Community Nursery Nurse

The Children's service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed need., The Children's service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependant on assessed need.

The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, immunisations, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme (Department of Health, 2008).

The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.

The Community Nursery Nurse (CNN) is an integral member of the Children's team.

The post holder will support the Health Visitor in their work with children and families, with the overall aim of helping each identified child to achieve its full potential.

The work of the CNN will be part of a planned programme of care within the Healthy Child programme (0 - 19) delegated by the Health Visitor, who has completed the initial assessment.

All activities undertaken by the Nursery Nurse will be at the discretion/delegation of the Health Visitor/School Health, after appropriate in-service training has been given, and level of competency demonstrated.

The post holder will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.