Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Children in Care

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Are you looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service delivered within an award-winning council focused on placing local people at the heart of everything we do, listening to and doing good for our communities?

Here at Barnsley Council, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. We’re proud to deliver the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service, which is at the forefront of care provision for the children and young people of Barnsley. We recognise that our greatest asset is our employees, which is why for all successful nursing candidates we will recognise your NHS continuous service for the purposes of annual leave and sickness absence, and you can continue to access the NHS Pension Scheme if you are an existing scheme member.

To ensure continued provision of Public Health Nursing services within Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council we are seeking to recruit a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Children in Care) who is passionate about wanting to lead and support the provision of high-quality services.

About the role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled School Nurse or Health Visitor to join our Public Health Nursing Service, Children in Care team, in Barnsley. In this role, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme, providing evidence-based care that promotes health, reduces inequalities, and safeguards children, young people, and families.

The Children in Care SCPHN will work as an integral part of a multi-agency service to provide a seamless pathway for Children in Care and Care Leavers. The primary focus of this role will be to undertake statutory health assessments, develop and undertake age-appropriate health promotion advice, attendance at statutory reviews, and the delivery of the healthy child programme with children and young people in care to improve their life chances and health outcomes. The post holder will work with children in care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, children with complex health needs, care leavers and their parents and/or carers. Following national and local guidelines, plan, organise, deliver, and evaluate comprehensive health assessments to assess and formulate the complex needs of a looked after child or young person using evidence-based knowledge to develop health plans towards improving the long-term health outcomes for looked after children and will act as a resource providing health advice to children, carers, and professionals.

You will need

To succeed in this role, you will need to be an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse or Health Visitor, with experience working 0-19, with sound knowledge and understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and related policies and pathways. You will need to be able to identify risk, assess, plan, and deliver care, providing evidenced based interventions to support children, young people, and care leavers within Barnsley. Be a highly motivated, innovative, and adaptable practitioner who is committed to taking a child centred approach with the ability to identify health needs as early as possibility and improve health and wellbeing by promoting health, preventing ill health, and reducing inequalities. You will need to be able to plan and prioritise your own workload, and the ability to travel to a range of venues and settings is essential. We are seeking an experienced nurse who can contribute to ongoing service improvement initiatives demonstrating a commitment that the “voice” and lived experience of the child and young person is at the heart of all decision making and clinical care planning. Experience of safeguarding and multi-agency working is also key to the role. The team also take responsibility for children placed out of borough. This includes liaison with other agencies and services, coordinating effective care and acting as an advocate where necessary. If you are not dual trained, there is a willingness to complete the extended practice.

Shape a better future with us

Our 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service is rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, as part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. We offer a full induction programme and excellent training packages to enable you to have the right skills to do your job, including regular supervision to help you recognise your continued professional development needs and support you to achieve your potential.

A lot to look forward to

As part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. We offer working conditions that are flexible and agile that support good life work balance. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. Let’s make a better Barnsley for everyone.

For further details please contact Gemma Conway Named Nurse for Safeguarding and Children in Care, email gemmaconway@barnsley.gov.uk telephone 07720031333