Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 School Staff Nurse working as part of the Wiltshire wide School Nursing Team.
You will be a Registered Nurse with an interest in providing services to Children, Young People and their families within the community setting. You’ll join an experienced team who are focused on clinical excellence.
We are very excited to be delivering our School Nursing Public Health Service to provide the Healthy Child Programme using a holistic approach in order to ensure a comprehensive Public Health Service to the school aged population and their families.
The service embraces electronic record keeping, mobile working and a Single Point of Access (SPA) for all services delivered to the 0-19 population, providing one record for one child.
Working within the Greenways Chippenham Team, you will be part a team of other Staff Nurses and School Health Support Workers, led by Specialist Community Public Health School Nurses, working closely with other SCPHN’s, Schools, and all other community services supporting the 0-19 population, such as Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, Speech and Language Therapists, and Community Paediatricians.
This is a term time only position working 22.5 hours per week during term time.

Main Responsibilities

• Understanding the concept of Clinical Governance and be skilled in the identification, assessment and protection of vulnerable children and families
• To support the school nurse community service as part of the skill mixed public health team. To contribute to the development of the School nursing service in the defined locality through liaison with and support from the Specialist School Nurse and innovative practice to meet health needs.
• Ensuring a child centered service is delivered through active engagement with young people in the planning and delivery of the service in the locality area.
• Working across organizational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with the organisation’s policies and priorities To lead on delegated work from the Specialist School Nurse, utilizing Nursing skills of leadership, prioritization and assessment.
• To collaborate with key partners to address public health needs as an advocate for children/young people, families/carers and the school health service.
• To be responsible for the assessment of children’s health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children and young people and the Early Support assessment.
• To promote healthy lifestyles through opportunistic discussions and health education in line with the School Health Needs Assessment.
• To support allocated caseload of vulnerable children and adolescents through proactive discussions with families, schools, other agencies, attendance at Child Protection Conferences and one to one discussions, under the support and supervision of the specialist school nurse to help plan and prioritize support and interventions.

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The Ideal Candidate

Main Responsibilities

• Understanding the concept of Clinical Governance and be skilled in the identification, assessment and protection of vulnerable children and families
• To support the school nurse community service as part of the skill mixed public health team. To contribute to the development of the School nursing service in the defined locality through liaison with and support from the Specialist School Nurse and innovative practice to meet health needs.
• Ensuring a child centered service is delivered through active engagement with young people in the planning and delivery of the service in the locality area.
• Working across organizational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with the organisation’s policies and priorities To lead on delegated work from the Specialist School Nurse, utilizing Nursing skills of leadership, prioritization and assessment.
• To collaborate with key partners to address public health needs as an advocate for children/young people, families/carers and the school health service.
• To be responsible for the assessment of children’s health needs to identify any deviation from normal development in line with Safeguarding Children and young people and the Early Support assessment.
• To promote healthy lifestyles through opportunistic discussions and health education in line with the School Health Needs Assessment.
• To support allocated caseload of vulnerable children and adolescents through proactive discussions with families, schools, other agencies, attendance at Child Protection Conferences and one to one discussions, under the support and supervision of the specialist school nurse to help plan and prioritize support and interventions