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Job Summary

Dorset Health Care University NHS Foundation Trust (DHC) highly values the contribution that the CYP Public Health Service 0 - 19 makes to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families, using evidence-based, early intervention strategies.

Cheryl Wellington, Public Health Locality Lead for Poole East on  or

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

• To provide a high-quality person-centred approach to care delivery which always considers people's safety, privacy, and dignity.
• To work within the Children Young Person Public Health (CYP PH) Service to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions to children 0 to 5 and their families.
• To promote the health and wellbeing of the 0 to 5 population and their families.
• To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of patients / service users.
• To devise specialist programmes of care for members of the 0-19 team and other professionals, to deliver and ensure they are delivered appropriately.
• To plan, implement and review health improvement programmes in a range of settings and be proactive in delivering the national and local public health agendas in response to identified health and social need.
• To work in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives, and statutory requirements.
• Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners.
• To provide line management and leadership within the 0-19 team

• Registered Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner School Nursing degree/diploma level
• Membership of the relevant Professional Body
• Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio

• Recent previous experience within a comparable role
• Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively

• Experience of leading and managing a team
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring to junior staff

• Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems

• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
• Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills
• Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
• Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model

• Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.

• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.