Job Introduction
Are you a determined, dynamic and thoughtful Family Nurse looking for an opportunity to join an organisation focused on professional growth and development?
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Band 7 Family Nurse to join our Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Team in Wiltshire.
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Is a national evidence-based programme. The programme aims to improve antenatal health, child health and development and parents’ economic self -sufficiency in disadvantaged young families.
This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme and healthy child programme to vulnerable hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby.
This is a demanding specialist role and post holders will undertake training to assist them develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme.
Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.
We highly value our colleagues and their well-being and offer weekly supervision sessions to our nursing team.
The base for this role is to be agreed across Wiltshire - the role could be based in Salisbury or Trowbridge and can be discussed at interview stage.

Main Responsibilities

• To recruit and engage eligible, hard to reach pregnant young women onto the FNP Programme.
• Participate in the delivery of the FNP programme and delivery of the healthy child programme.
• To use programme materials and methods in the clients ‘homes in order to achieve the following:
• Improve the outcomes of pregnancy.
• Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more confident care.
• Improve parental life course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,
• Complete their education and find work.
• To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and their families.
• Take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
• To participate in reflective supervision, monitoring client engagement. To ensure that expertise in clinical are developed and maintained and the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
• To ensure families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services.

THE COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THIS ROLE IS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW AND WILL BE SHARED AHEAD OF INTERVIEW FOR ANY SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS.

The Ideal Candidate

THE ESSENTIALS NEEDED FOR THIS ROLE:

• You must be a qualified Family Nurse.
• You must be a Registered Nurse active on the NMC register.
• You must have two years’ experience of working in the community with hard-to-reach families.
• You must hold a valid UK driver’s license.
• A willingness to learn, take on additional training and travel across localities
• An ability to work independently and as part of a team

Main Responsibilities

• To recruit and engage eligible, hard to reach pregnant young women onto the FNP Programme.
• Participate in the delivery of the FNP programme and delivery of the healthy child programme.
• To use programme materials and methods in the clients ‘homes in order to achieve the following:
• Improve the outcomes of pregnancy.
• Improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more confident care.
• Improve parental life course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,
• Complete their education and find work.
• To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and their families.
• Take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
• To participate in reflective supervision, monitoring client engagement. To ensure that expertise in clinical are developed and maintained and the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
• To ensure families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services