School Nurse - Service Waltham Forest

Are you aqualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse or are a student SCPHN School Nurse, qualifying in the next fewmonths?

Do you have:

• Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
• A willingness to train and progress.
• Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
• Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
• Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.

If yes, wewould love to hear from you.

Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make afundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children andtheir families in Waltham Forest.

We offer our school nurses:

• Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
• Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
• Forums when you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff, and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards,
• AttractiveNHS Pension Scheme, Annual Leave and much more.

For more benefits on offer please see Benefit flyer attached.

Applicants from the past six months need not reapply.

We have within Waltham Forest excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated School Nurses who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.

We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you, is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care, supporting children, young people and families have the best start in life delivered by outstanding people.

We have excellent partnership working with Waltham Forest Public Health Service, Primary and Secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to attend a face to face interview.

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is an Inclusive Employer.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in the job description. We also encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, disabled etc applicants because they are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Tower HamletsGP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014.Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices,deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovation and support for primary care
• Beinga great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage a caseload of designated schoolsor area as the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the publichealth initiatives to the caseload.
• To be responsible for identifying need…