Senior School Nurse - Band 6

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We are able to offer further SCPHN School Nurse posts in Gloucestershire in East (Stroud and Cotswolds) and West (Gloucester city and Forest) teams, both full time and part time hours are available.

This is an exciting opportunity for us to develop the leadership of our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service. Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health?

We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want.

We provide mobile working with laptops and electronic records, enabling place based and digital first interventions.

We have developed social media platforms and use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families.

We take a trauma informed approach to planning and delivering care, working in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring shared decision making and goal setting through restorative practice.

We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed.

We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We Can Offer

Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks

Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role

Clinical Supervision, Safeguarding Supervision and Restorative Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.

Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important. Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all our colleagues.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Our Staff Survey results showed people at our Trust feel they are engaged, part of a team and work for a compassionate and inclusive organisation.

Our overall scores were better than average in eight of nine themes and level in one - the best overall results for a community, mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the south west and first equal amongst all sector NHS providers within the region too.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bridget Davies Job title: Head of School Nursing Email address: bridget.davies@ghc.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07970 954 971