Public Health Nurse Job – Band 5 at Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust – WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our St Helens North 0-19 team as a Public Health Nurse, supporting the delivery of a public health offer to children and young people and delivering the Healthy Child Programme core offer. The role gives a great insight to our service and has supported employees to develop into other roles associated with public health and 0-19 services. We have great feedback from students and staff who enjoy working within a friendly and supportive team.
Main duties of the job
Supporting the 0-19 service to deliver the public health offer in St Helens.
Managing a safeguarding caseload, including completing health assessments, contributing to multiagency meetings and completing reports.
Delegation and work planning/organisation
Facilitating clinics across St Helens
Working for our organisation
The St Helens 0-19 service is a friendly supportive team offering staff the opportunity to work flexibly if needed.
We work with the trust values of compassion openness and Trust ensuring that we demonstrate these values to children and families in St Helens and to each other.
We have daily safety huddles to support staff at the beginning of each day and monthly team meetings.
Supervision is available to all staff both planned and reactive.
We work closely with our specialist Safeguarding nurses to ensure staff feel supported and have access to appropriate training and induction
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- RN (Adult or Child/RSCN) or RM
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship
- Motivational Interviewing
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working within the 0-19 Team and evidence of managing a school nursing caseload
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Ability to use email, internet and word processing software.
Desirable criteria
- Delivering public health sessions in schools
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and non-verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to support students in placement
- Ability to support and motivate staff
- Effective interpersonal skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Access to a car for work purpose
- Commitment
- Vision