Nursery jobs in United Kingdom

Main area Sefton Health Visitors - Community Division Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Between Monday - Friday usually 9am-5pm but with occasional work outside of this) Job ref 350-CC7646576

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Sefton Town Southport Salary £27,485 - £30,162 pro rata/per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/01/2026 23:59

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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The Children’s service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed need.

The Children’s service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed need.

The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, immunisations, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme (Department of Health, 2008).

The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.

The Community Nursery Nurse (CNN) is an integral member of the Children’s team.

The post holder will support the Health Visitor in their work with children and families, with the overall aim of helping each identified child to achieve its full potential.

The work of the CNN will be part of a planned programme of care within the Healthy Child programme (0 – 19) delegated by the Health Visitor, who has completed the initial assessment.

All activities undertaken by the Nursery Nurse will be at the discretion/delegation of the Health Visitor/School Health, after appropriate in-service training has been given, and level of competency demonstrated.

The post holder will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

CLINICAL

The post holder will be responsible and accountable to the Team Manager and other Health Visitors who will delegate work.

Contribute to a family health needs assessment planning interventions and reviewing in agreement with the Health Visitor.

Assist and carry out developmental health reviews in line with the Healthy Child Programme where appropriate. Give routine advice and information in respect to child care, development, infant feeding, breast feeding, weaning, behaviour management, play, hygiene, dental care, accident prevention, attachment, parenting skills and local community facilities.

Provide care in a variety of settings including clients’ home, Children Centres, GP surgery, health centre or other local community centre.

Participate in Public Health work / community development activities in line with the Public Health Agenda eg. Posters, Health and Safety days.

Work collaboratively as a team member to achieve team objectives in the promotion of health and wellbeing of children aged 0-19 years and their families.

Work within local and national child safeguarding procedures and have an occasional requirement to attend conference/core groups with the Health Visitor.

MANAGERIAL

The post holder is responsible for managing own allocation workload supervised by and accountable to Team Manager and/or Health Visitor/School Health.

Be responsible for organising their own work assessing and planning whilst considering priorities including home visits and parenting groups.

Implement and evaluate individual programmes of care as agreed with Health Visitors.

Be responsible for updating and informing the Health Visitors on the progress care or any significant/relevant changes related to children and families.

The post holder will work within recognised departmental policies and procedures.

EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Continually maintain and improve professional knowledge and competence through reflective practice, formal/informal education and the application of evidence based practice.

Undertake educational courses, mandatory training and training as identified by appraisal and Children and Families service objectives.

Regularly update skills and knowledge to maintain fitness for practice

Deliver group health promotion sessions in a variety of settings, e.g. parenting groups, mother and toddlers in agreement with the Health Visitor.

RESEARCH AND AUDIT

Work within and implement Clinical governance guidelines, policies, protocols and procedures.

Actively contribute to the appraisal process, identifying professional objectives and personal development plans.

Engage in clinical supervision & management supervision as per organisation policy.

Identify and report any accidents / incidents in appropriate documentation in accordance with organisational policy and take remedial action as appropriate.

Manage complaints from clients and colleagues as per organisation policy. Reporting to the team manager as appropriate.

Manage risk, health and safety and work within policies and procedures laid down by the organisation.

Lone-worker for majority of client interactions and as such will be expected to work within agreed Lone-worker Policy / Guidelines.

Participate in audits and practice development projects within the team and Trust wide.

Work collaboratively with IT and Informatics initiatives to utilise appropriate information systems as they are developed.

Contribute to the collection and maintenance of evidence for Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcomes.

COMMUNICATION

Proactively establish good communication networks with clients, families, carers, members of statutory and voluntary agencies and colleagues.

Liaise with professionals ensuring appropriate channels of communication are developed and maintained.

Communicate childcare and child centred information with empathy and reassurance to assist parents in improving language and disability barriers with their children.

Communicate appropriately with parents making appointments for contacts and invitations to groups.

To record client information contemporaneously on relevant documentation in a clear and concise manner assisting in the provision of verbal and written reports where necessary.

Occasionally work in environments that contain emotive and distressing situations e.g. aggressive clients, families where children have recently diagnosed disabilities.

Occasionally be subject to difficult and distressing family situations in particular where there is exposure to child protection, family breakdown, mental health, behavioural problems with babies and young children.

• NNEB or Diploma in Childcare and Education (DCE) or Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years or NVQ Level 3 Early Years and Education

• Experience of working with children and families
• Previous Community Experience
• Evidence of demonstrable post-qualifying experience
• Evidence of experience in Child Development Screening

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

• Ability to deal with families with complex health, social and environmental needs.
• Ability to work in patients’ homes and a variety of community settings.
• Ability to work in environments that contain emotive and distressing situations.
• Excellent Communication Skills- spoken, written and IT
• Ability to travel in the course of performing duties.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [emailprotected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [emailprotected] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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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.

Judith Carr HV Team Manager Tel:0151 247 6354