Community Nursery Nurse

Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT) Public Health Nursing, Children's Service are looking for Band 4 Community Nursery Nurses who are innovative, forward thinking, and passionate about making a difference for children, young people and their families.

We are pro-active public health practitioners who work within skill mixed teams, closely with children from 0-19 years and their family, to support them in making healthy lifestyle choices and accessing other specialist services to meet their health needs. The community nursery nurse will provide support to the school nurses and health visitors and undertake reviews, deliver packages of care and facilitate well-baby clinics/ drop-ins, showing commitment in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and ensuring our service delivery is of high quality and research based.

Main duties as outlined below will be dependent on the area placed.

Closing Date: 10th April 2023 (may close early)

Shortlisting Date: 13th April 2023

Interview date: 20th April 2023

Main duties will include:

• Delivering a public health offer in primary schools/ nurseries.
• Running and supporting drop-in sessions at the local family hubs/ schools.
• Offering support/ information and/or delivering packages of care related to various topics, including continence, behaviour, sleep, behaviour, breast feeding, weaning, school readiness, maternal mood and child development and growth.
• Completing development reviews in line with the Healthy Child Programme, assessing Child development and supporting onward referral to specialist services.
• Work in conjunction with the school nurse, health visitor or staff nurse where required to assist in meeting the health needs of the child and family.
• To liaise with the named school nurse/ health visitor regarding complex health needs or safeguarding concerns.
• Ensure effective communication with the wider team, ensuring any work undertaken is communicated effectively to the named school nurse/ health visitor for the child/family.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care- We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen- We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver- We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Additional cost of living payments for bands 1 – 7

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities

You will be solution focused and adaptable to change and able to work both autonomously and part of an integrated skill mix team. You will possess good organisational skills and be able to support other team members to deliver mandated contacts and provide early, public health education and support to our service users. You will be able to form good working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and possess excellent communication skills.

The successful postholder will be positioned into either a school nurse or health visiting team and may be asked to work across both teams.

Please read the attached Job description and person the specification for more details about this role.