Family Nurse

+ 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.

Working for our organisation
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:
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, + Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model
+ Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
+ Use the FNP New Mums Star as a framework for programme delivery
+ Utilise the Intimate Partner Violence Clinical Pathway as a strengths-based framework that is grounded in an understanding of and responsiveness to the impact of trauma, that emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for both providers and survivors, and that creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment
+ Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
+ Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
+ Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
+ Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
+ Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
+ Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
+ Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating EHAF and taking lead professional role where required.
+ At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
+ Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
+ Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of children's growth, development and language skills.
+ Deliver the Knowledge and Skills Framework positively and effectively and represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.
+ Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate.
+ Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
+ Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours within the hours of 8-6. This may include following families across districts to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.
+ Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
+ Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
+ Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.
+ Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
+ Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
+ Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance.
+ Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider service's approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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.
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.
Are you a passionate advocate for teenage parents who is inclusive, brave, open to challenge, and purposeful? Are you committed to working in a cohesive team, with clear and shared values? If so, this job is for you and we would welcome your application.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.