Barnet Community Staff Nurse (Pathway to SCPHN HV)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation and an expanding team. Come and join us on our journey as we develop our staff and enhance our offer to families. Barnet is a large, richly diverse and dynamic borough and as a member of the 0-19 Service, you will be part of a team that is integrated, friendly and supportive. We deliver a local needs-led service ensuring that children and their families are at the heart of what we do.There are opportunities to work differently with many partners on different sites. We have some great networks supporting inclusivity and well-being, all in a great borough which is easy to navigate, central and reached via lots of different routes. We will provide a robust and innovative training package, looking to develop and expand on your skillset. Our learning and development department offers stimulating opportunities for continued professional development. We offer flexible working opportunities and technological support. Staff wellbeing is a high priority for Whittington Health and as part of the organisation you can access a range of support and resources., We are looking for staff nurses who want an exciting challenge and are seeking to develop new skills. This is a development role fixed over 1 year with the possibility to expand, with CPD module linked to the University of Hertfordshire that offers progression to the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse training (Health Visiting). We want you to be passionate about Public Health, early intervention and prevention and to want to be part of an integrated service which strives for excellence, loves creativity and supports working together., Main duties of the job

• To support health visitors in delivering the Healthy Child Programme and Whittington Health Trust (Barnet) Health Visiting service specification.
• To work across the 0-19 service, based within the Health Visiting teams, to improve health and life outcomes for children and families within a defined community through delivering packages of care/support following assessment by the Health Visitor/Team Leader.
• To participate in the development of intervention pathways, services and health improvement activities.
• To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including Children Centres and Early Years to identify and address health needs
  
  The post holder is a qualified registered nurse ideally with experience in working in paediatrics in an acute/community setting
• Experience working in the community and/or with children and families, Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
• High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs.
• Ability to apply research to practice.
• Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
• Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
• Ability to work as part of a team., Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance
• Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
• Willingness to support management of change.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
• Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity, Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance
• Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
• Willingness to support management of change.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
• Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
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.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.