Public Health Nurse Job – Band 5

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