Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Nursing Associate - School Nursing
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Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic Nursing Associate to join our School Nursing Team within Milton Keynes.
This relatively new post, that will support the current School Nursing Team to deliver the 5-19 element of the Healthy Child Programme. You will have an interest in preventative health with a passion for delivering safe, high-quality care to children and young people within the school, home and clinic setting.
Safeguarding children is at forefront of all the work carried out by the team and as a Nursing Associate you will support families as part of the Early Intervention Strategy.
The Role of the Nursing Associate is to assist and support the School Nurses (SN’s) and Registered Nurses (RN’s) in ensuring optimal care is delivered across Milton Keynes. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high quality, family centred compassionate care under the direction of a School Nurse or Registered Nurse, with a focus on promoting public health and safeguarding. You will be an accountable professional and have the ability to work without constant direct supervision; within the parameters of practice by undertaking a range of duties appropriate to the level of responsibility and knowledge and skills acquired
Main duties of the job
- To work within the Nursing Associate parameters of practice to deliver high- quality, compassionate care to children aged 5-19 years, with a focus on promoting health and independence.
- To work under the delegation of the School Nurse, managing a caseload, delivering planned packages of care.
- Assist in the delivery of high-quality evidence-based programmes either with individual or groups of parents/carers/children, to improve outcomes for children and young people.
- Deliver care to families in their homes, community locations and Schools.
- Assist in the planning and delivery of programmes and activities such as; health needs assessments, continence, obesity/healthy eating, oral health, sleep and school readiness.
- Support parents and young people with enuresis information, face to face, virtually and in a group setting.
- Work in partnership with parents/carers, families and multi-disciplinary colleagues to maximise service delivery and to maintain effective relationships and communication.
- Maintain clinical records in line with record keeping policy.
- Maintain effective working relationships within the team and with other professionals.
- Communicate professionally, demonstrating active listening and the ability to ask sensitive and appropriate questions with excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Have an awareness of local safeguarding procedures and appropriately respond to any identified concerns.
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Come and join our School Nursing Service!
Are you a Nursing Associate who is highly motivated with excellent team working and communication skills? If so then we would love you to come and join us!
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We are currently recruiting to School Nursing Service which has recently implemented a new model of delivery. Our new model incorporates the development of new ways of working to meet the needs of our diverse and growing population. Please contact us for a discussion about our plans and what we can offer each other. We would also like to hear from you if you are Nursing Associate who is due to qualify soon. We actively encourage any applicants to come and meet the management team and 0-19 colleagues.
We can offer you:
- A friendly, welcoming, nurturing and encouraging work environment that will support you in your practice and development
- Local induction and an allocated mentor
- Preceptorship for newly qualified staff
- Strong leadership and management support
- Regular clinical, management, and safeguarding supervision.
- A clinical training programme to support your practice, tailored to your individual needs
- A strong focus on staff wellbeing and access to excellent staff engagement programs and support services via our People Development team.
For additional things that CNWL can also offer please see the information attached to the advert.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
See attachment in vacancy for full Nursing Associate Job Description and Personal Specification.
Role requirements for shortlisting
Experience:
Essential:
- Understand the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation; including how the role may contribute to service development
Desirable:
- Experience of supporting children and their families
Knowledge and Skills:
Essential:
- Aware of the Healthy Child Programme and the involvement of the 0-19 Team in its delivery
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
Personal Qualities:
Essential:
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with children and young people/vulnerable adults
Person specification
Education, Qualifications And Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the United Kingdom NMC register
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
Desirable criteria
- NNEB Diploma in child care and Education awarded by CACHE or equivalent
- Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Year
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understand the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation; including how the role may contribute to service development
- Understand and act in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
- Understand requirements for NMC professional revalidation.
- Understand the importance of following procedures, polices and treatment or care plans.
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
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Desirable criteria
- Experience of supporting children and their families
- Community experience
- Able to undertake autonomous and independent working
- A sound knowledge of issues around confidentiality
- Children’s safeguarding experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Aware of the Healthy Child Programme and the involvement of the 0-19 Team in its delivery
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload
- Ability to communicate effectively, written, verbal, or non-verbal communication, with parents/carers and young people
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
- Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people/vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances.
- Knowledge of equality and diversity issues, social exclusion and multi-cultural issues Is up-to-date with legislation and current events
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using Systmone
- Report writing
- Presentation skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Has a balanced understanding of self and others
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
- Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with children and young people/vulnerable adults
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach
Other
Essential criteria
- Car user with use of a car and full UK Valid Driving Licence
- Ability to travel across the Milton Keynes sometimes at short notice and carry necessary equipment.
- Flexible working to meet the needs of the service, this may be on occasions outside normal office hours
Emotional and Mental Effort
Essential criteria
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
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