Family Nurse

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based early intervention programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development outcomes along with improvements to parents' economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. A unique opportunity has arisen in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust FNP team for either a Family Nurse with high level generalist and specialist skills to cover maternity leave for 12months.,

• To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.
• To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achieve the following;
- improve the outcomes of pregnancy, - improve children's health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care - improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work.
• To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.
• To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.
• Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
• To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability 3. Improving the experience of staff with disability 4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development 5. Making equalities mainstream

Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme. This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations