26 Oct
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Henley-on-Thames
Job description
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for dynamic and motivated Band 5 Public Health Staff Nurse's to work within the newly integrated 0-19 Children's and Young People Public Health Service based in Henley on Thames / Wallingford and surrounding areas.
The new service brings together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, delivering the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to provide an innovative and high-quality service that helps children, young people and families to thrive.
Health visitors, community public health nurses (previously known as community staff nurses) and community public health associates (previously known as community nursery nurses)
will now be working with children up to 8 years of age where there are known concerns or vulnerabilities and will provide health related episodes of care to support with areas such as behaviour, diet, and sleep.
There has also been an introduction of a new four-year health and development review to support school transition and address any school readiness concerns.
The role offers the opportunity to engage in workstreams within the service to support professional and leadership development.
The role has the opportunity to deliver community-based health promotion activities as well as supporting Oxfordshire's Young Parents Pathway alongside Specialist Practitioners.
Main duties of the job
Within the caseload, and as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse the post holder will contribute to the safe and effective delivery of the 0-19 service.
You will be based within the locality (neighbourhood)
and will work with the 0-19 teams in that locality and supporting county wide work where needed for children aged 0-8 years.
The role involves working in partnership with children, young people, families, primary care, schools and statutory and voluntary services and other partner agencies to facilitate health-enhancing activities and improve health outcomes.
You will deliver services to children and families within homes, and community settings.
Clinical activities will include assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating family focused care under the delegation of a SCPHN Health Visitor / School Health Nurse and working in partnership with other agencies.
The role includes undertaking Healthy Child Programme developmental and transitional assessments and planning,
delivering and evaluating public health initiatives through community-based health promotion activities.
The role will require the post holder to adhere to Safeguarding policies and actively engage under the supervision from a SCPHN in safeguarding processes, including Early help assessments and Team around the Family processes.
You will work with partnership with other agencies and develop, participate and maintain interagency networks.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive : Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team
Our values are : Caring, safe and excellent
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include :
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description for full details of the role, duties and responsibilities. There are a number of opportunities available and we will consider full time and part time posts.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Demonstrates an understanding of evidence-based practice
Desirable criteria
Community experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Level Registered Nurse or Midwife
- Practice assessor / Supervisor
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of leadership skills
- Excellent communicator with a high level of interpersonal and organisational skills
- An effective and proactive team player
- Competent knowledge and skills in IT packages e.g Microsoft word, excel
Desirable criteria
Motivates and inspires confidence and enthusiasm in self and team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering health promotion activities
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential.
All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site.
The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
▶️ Community Public Health Nurse - Henley on Thames
🖊️ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Henley-on-Thames