Practice Facilitator School Nurse Barking and Dagenham

We are looking for a School Nurse with strong clinical leadership skills who can motivate and challenge practice. The post holder will be the clinical lead for the Barking and Dagenham Children's services in supporting the Barking and Dagenham for School Nursing. This will also include the evaluation and management of those developments to ensure best practice is achieved. The focus will be related to 0-19 School Nursing practices but occasionally some of the developments involve multi-professional initiatives, where there is integrated service across statutory organisation/voluntary colleagues. The post holder will also be responsible for the provision of an effective and robust Continued Professional and Practice Development (CPPD) system for registered SCPHNs, nurses and non-registered nurses across the service. This will also include the identification, development delivery and management of a range of support systems as well as education and training initiatives. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate effective methods of change management and be confident in delivering educational initiatives to support the new commissioned contract focusing on School Nursing delivery.,

• To work with 0-19 Operational Leads/Team Leads/Preceptors/SCPTs to agree and develop induction and preceptorship plans for newly recruited Band 5, Band 6, Band 7 registered staff and Community Nursery Nurses and Clinical Assistants.
• 20% of the role will remain clinically hands on.
• To organise regular 'Learning together' forums which is part teaching session and part action learning set.
• Identify service gaps and issues relating to effective clinical pathways and /or cross boundary arrangements. Escalate evidence of ineffective safeguarding arrangements within or outside of the early intervention team.
• Assist in the evaluation and analysis of the health contribution to the early intervention process.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
• To supervise pre and post registration students.
• Support transformation of school nursing in coproducing with service user, stakeholders and partners.
  
  Starting with NELFTNELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
  
  This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
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