Staff Nurse

West Sussex Healthy Child Programme (5-19) have a vacancy for a band 5 School Staff Nurse to work across the West Sussex area. Full time and part time hours will be considered.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse to work in our friendly service. We are committed to providing a high quality, accessible health service to children, young people and families, in partnership with other agencies and service providers.

You will need excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to use different communication methods. You will work as part of the team but will also need to use your time management skills to deliver care to your own caseload. Confident IT skills are also important for the role. In return, the post offers a friendly and supportive team with excellent learning and development opportunities and a stimulating working environment.

Main duties of the job

As a school staff nurse, you will be managing a caseload of primary schools providing agreed elements of the Healthy Child Programme. You will deliver interventions to support children and families with specific health concerns as well as making referrals to other services. You will also support children and families with additional vulnerabilities such as with safeguarding concerns.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values

Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence-guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

a) Work with the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) team to provide a child centred, inclusive, holistic and accessible public health programme to children, their families and communities.

b) Establish effective links with children, families, communities, statutory and voluntary agencies.

c) Promote the physical and emotional wellbeing of children and young people, in order to establish good health for them now and in the future through early intervention, health promotion, advocacy, empowerment, social inclusion and the reduction of health inequalities.

d) Make referrals as appropriate enabling access to relevant professionals supporting children and young people to reach their health and developmental potential.

For more information please see job description and person specification.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Active registration as a qualified Nurse on part 1 of the NMC register, or an NMC registered midwife
• To hold or be willing to obtain Safeguarding Children Level 6 module
• Evidence of academic study

Skills and Knowledge

• Good literacy and numeracy skills.
• Proficient IT Skills with the ability to learn and use new digital systems and ways of working
• Ability to draw information from a range of sources in order to make a contribution to service development.
• Ability to reflect and learn from situations.
• Ability to apply research to practice.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and development.
• Knowledge of Clinical governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision and Professional codes of conduct
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Children Procedures.

Other Requirements

• Car driver with current driving licence and access to car for work, unless under the Equality Act

Experience

• Experience working with children
• Experience of working within a community setting.
• Experience of teaching and presenting.

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

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