School Nurse

We are looking for a School Nurse with Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) qualifications, to join either our public health or safeguarding team delivering the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme.

Its an exciting time to join our team as we role out the new working model to protect the delivery of public health, offering consistency and support to our vulnerable families and young people. We pride ourselves on our excellent hands-on community nursing care and have dedicated onsite team leaders for support.

We have opportunities for flexible working, have access to engagement and wellbeing services and share a motivation to work together providing outstanding public health nursing care to the families of Warrington.

If we sound like the team for you and you would like more information on joining us, then please get in touch.

Main duties of the job

You will need to have a broad understanding of children and young people's health issues and be able to demonstrate flexibility and creative thinking in respect of service delivery. Knowledge of recent documents and strategies driving the development of universal and equitable services for children is essential as well as understanding the principles of safeguarding children and young people.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills are required with a commitment to team working as well as being able to demonstrate working using own initiative. You will work closely with schools, children and young people and their families, our partner agencies, and commissioners to deliver a quality service.

You will be the named School Health Nurse for an identified High School, college, and a cluster of Primary schools. Manage the defined caseload, using a public health approach to provide and maintain a high-quality service that promotes the physical and mental health of the school aged population and their families.

Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 519 and co-ordinate the delivery of public health interventions for the post holders assigned schools under the direction of the 0-19 Team Leader. This will include health screening/surveillance health assessment, immunisations, and a requirement to support the health needs of any vulnerable children/young people within the caseload.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.