School Health Nurse (TEDS)

A rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced School Health Nurse (SHN) to work within the TEDS team for a 1 year fixed secondment. The TEDS team supports children with a moderate to severe developmental delay, requiring a targeted or specialist level of support under the healthy child program. You will be passionate about promoting best practice for children with a moderate to severe developmental delay in Portsmouth. You will be delivering an enhanced Community Health Nurse offer to children with developmental delays and their family. You will have experience and knowledge of children with complex disabilities and or developmental delay and an understanding of the wider teams who support children with developmental and disability needs.

You will be working alongside Specialist Health Visitors, a community nurse and a nursery nurse in the TEDS team. Referred babies and children will have been identified as having a developmental delay at health review and be suitable for targeted and specialist levels of the Healthy Child Programme. The SHN role will support interventions around school readiness. You will provide interventions to support needs around behaviour management, toilet training, sleep and feeding difficulties associated with a developmental delay. You will support parents to access community resources. You will support children to access nursery settings and update the Early Years Support Panel where additional funding is required or if the child needs a specialist setting., The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of health needs of children and young people with SEND from 3.5 to 16 years in the community and at two specialist schools in Portsmouth. Promoting the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care identified within the defined client group and their families.

To work alongside TEDS Health Visitors, TEDS Community Health Nurse (CHN), parent and carers, nurseries, school year co-ordinators and Senior Managers to encourage parental involvement in school readiness and subsequent years in education settings.

To be part of a locality-based team supervised by both School Nurse SCPHN and Health Visiting Clinical Team Co-ordinator working with preschool children with a development delay and school age children attending a specialist provision in the City. You will be expected to relay key health promotion messages to children, families and staff in education.

Main responsibilities will be, but not limited to

Identify health needs by implementing the Healthy Child Programme in accordance with Health Visiting and School Nursing policies and guidelines

Provide school readiness interventions for children in preschool year for children with development delay

Contribute to Education health and care plan reports, co production meetings and transition plans for starting school.

Be able to demonstrate a positive approach and be able to foster this in others, helping them to identify and achieve what is needed

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.