Community nursery nurse

Community nursery nurses Haringey

We are seeking to employ Community Nursey Nurses with an NNEB or NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/CACHE or a Level 4 Certificate in Early Years Practice (OU) or a Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years to our Health Visiting/0-19 teams across Haringey. This is an exciting opportunity to join us as we expand our Community Nursery Nurse provision.

You would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills due to the nature of the role in working with children and families. Good communication with colleagues and partners is also essential to ensure local health priorities are addressed to improve health outcomes for children in Haringey.

Good computer skills are essential for the role and you will be involved in delivering key aspects of the Healthy Child Programme. Supporting the development of the service and working with colleagues and partners, to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective Universal Health Provision as delegated by the Health Visitor Team Leader. The role includes assessing children's development, supporting families with infant feeding and child development.

An induction programme will be offered and six month probation for Whittington Health will be undertaken.

Working for your organisation (‘About Us’)
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES

A. Leadership

1. To support the development of well functioning integrated teams by modelling effective team working and communication skills, and by supporting change within the service.

2. To ensure that individuals within the teams are aware of and work within the Trust policies and procedures. To ensure the maintenance of up to date, accurate records that complies with local and national standards.

3. To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems with staff and colleagues within Whittington Health, Children’s Centres, Schools and GP Practices.

4. To take every reasonable step to see that the working environment is safe, healthy and hazard free for staff and users, including ensuring that infection control procedures are in place.

5. To facilitate the use of information technology and ensure that relevant and up to date information on clinical and service developments are provided to agreed time-scales.

6. To participate in audit, research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol.

7. To participate in the induction of newly appointed team members.

B. Clinical

1. To work closely with the Universal Health Service team in the planning and delivery of health promotion activities and public health initiatives in a variety of settings.

2. To work within the Universal Health Service for Children team to meet the specific health needs of individual children and families, including carrying out programmes of work in the home.

3. To provide and promote access to information and other services, to refer as appropriate. To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and non-statutory agencies, and other health services colleagues.

4. To work in partnership with local Children’s Centres to involve parents with the programme and to have an input in the planning and delivery of services.

5. To participate in multi-agency working and develop links with local nurseries and other community groups

6. To work in partnership with colleagues and other professionals to promote healthy lifestyles and healthy schools through health promoting activities. To provide health promotion/ education in a range of settings and with groups and individuals.

7. To carry out Health Assessments on children at certain ages and review/refer as appropriate. To regularly monitor children with identified needs.

8. To work with the Team Leaders to support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or at risk. To adhere to current Local Safeguarding Board and London Child Protection Procedures, and attend child protection supervision.

9. To undertake mandatory training, and service specific training as required to maintain skills and competencies.

C. Partnership with Service Users

1. To support opportunities for ongoing involvement of children, young people, parents and carers in development of services and quality assurance.

D. Quality Assurance

1. To adhere to Clinical Governance mechanisms and monitoring systems that assures the quality of the service.

2. To comply with PCT infection control standards and policies, and attendance at annual infection control training.