Community Staff Nurse- Health Visiting

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job description

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder of Community Staff Nurse in Health Visiting works as a member of the Health Visiting Service to deliver the Health Visitor Service Specification and Healthy Child Programme to residents of Harrow. Work is delegated to Community Staff Nurses by Health Visitors; the skills and knowledge of Community Staff Nurses enhance and complement the team and help in the early intervention and prevention work of the service and the support of families. Community Staff Nurses are required to work in partnership with families, health care professionals, and professionals from other agencies. The Community Staff Nurse will work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends, and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide.

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 in our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• To contribute to the delivery of the Health Visitor Service Specification and Healthy Child Programme.
• To support the Health Visiting Team and Service to provide a range of services across the borough, including public health, mental health, and parenting initiatives.
• To undertake group working within the Trust and in partnership with other organizations.
• To work in partnership with Health Visitors in the identification and safeguarding of vulnerable children by contributing to case conferences, core groups, team around family meetings, working to develop and deliver a plan of care in accordance with local and national guidelines.
• To work with partner agencies, liaising and delivering care as identified.
• To follow Trust policies and procedures with reference to issues such as confidentiality, record keeping, and health and safety.
• To plan and manage workload as designated by a Health Visitor and report any untoward findings to a Health Visitor as soon as possible.
• To support the service to deliver a five-day-a-week service to the families of Harrow.
• To participate in the induction and support of new staff members and students.
• To participate in clinical, safeguarding, and management supervision, appraisal, and personal development processes.
• To develop and build skills of team leadership and management and caseload management.

About us

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family, and carers, and also other staff members.

As a Community Staff Nurse, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognize that what you do and say can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

Job responsibilities

Patient Safety: Community Staff Nurse in Health Visiting contributes to the provision of safe and reliable services by:

• Using their clinical judgment and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible.
• Safeguarding people by recognizing and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognizing their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary.
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services.
• Being open and transparent about their own practice.

Supervising the work of others:

• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.

The NMC plays an important role in safeguarding the public by regulating the work of nurses. All nurses, including Community Staff Nurses in Health Visiting, are expected to register with the NMC each year; to revalidate when due, and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.

Clinical Outcomes: Community Staff Nurses contribute to the effectiveness of services by:

• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures.
• Working with clients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs.
• Acting as client advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of clients and providing clinically effective care.
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to clients but within their own limits of competency and confidence.
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by communicating well with all members of the team, understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its objectives, reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings, and identifying how care can be improved.

Patient Experience: Community Staff Nurses contribute to those using our services ensuring they feel respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:

• Working in partnership with clients and their families and carers.
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision-making.
• Signposting clients and carers to supportive services e.g. services provided by the local authority or the voluntary sector.
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable, and confident.
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust's policy.

Supporting yourself and others: Engaged staff are more productive and Community Staff Nurses play a role in engaging other staff members in the Trust and the work we do by:

• Providing supervision and annual appraisals to other staff which helps those staff reflect on their work, understand their objectives, and monitor their progress towards achieving them.
• Participating constructively in their own supervision and annual appraisal processes.
• Using continuing professional development funds to consolidate or improve clinical skills and to gain mentorship skills so they can support student nurses.

Service Specific Responsibilities: Further responsibilities attached to this particular Community Staff Nurse post are explained in the Service Specific Section attached to this Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration for nursing (Adult, Mental Health or Child Branch) Up to date and fit to practice safely.
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.
• Teaching or mentoring skills.

Previous Experience

• Previous experience of working either as a band 5 nurse or a student nurse.
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution.
• Experience of managing staff within a team.
• Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload.
• Previous experience of working in the community either as a band 5 nurse, a student nurse, or health care assistant.
• Experience of Safeguarding Children.
• Experience of health promotion.
• Experience of group facilitation.

Skills and Knowledge

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team, and use handover effectively.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies.
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary.
• Able to maintain electronic patient records.
• Use Microsoft Word for letters and report writing.
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable, and enthusiastic.
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with.
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind, and hard-working.
• Supervise others in the team.
• Mentor, teach, and support others in the team.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt to working within a changing environment.
• Ability to support children and families to make informed decisions in relation to their health and well-being.
• Medicines management and administration.
• Able to use data systems such as SystmOne.
• Caring for the people who use our services, their families, and carers, and other staff.
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated.
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves.
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals.

Other

• The ability to travel to a variety of sites within the Trust is essential.
• Access to a car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.
• Full UK Driving License.
• Able to work efficiently in the community.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£34,521 to £41,956 a year per annum Including HCAS