Community Nursery Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Do you want to work as a Community Nursery Nurse in one of the most vibrant, diverse and rewarding areas in North-West London? Joining Central and North-West London NHS Foundation Trust in Harrow can offer you the opportunities and experiences you are looking for. At CNWL we are fully committed to improving the health of all families living in Harrow and helping to ensure that all children fulfil their potential.
Community Nursery Nurses work as a member of the Harrow 0-19 Service in the delivery of health education/health promotion whilst supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to families in the borough of Harrow. They work closely with children and families who use our services and play an important contribution in our team as well as how people experience our services.
Working in a skill mixed team, Community Nursery Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
Working in conjunction with Health Visitors and School Nurses to formulate care plans for a programme of intervention to be carried out either at home or clinic settings.
Providing feedback to the Health Visitor and School Nurse when concerns have been identified during contacts with families.
Participating in the Healthy Child programme under direction of the Health Visitor or School Nurse.
Supporting in the running of clinics, facilitating developmental reviews and growth monitoring as required.
Independently carry out developmental reviews in the clinic or home setting: assessing cognitive and language development, hearing, vision fine and gross motor skills, emotional and social development.
Providing appropriate health promotion, parenting advice and childcare advice to parents and carers when necessary.
Referring to other agencies such as Speech and Language Therapists, Early support, Audiologist and other child development specialists.
Your experience as a new starter in CNWL is extremely important to us and you can find out how your journey from your first day to the end of your first year will be supported by clicking onto “New Starter Roadmap” which is attached with the job description. Across our organisation we have a thriving set of active staff networks to promote inclusion and communication with our diverse workforce (BAME, LGBTQ+, 50+, Disabled Employees, Women’s, Carers and Lived Experience of Mental Health) and staff will have access to a range of personal, financial and wellbeing benefits.
As well as talking to one of our managers we would be delighted to put you in touch with a recently recruited member of staff in one of our services who can answer any questions that you might have about their experience as a new starter and of the culture in our services.
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.
Community Nursery Nurses are expected to be competent and confident and will have previous experience of working with children before coming into post. They contribute to the effectiveness of services by:
Supporting the planning, organisation and delivery of defined aspects of the healthy child programme, including health reviews, parenting support and home visiting.
Working with children and families in the assessment of their health and well-being and making referrals as appropriate under the supervision of the health visiting and school nursing teams.
Developing and contributing to parenting support groups.
Support the teams in planning programmes of care to promote positive outcomes for children and families, including those requiring a higher level of health promotion or preventative intervention.
Communicating effectively with other members of the team regarding the management of individual clients and issues relating to service delivery.
Working with health visitors and school nursing in regard to safeguarding children and families
Referring to other teams or services as appropriate.
Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by:
communicating well with all members of the team
understanding their role, responsibilities in the team, and how they help the team achieve its’ objectives
Reflecting on their own practice regularly
identifying how care could be improved

Please refer the Job description for details