SCPHN Apprenticeship - Health Visiting

at  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified nurse to train as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Practitioner Health Visitor in Stockport. Our Start well Health Visiting team are a dynamic, friendly and supportive team with the Health and Wellbeing of families, babies and children at its core. We aim through our Start well strategy and Family Hubs programme to deliver the best opportunity for early years development and wellbeing for all under 5s across Stockport including our children with additional needs.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit 4 qualified nurses to undertake the new Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Apprenticeship in Health Visiting on a full time basis. (See Terms and Conditions)

APPRENTICES WILL:

Work alongside the Practice supervisor and Practice Assessor to develop enhanced skills in Specialist Public Health Community Nursing.
Complete SCPHN Apprentice course at level 7 . Meeting the required Apprenticeship Standards, University Academic Standards and the NMC Standards for qualification.
The apprenticeship programme combines and integrates both academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and education providers.
50% will be on placement and you will be allocated a Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor to guide and assess your development. 50% will be University time which will include study days and regular academic assessments
The Health Visiting/Start well Service in Stockport works in Community Family Hubs with caseloads across the borough utilising an integrated locality model. The named Health Visitor model works alongside the Family Hubs strategy within Stockport Family in well established skill mix teams consisting of Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visitors) Staff Nurses, Early Years Workers and Health Visiting Locality Assistants who together deliver the Healthy Child Programme 0-5 along with colleagues from Stockport Family and the wider health care services in primary and secondary care, voluntary/3 rd sector agencies. The service is working with colleagues to develop multiagency pathways to ensure delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and support closer service integration.
During the Apprenticeship you be delivering evidence based interventions as per the Healthy Child Programme 0-5. You will be expected to work on your own initiative as well as under direct supervision of your Practice Assessor and Supervisor.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Please refer the Job description for details