School Nurse Locality Lead

School Nurse Locality Lead

Job description

Job summary

Are you passionate about supportingchildren and families to achieve optimal health and wellbeing, fulfilling theirpotential and addressing health inequalities?

If this sounds like you, we have anexciting opportunity to work within our dynamic Your Healthcare, School Healthservice.

The service delivers a range of activities into Royal Borough ofKingston schools and community settings, maintaining a strong focus on PublicHealth, promoting and safeguarding childrens health and wellbeing.

As a locality lead you will lead askill mix team of staff from a variety of health backgrounds to deliver inclusive,evidenced-based and outcome focused activities into schools and communitysettings.







You willhave completed the SCPHN programme or have significant experience in a schoolhealth team or equivalent community setting and be able to demonstrate theclinical skills and knowledge that align with the SCPHN programme.

We welcome applications from experiencedcandidates as well as those who can demonstrate the skills and ability todevelop into the role, including newly qualified SCPHNs.

Staff are encouraged and supported toaccess opportunities for training and development to enhance and develop theirpractice in line with the commissioned service.

In this years staff survey 92%of School Health staff reported that they have access to the learning anddevelopment they need to do their job well.

Main duties of the job

To leada locality team of skill mixed staff to deliver evidence based activities andinterventions to promote health and wellbeing of school aged children and youngpeople attending state-maintained schools or home educated within the boroughof Kingston Upon Thames.







Assessmentof health needs and implementation of planned programs of care for safeguardedchildren and the delegation of this work, where appropriate, to appropriatelyskilled and trained members of the team.

Thepost holder will be working as part of a wider School Health team and 0 to19service with opportunities to influence practice and development of the widerservice offer.

About us

Your Healthcare is a Community Interest Companydelivering NHS services. A policy of distributed leadership enables staff tohave the freedom to be creative in the development of the service.

This isdemonstrated by the innovative service offer which includes activities nottypical of other School Health services.







The recent staff survey demonstratedexcellent engagement and indicated that 100% of respondents enjoy working inthe School Health team and reported positive wellbeing at work.

NHSAgenda for Change Terms and Conditions and Pension scheme apply.

Thereis scope to discuss preferred hours up to full time, and flexible working tomeet the needs of the right candidate as well as the service requirements.

A full UK driving license with access to a vehicle oraccess to a bicycle with storage facilities that could transport bulkyequipment, is essential (car / bike loan scheme available) and a full DBS checkwill be required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Service Delivery

To promote optimal health outcomesfor children, young people and their families by :

Maintaining knowledge of the health needs of children,





youngpeople and their families and apply this to practice.

Continuously developing expertise in safeguardingchildren and adults, ensuring the use of these skills in practice, adhering toYour Healthcare policies, alerting senior staff and the named nurse for child oradult protection and other team members when exceptional risks are identified.

To be accountable as a professional foractions in relation to own and work delegated to others, acting within the NMCcode of professional conduct.

To be aware of the multiple needs ofchildren, young people, and their families, acquiring knowledge of servicesavailable to fulfil these needs and ensuring proactive referral to otheragencies where appropriate.

To assess children,





young people and adults holistically andprovide care based on an awareness of the wider determinants of health.

To promote optimum health outcomes forchildren, young people and adults by effective liaison with colleagues bothinternal and external to Your Healthcare.

Participating in and developing health promoting activities forchildren, young people and their families in a variety of community settings.

Activities include but are notlimited to Relationship, Sex and Health Education (RSHE), group work, schoolstaff training, parent advice clinic, pupil drop-ins, health assessments andone to one intervention.

To contribute to service developments acrossthe School Health Service and implement in the designated locality.

Participating in use of digital technologies to support servicedelivery.

To participate,





as requested by the School HealthLead, in Clinical Governance activities such as clinical audit and research.

To comply with current evidence-based guidelines, Your Healthcareand relevant policies and procedures and to support other locality team membersto do the same.

To act as a mentor to school health staff and participate in performancereviews and appraisals in accordance with Your Healthcares policy andprocedures.

Communications and Working Relationships

To provide support, leadership and supervisionof members of a skill mixed locality team.

To allocate work to the most appropriate members of staff.

To maintain up to date accurate records,ensuring confidentiality is maintained in accordance with Your Healthcare,





NMCrequirements and the Data Protection laws.

To participate fully in the use of information technology,collecting and entering statistical data relevant to service area.

To organise and participate in team, organisationaland partnership meetings as required.

To participate in and contribute to thedevelopment of the School Health Service as part of the 0 to19 service.

To take on role of practiceassessor supervisor of pre registration students and provide mentorship to newmembers of staff.

To maintain professional competence and personal development byparticipation in mandatory and essential training, which are reflected in thepersonal development plan.

Decision Making







To be able to prioritise own caseload and thework priorities of the locality team in a way that promotes peoples equality,diversity and rights.

To ensure the efficient and effective use ofall resources to meet the needs of service users and their families.

Working without direct supervision to plan,deliver and evaluate interventions, applying knowledge of evidence, guidanceand policy.

Participate fully in regular clinical andsafeguarding supervision activities.

To be able to recognise when ad hoc supportand supervision is required.

To contribute to multi agency decision makingfor safeguarded children.

To apply an understanding of inequalities inhealth and vulnerable populations to working practice.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

Highly self-motivated and passionate about improving health and wellbeing

Skills and Ability

Essential

- Work under pressure and manage competing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal skills - influencing, negotiating and communication with team members, service users and partner organisations
- Critical thinking and decision making skills
- Understanding and negotiating barriers to communication
- Teaching and mentorship to support development of staff and students
- Able to work autonomously, without direct supervision
- Able to demonstrate and promote teamwork
- Adaptable to change
- IT skills including excel, word and PowerPoint and an ability to learn new digital skills

Desirable

- Work under pressure and manage competing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, influencing, negotiating and communication with team members, service users and partner organisations
- Critical thinking and decision making skills
- Understanding and negotiating barriers to communication
- Teaching and mentorship to support development of staff and students
- Able to work autonomously, without direct supervision
- Able to demonstrate and promote teamwork
- Adaptable to change
- IT skills including excel, word and PowerPoint and an ability to learn new digital skills
- Skills in using Microsoft 365 applications including Teams, Forms, OneDrive, SharePoint and Sway

Experience

Essential

- Working with safeguarded children
- Working with sexually active young people
- Working with children and families with complex needs
- Delivery of interventions with an outcome focus to improve health and wellbeing
- Leading a team
- Facilitating groups
- Mentoring staff and students

Desirable

Leading on health improving activities and projects

Knowledge

Essential

- Factors affecting the health and well-being of children and young people
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Working knowledge of public health policy, guidelines and evidence base that informs practice in School Nursing

Desirable

- The research process
- Sexual health and contraception

Qualifications

Essential

- Registered Nurse with Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse Qualification (candidates with extensive experience in School Nursing Practice who dont hold the SCPHN qualification will be considered).
- Minimum of 2 years experience in School Health and Health Visiting, or equivalent community role
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Practice assessor

Desirable

Contraception and Sexual Health qualification

Additional Factors

Essential

- A full DBS disclosure will be required
- Full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes or access to a bike, with facility to be able to transport bulky items such as measuring equipment

▶️ School Nurse Locality Lead
🖊️ Your Healthcare
📍 Surbiton