About this role
Job summary
Are you a passionate Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in your community? North Kesteven (Sleaford) and Lincoln South Health Visiting Teams are looking for dedicated professionals to join them in the following 2 roles:
North Kesteven: 1 full time 37hr post
Lincoln South: 22.5hr post
Be part of a supportive, forward-thinking teams are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of families across the North Kesteven and Lincoln South areas. If you're ready to bring your skills, compassion, and energy to a role where every day counts wed love to hear from you!
About the Role
We deliver a family centred service, which enables individuals, families, and communities to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, educational, and emotional wellbeing through a public health approach. We are excited to be involved in the Family Hub model which will continue to build on our partnership working with other agencies including Early Years teams, Early Help, Housing and Social Care. We work within a variety of settings such as clinics, nurseries and family homes, no two days are the same. This role offers a genuine opportunity to make a positive impact on families. We provide a comprehensive induction/training package. Continuous NHS Service is recognised and your NMC annual fees are paid by Lincolnshire County Council.
Main duties of the job
About You
You must be a Registered Childrens Nurse (or other registered nursing domain with childrens experience) and have a current registration with NMC.
What are we looking for?
A good understanding of children's safeguarding
An individual who can be proactive and work autonomously as well as part of a team
Excellent organisational and communication skills, both verbal and written
. A good understanding of clinical governance and the CQC (Care Quality Commission) standards for community practice.
To be able to work in a changing environment and have the skills to support others in that situation.
To be committed to working collaboratively and in partnership with Early Help and Social Care colleagues to improve outcomes of children and young people.
Above all else you need to have a positive "can do" attitude and be passionate about making a difference for the children and young people of Lincolnshire
Further candidate essential and desirable criteria can be found on the Job Description, which is attached to the advert on the LCC Jobs page. We are offering a competitive salary of £35,412-£39,152 (pro rata), generous annual leave with the opportunity to buy more. Exciting learning and development opportunities.
About us
Lincolnshire County Council, is one of the largest employers in the county. We are an organisation that embraces diversity, innovation and progress. We value our people and want to ensure that we can support you in joining and growing with us.
We will view you as an integral member of our community and recognise that your well-being is paramount. To show our appreciation, weve crafted a competitive package designed to not only acknowledge your hard work but also foster a healthy work-life balance.
From health benefits and retirement plans, we strive to provide a package that supports well-being and financial stability and that meets the diverse needs of our workforce.
We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire.
People often say every day is a learning day and at LCC a culture of learning is something we really believe in. We recognise the importance of supporting your learning and development and can offer a variety of different learning opportunities depending on what is right for you and the organisation. This could be through your everyday tasks, through hands-on experience, structured programs, formal qualifications, coaching, or informal learning opportunities.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Purpose:
The Children's Health Service 0-19, alongside others, will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) across Lincolnshire for children, young people, and their families (aged 0 19 years) and up to the age of 25 years for young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND).
The Children's Health service uses evidence-based practice to plan, deliver and evaluate Health Visiting and Children and Young People's Nursing, and other relevant interventions in a variety of settings to deliver a family centred service, which enables individuals, families, and communities to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, educational, and emotional wellbeing through a public health approach.
The post holder will accept delegated responsibility for the delivery of health promotion activity and programmes commensurate with the experience, competencies and knowledge required by the role. Working under the supervision of a registered Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse the post holder will use evidence-based practice to deliver health promotion activity in a variety of settings using a family centred, public health approach that enables individual families and communities to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, educational, and emotional wellbeing.
The post holder will always work within the NMC's Code of Professional conduct.
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Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse, effectively manage a defined caseload as allocated nurse ensuring early intervention and reducing health inequalities. Delivering care programmes/packages that promote a child or young person's health, safety and development and that support a child or young person's individual health needs that are outside of the responsibility of specialist health care services. This will include delivery of certain aspects of the Healthy Child Programme such as Antenatal groups and health promotion and core contacts but only where training and competencies are completed.
2
Work with the childrens health service developing and maintaining appropriate relationships with individuals, families, service users, stakeholders, and support an integrated provision of services to children, young people, and their families as part of the Council's Early Help approach
3
Where relevant, liaise with other members of the 0-19 (25, SEND) children's services workforce e.g., early help, social care and outside agencies to identify/agree how the needs of the child or young person are best met and when/where additional support is required.
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Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse, deliver specific health interventions/care programmes based on individual health needs assessments to children and young people on a child protection plan, child in need, TAC and ESCO relevant to the child's individual needs and act in accordance with safeguarding policy and procedures. Attending child protection conferences, core groups, child in need meetings as allocated, with support and guidance from the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse.
5
Utilise specialist clinical skills using evidence-based practice to identify any risks and needs in protecting children and adhere to agreed safeguarding policies and procedures of Childrens Services Directorate and Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership / Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership .
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Under the supervision of the Health Visitor or Senior Childrens and Young Peoples Nurse act as lead professional where relevant and the child or young person is in receipt of a children and young people's health intervention/care programme.
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Provide mentorship and community experience for pre-registration students. The role will also provide 1-1 support, guidance and supervision for Family Health Workers where required. This will also include the provision of appraisals for Family Health Workers.
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Support managers within Children's Services in the delivery of operational objectives, plans and targets and to review and monitor these to improve team / directorate policy by operating effectively as a member of the Children's Services Directorate.
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Participate in the development of quality intervention and excellent standards through quality audits.
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Act as a role model to others helping them to manage uncertainty and to respond positively and creatively to change.
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Work flexibly as required across the core hours of the service 8-8pm including weekends
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The post holder will maintain their own expert level of clinical competence and maintain a professional profile and Nursing and Midwifery Council revalidation
requirements. The post holder will receive clinical supervision and safeguarding supervision to support their own practice.
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As an employee, create a positive image of the County Council to support an integrated provision of services to children, young people and their families as part of the Council's Early Help approach and deliver excellent customer service, incorporating the Councils equality and diversity objectives and supporting the council to achieve best practice in all it delivers.
14 Maintain and record accurate contemporaneous documentation regarding interactions between service users, colleagues and other agencies in the appropriate legal records and formats.
15 Always utilise and apply appropriate communication skills with service users. Where English is not the first language or understanding is limited or required in different mode to seek advice regarding methods of communication to support the individual e.g. translator services or resources for the visually or hearing impaired.
16 Work according to their qualifications and experience with an expectation that they undertake training and development opportunities to enhance their skills as a public health practitioner.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Childrens Nurse (or other registered nursing domain with childrens experience). Current registration with NMC Post registration experience in Childrens Health / pediatrics. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development Experience and knowledge of current safeguarding children policy and process. Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Lincolnshire County Council
Address 3rd Floor, Lancaster House
36 Orchard Street
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN1 1XX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/home.html (Opens in a new tab)