SCPHN Student School Nurse - St Martin\'s Hospital

HCRG; Invergordon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000

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SCPHN Student School Nurse - St Martin's Hospital

Job Introduction: Are you a reflective, dedicated and dynamic Nurse or Midwife, and looking to train as a School Nurse, where you can make a real difference to children, families, and communities? We have student School Nursing vacancies with practice placements in Bath, where you will be based from St Martin's Hospital or Paulton Hospital. The training is a 1-year full-time course (50% practice and 50% theory) combining clinical learning and study in both practice placements and university. The course is at level 6/7 and is delivered by University of the West of England commencing January 2023. You'll be joining a team focused on providing clinical excellence to the local community and will be part of a fantastic, supportive team with hands-on Managers to help your growth in the organisation.

Fixed Term Full Time or Part time (considered)

Main Responsibility: Your main responsibilities will include:

1. 50% split between theory and practice work.
2. Work collaboratively with children, young people, families, and practice teacher to promote health and well-being and improve early detection and prevention of problems.
3. Work in partnership with the family and Practice teacher to begin to identify child protection concerns, understand independent professional judgements, and learn the process of assessments and referrals as appropriate in relation to Safeguarding Children.

The Ideal Candidate: At HCRG Care group, our approach to delivering health and social care services is innovative, refreshing and above all caring. We are committed to putting patient and service user care first and we are looking for dedicated professionals who share our values and our passion for delivering quality care. You will have:

1. Registration with NMC as a nurse or midwife.
2. Nursing or Midwifery degree qualifications.
3. A passion to improve the outcomes of local families.
4. The ability to travel across Wiltshire to meet both the educational and clinical requirements of the course.
5. A valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
6. Successful applicants must have a Nursing or Midwifery honours degree at 2:2 or above to access the PG Dip.

Please note that if candidates have already completed the SCPHN course you would not be eligible for this position.

Package Description: As a SCPHN Student School Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team within Bath and North East Somerset. You will feel valued as a SCPHN Student School Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

1. Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
2. Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
3. Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
4. Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
5. Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
6. Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
7. An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.

The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company: We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.