthy life.
You will need excellent organisational and personal skills, be an excellent communicator who can actively promote inter-agency working between other professionals and educational staff.
Having experience working in the Community or in a Paediatric Nursing Setting and knowledge of Child Development, Health Promotion, Public Health and Safeguarding Children would be an advantage.
You should have evidence of Continued Professional Development you will also require an enhanced DBS and be able to meet the travel requirements of the role. In return we offer a happy supportive team, excellent learning and development opportunities and a commitment to personal and professional development.
Informal enquires to Charlotte Atkins 07813362630 or Mary O'Sullivan 07814990407
Advert
The post holder will be responsible for delivering and evaluating preventative services and universal Public Health Programmes, as set out in the Healthy Child Programme (HCP 5-19) (DH) for school aged children and young people, within both school and the surrounding community. Undertake caseload work allocated by the school nurse including accepting and responding to re-assigned alerts, undertake secondary assessments, deliver brief interventions and feedback progress to the School Nurse. Work with Children, young people, families, schools and communities to ensure the role and function of the School Nursing Service and how to access the service both outside of school hours and throughout the calendar year is known.
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Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population. Supporting specific Public Health Initiatives for children and young people, e.g. sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles, emotional health. Support health needs assessment of reception Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) Year 6 and 9 Cohorts. Responding to identified need/allocated alerts and feeding back to school nurse outcome of intervention as required. Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the school nurse as required. Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education. Provide fortnightly drop-in session in senior schools, provide advice/support and referral as appropriate. Support the school nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, e.g. Chimat, Public Health Observatory to inform work undertaken. Undertake health need assessments allocated by the school nurse, of children and young people, including, Child Protection Health Assessments reporting back findings to the School Nurse. Identify and support children, young people and families in need of Universal Plus Services through The Team Around the Family (TAF) framework process. Work with parents, carers, specialist health professionals and others to develop and review in-school care plans for pupils with complex health needs and long-term conditions annually or sooner if required. Including providing or coordinating support, education and training for families, carers and school staff. Support children, young people and families during transition into school, and from primary to secondary including reviewing reception and year six questionnaires, acting on concerns raised, plan and evaluate support given and feedback to school nurse as required. Have knowledge and understanding of Solihull Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Children’s services when a child or young person is deemed at risk. As delegated by the school nurse provide written reports and chronologies as required, participating in strategies, initial case conferences, review case conferences and core groups where health needs are identified, and feeding back to the school nurse. Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children. Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per the Trust Essential Skills policy. Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed. Work with the School Nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based. Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme when opportunities arise with contacts with children, young people and families. Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7 if required. In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, e.g. text, phone calls. Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required Maintain accurate records at all times, in line with trust policy. Ensure that confidentiality is upheld at all times, as per trust guidelines. Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role ensuring that training completed follows the essential skills policy including regular appraisal. Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision. Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information. Measurable Result Areas KPIs for the service are achieved. Alerts from on line health needs assessents are responded to within agreed timescale. Promote a whole school approach to obesity; proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being obese (95 percentile) and 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight. Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services. Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery. Communications and Working Relationships Support new staff and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking a mentor/preceptor role. Delegate work appropriately to School Nurse Assistants. Supervise, mentor and assess nursing students where required and Post registration students undertaking community experience. Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills. Undertake appraisals for the skill mix team to promote staff development. Prioritise and attend team meetings to ensure effective communication within and outside the team. Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy. Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role. |
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).
Please check your TRAC account regularly and ensure your email is set up to accept messages so they don't go into your junk/spam folder.
We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.
Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
All South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust sites are smoke free. We feel it’s a great way to help our patients, visitors and staff stay healthy.
The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability of all four organisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Must hold the qualification of RGN/RSCN Adult/Child Nurse and registered on the NMC.
- Willingness to undertake further training as required including the specialist practitioner course.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Course, ability to demonstrate leadership skills.
- Mentoring & Assessing, e.g., 998, CPD 308, C&G 730RegisteredNurse, assessor/ supervisor course.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have post registration experience, minimum of 12 months.
- Must have experience of working with children, young people and /or families.
- Must have experience of working in teams
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of key performance indicators and how they influence service delivery
Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with children young people, families and other professionals
- Have an understanding and awareness of LSCP Child Protection policies and procedures.
- Must be able to support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the public health role in school nursing
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge of further reading
- Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word.
- Must possess basic social media skills to access and post on social media platforms eg face book, twitter and Instagram.
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to prioritise work delegated.
- Must have knowledge of the public health role in school nursing, and demonstrate issues affecting children & young people.
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the department.
- Must have knowledge of clinical supervision.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressurised situations
- Demonstrates compassion and empathy
- Self-motivated and can motivate and inspire others
- Professional presentation and communication style
Desirable criteria
- Embraces innovation and creativity
Other
Essential criteria
- Must have a full driving licence, and access to a vehicle to undertake the community role
- Must be willing to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
- Must be legally entitled to work in this country
- Must be prepared to work between 8am – 6pm and weekend if required
- All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anita Rutherford-Kerr
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/Locality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500078235
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