Registered Nurse (Schools) Fixed term - Peripatetic

at  Aneurin Bevan University Health Board

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to join our School Nursing Team. The post will cover the Newport and the South Monmouth teams on a peripatetic basis.
This post is a fixed term post, 30 hours per week until 29th March 2025 to cover the needs of the service.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join our forward thinking and dynamic School Nursing Team.
Our School Nursing service have an ethos of ‘compassion and innovation’ with staff well-being, collaborative working, and positive outcomes for children and young people at the heart of our services.
This role is to support the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) to meet, ‘A School Nursing Framework for Wales’ and to ensure the delivery of, Healthy Child (Wales) Programme, including the Child Measurement Programme, Vision Screening Programme and school age immunisations schedules within the allocated borough and Gwent wide as required.
You will need to have well developed communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and independently. Partnership working, both with parents and other agencies is highlighted as key to providing high quality services to children
Experience of working with children, or within immunisations / community experience is desirable. It is an advantage if the successful candidate has gained experience within a similar role, however, full training will be given. The successful candidates must be flexible to the needs of the service and able to meet the geographical needs of the role.
The ability to speak welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh applicants are equally welcome to apply for this post.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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