SCPHN School Nurse Harrow

Cnwlnhshealthcharity; Harrow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Foundation Trust in Harrow seeks a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nurse to provide a proactive healthcare service for children and families. This role demands NMC registration and expertise in safeguarding, clinical leadership, and effective communication within multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will contribute to equitable health outcomes and quality service delivery. Opportunities for career development are also provided. Please apply promptly due to high response rates.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse or midwife required.
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.
• Ability to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality healthcare services to children and families.
• Engage in risk assessments to maintain safety.
• Supervise and provide clinical leadership to team members.

Skills

Communication skills

Risk assessment

Team management

Clinical judgement

Safeguarding

Education

NMC registered nurse or midwife

Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Degree or Masters in related subject

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Search here to find a new job, a new career, an opportunity to up skill or to simply change your career direction. Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient‑centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you’re at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

To help your onboarding go smoothly, it’s essential that internal applicants:

• Use their NHS.net email address in their TRAC profile
• Ensure your application is marked to show that you are a current CNWL staff memberApplications using personal email addresses (e.g. Gmail or Yahoo) will not be recognised, and the process simply won’t work. There is also a charge to change new starter personal email addresses to their nhs.net email address.

Before you apply:

• Log into TRAC and update your email to your NHS.net address
• Check your application details and make sure you are identified as an internal applicant
• This small step helps avoid major problems later.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run. Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Job overview

The Specialist Community Public Health Nurse School Nurse will work as part of the 0-19 team delivering a high quality, pro‑active service for children, young people and their families. The aim of the service is to achieve equity of health outcomes for the local population through the provision of evidence based and needs led service. The post holder will contribute to the identification and assessment of child and family health needs and the delivery of a universal core service, targeted interventions and public health interventions to children and their families within a defined locality.

Main duties of the job

• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all School Nurses (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses) to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their families and carers and also other staff members.

We expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work

As a specialist practitioner we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Leadership

• To act as a role model for nursing colleagues and the wider skill mix team.
• To participate in school nursing team activity through the duty system.
• To participate in skill mix staff appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members, in conjunction with the team leader.
• To help identify learning opportunities for team members
• To participate in the professional supervision of skill mix team members, ensuring standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed appropriately.
• To act as a role model and motivate team colleagues to deliver a responsive service

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse or midwife
• Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Degree or Masters in related subject
• Nurse prescribing

Previous Experience

• Experience of working with complex families
• Experience of multi-disciplinary integrated team working
• Ability to work flexibly and respond to changing demands and methods of working both individually and within a team
• Ability to work without direct supervision and proactive in seeking support with decision making when required.
• Knowledge of Infection Control legislation and maintenance of standards
• Knowledge of safeguarding children issuesKnowledge of risk management
• Knowledge of current issues and how they impact on professional practice

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to communicate with the multi‑disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word and excel for letter and report writing
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
• Supervise others in the team as delegated by the team leader
• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

• Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system
• Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
• If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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