Band 5 Health Inclusion Nurse

You will feel valued as a Health Inclusion Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 salary in line with Agenda for Change
• NHS Pension with full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Plentiful local parking at base locations
• Membership of My Reward Hub - discounts, cashback, and voucher offers
• Access to wages as you earn them to support financial wellbeing
• Comprehensive wellbeing support (mental, physical, financial and legal)
• Access to eLearning, career pathways and CPD through our 'Outstanding' Learning Enterprise
• A supportive, open and innovative culture with opportunities to influence service development
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new and innovative way of supporting children, young people and families. As a Health Inclusion Nurse, you'll work within an integrated Families First team, helping to improve health outcomes for those facing disadvantage, vulnerability, poor health outcomes or barriers to accessing services. You'll provide holistic health assessments, targeted interventions and practical support to families, taking a trauma-informed and relationship-based approach. Working closely with Family Help Practitioners, Social Workers, education professionals and a range of partner agencies, you'll play a key role in reducing health inequalities and improving access to healthcare services. This is a fixed-term opportunity within a test-and-learn model, giving you the chance to contribute ideas, shape ways of working and help develop a service designed to make a meaningful difference to local families.Main Responsibilities You'll manage a defined caseload of children, young people and families with identified or emerging health needs. Using evidence-based assessment tools, you'll identify physical, emotional and developmental needs and deliver targeted interventions that improve health and wellbeing outcomes. You'll also support delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and wider public health priorities. Working across community settings, you'll undertake home visits, attend joint visits with Family Help practitioners and support families to access the services they need. This will include signposting and referring to primary care, dentistry, ophthalmology, mental health, community and voluntary sector services, while promoting engagement and reducing barriers to access. As an embedded member of the Family Help Team, you'll contribute to multi-agency meetings, safeguarding activity, care planning and reviews. You'll maintain accurate records, participate in quality improvement initiatives and work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure families receive coordinated, compassionate and effective support


• Registered Nurse (Adult, Child, Learning Disability or Mental Health)
• Current NMC registration
• Experience working with children and families
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of community-based practice
• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding practice
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Desirable
• Knowledge of child development
• Experience of safeguarding children
• Understanding of health inequalities
• Knowledge of public health principles
• Family-centred practice experience
• Partnership working experience
• Previous knowledge of the Families First approach
Please note that this role will require travel and the ability to work across a range of local authority locality bases and health team locations throughout Warwickshire.

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. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. 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.