Community Staff Nurse- Health Visiting

The Hillingdon Health Visiting service have a number of band 5 community staff nurse vacancies accross the borough. The post holder of Community Staff Nurse in Health Visiting works as a member of the Health Visiting Service to deliver the Health Visitor Service Specification and Healthy Child Programme to residents of Hillingdon. Work is delegated to Community Staff Nurses by Health Visitors; the skills and knowledge of Community Staff Nurses enhance and complement the team and help in the early intervention and prevention work of the service and the support of families. Community Staff Nurses are required to work in partnership the families, health care professionals and professionals fromm other agencies. The Band 5 Community Staff Nurse will work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends, and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide.,

• To contribute to the delivery of the Health Visitor Service Specification, Healthy Child Programme,
• To support the Health Visiting Team and Service to provide a range of services across the borough, including public health, mental health and parenting initiatives.
• To undertake group working within the Trust and in partnership with other organisation
• To work in partnership with Health Visitors in the identification and safeguarding of vulnerable children by contributing to case conferences, core groups, team around family meetings, working to develop and deliver plan of care in accordance with local and nationalguidelines.
• To work with partner agencies, liaising and delivering care as identified.
• To follow Trust policies and procedures with reference to issues such as confidentiality, record keeping and health and safety.
• To plan and manage workload as designated by a Health Visitor and report any untoward findings to a Health Visitor as soon as possible.
• To support the service to deliver a five day a week service to the families of Hillingdon.
• To participate in the induction and support of new staff members and students.
• To participate in clinical, safeguarding and management supervision, appraisal and personal development process.
• To develop and build skills of team leadership and management and caseload management
  
  Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Community Staff Nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.