SCPHN School Nurse - North Northants - Thriving in Life Service

The SCPHN (School Nurse) will join the 11-19 Thriving in Life Service, delivered by NHFT in partnership with Service Six and Youth Works. Working across North Northamptonshire, the post holder will manage a caseload, assess need, prioritise referrals and coordinate support for children, young people and families. As part of a multidisciplinary team, the SCPHN will provide clinical leadership, supervision and guidance, ensuring safe and effective service delivery. The role involves working in schools, clinics, community settings and homes, delivering public health interventions and promoting positive health and wellbeing outcomes. The post holder will build strong relationships with schools and partner agencies, identify emerging health needs and contribute to service development and health improvement initiatives. A key aspect of the role is ensuring children, young people and families are actively involved in decisions about their care. The SCPHN will also play an important safeguarding role, supporting vulnerable children and families and working closely with multi-agency partners to ensure appropriate interventions are in place., As a clinical specialist and a leader in the skill mixed team you will triage new referrals, complete and delegate clinical assessments and short term interventions covering a range of wellbeing needs for young people and families based around four thematic areas:

• Reducing Risk Taking Behaviours & Making Healthier Choices
• Sexual Health & Healthy Relationships
• Transition to Adulthood
• Emotional Health & Wellbeing
Interventions may include, but are not limited to:
• Sleep
• Continence
• Eating Disorders
• Self Harm
• Sexual Health and Healthy Relationships
As part of the Thriving in Life Service and in partnership with your skill-mix team, you will develop close working relationships with secondary schools and use the themes emerging from these contacts to inform and influence the school in relation to emerging needs, risks and opportunities for health improvement. As a key safeguarding professional you will form effective partnerships and relationships with colleagues across the safeguarding MDT. As a leader in your team you will support the training and development of new staff and students and support the continual development of the Thriving in Life service so that we can achieve our aims of helping children, young people and families to thrive. You will be required to offer both clinical and safeguarding supervision to your team.

You will demonstrate strong leadership, safeguarding, public health and caseload management skills. The role requires effective partnership working, a commitment to person-centred care and a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.