Community Nursery Nurse- Health Visiting

To provide essential observation skills for the children and families within their homes, childrens centres, health centres/ GP surgeries and undertake nursery school visits, including working in partnership with the school health service to facilitate the smooth transition of the rising 5s To be proactive in establishing and facilitating effective Prevention and Early Intervention groups and deliver Health Promotion activities within a culturally diverse community based on locally identified needs through caseload profiling. To carry out assessments for the delivery of the mandated elements of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0 5, 5 -19 years to empower families and deliver the public health priorities to give every child the best start in life To provide knowledge and skills on safeguarding children and will be expected to highlight any safeguarding concerns in accordance with the Newham and London Safeguarding Protocols. To assist the health visitors in facilitating the healthy child advisory clinics including leading on the 2-2.5 years reviews using the national evidence based tool- Ages and Stages (ASQ) and delivery of the 6 high impact areas in partnership with Health visitors and childrens centres. To work in partnership with the Nursery Nurses within the school health teams to strengthen the integrated approach of the 0- 19 years delivery model the Children Act 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children, HM Government 2006.

Newham is an incredibly diverse borough with a very young population and is experiencing considerable regeneration as part of the Olympic legacy. There are over 86,000 children and young people in Newham and we want each of them to have the same life chances as young people in other parts of London. This post is directly employed by the London Borough of Newham, whom was the first London borough to offer a fully integrated 0-19 health and social care service. Therefore our CYPS directorate will be delivering the 0-19 Healthy Child programme through the Childrens Health 0-19 Service. We recognise that delivery of quality services to the community depends on a healthy, well-motivated workforce, we are therefore able to offer

• Genuine management support: Low supervisor/supervisee ratios. Employee wellbeing programmes. HEART values and behaviours.
• Money matters: Flexible starting salary within the allocated grade for the right candidates. Subsidised leisure passes. Generous local government annual leave allowance. Pension scheme. Continued access to the NHS Pension Scheme (NHSPS) for health professionals who satisfy the NHS Pension scheme criteria. NHS continuous service recognised.
• Learning & Development: Support to take up advanced clinical training and wider workforce development package to enhance your skills. Clear competency and career progression framework. Access to smart technology.