Community Staff Nurse, Young Greenwich School Nursing | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Community Staff Nurse, Young Greenwich School Nursing | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

FULL TIME- 37.5 hours per week (Term Time Only)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Staff Nurse to join our dynamic Young Greenwich School Nursing team.

Young Greenwich is a new integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The programme is led by Oxleas and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together form the Young Greenwich Partnership.

Young Greenwich will deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for pupils in schools into community-based activities and support and vice versa.

The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated and enthusiastic delivering the healthy child programme and model of community health across schools in Greenwich. We are looking for a Staff Nurse that possess excellent communication skills and have a forward thinking approach to new ways of working within our partnership in youth hubs including developing the parenting support with our Health Advisors.

You must be a registered nurse, with a working knowledge of safeguarding, team-working and excellent IT skills. In addition, applicants must have a current driving license with access to a car for work.

Overview of the Post

To deliver aspects of the 5-19 Healthy Child Programme.

To improve and promote the health of all children and young people in Greenwich.

To support children and young people to realise their potential in health, education / training (where applicable), and their contribution to the wider community.

Overview of the Young Greenwich service

Young Greenwich is a new integrated programme commissioned by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The key purpose of the programme is to enable young people to develop holistically,working with them to facilitate their personal, social, and educational aspirations with an aim to develop their voice and reach their full potential.

The programme is led by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (Oxleas) and delivered with partners Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) who together form the Young Greenwich Partnership.

Young Greenwich will deliver seamlessly in and out of schools, youth hubs and other community venues with strong pathways for pupils in schools into community-based activities and support and vice versa.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• To work with parents/carers, children, other professionals including education and statutory/voluntary organisations.
• To participate in the delivery of Young Greenwich service key touch points. These include promoting the annual year 6 health & wellbeing reviews.
• To plan, deliver and evaluate health promotion work with school aged children, families…