B4 Community Nursery Nurse - School Nursing

Are you a Community Nursery Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to work within in Barnet, supporting families and their children aged between 0-11 years through the delivery of services in schools, children centres, homes, clinics and green spaces., You will be working as a member of the school nursing team and alongside both health and early years staff in schools. Your role is to support the school nurse liaison with school nurseries contacts with a particular focus on the 3-6 year old cohort, delivering agreed interventions and supporting engagement in the wealth of activities on offer including minor illness, oral health and much more., You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme across schools in Barnet. Will be developing relationships with school nurseries to enhance the school readiness programme.

Barnet School Nurses are a key partner delivering the 5-19 services in the local area, offering support and advice to families. We have a vacancy for 3 Community Nursery Nurses with an NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/CACHE Level 3 Diploma or equivalent., You would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills withcolleagues and partners as well as families and children. Good computer skills are essential for the role, and you will be expected to work with the local electronic patient record system.

There are lots of opportunities to participate in activities and training such as school readiness programme, asthma programme as well as facilitating groups such as toilet training, continence assessments and parents coffee mornings. All of this work is managed within a framework which explains the training and supervision on offer starting with the induction programme and a six month probation which applies to all staff at Whittington., 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.