Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - School Nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – School Nurse

Employer: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Torquay, England, United Kingdom

Employment type: Full-time

Seniority level: Entry level

Job function: Health Care Provider

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. Come and be part of a dynamic and evolving School Nurse team. We are looking for a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse (SN) within the integrated 0 to 19 Torbay Partnership.

• Work with school aged children and their families, being flexible to meet the needs of clients.
• Promote and lead on providing a strength asset-based approach to services delivered.
• Work collaboratively to support school attendance where there is a health need.
• Deliver confidential school nurse drop‑ins for secondary age children.
• Work alongside the Vulnerable Pupils team to identify and support those children who are at risk and whose families may require additional support.
• Value differences and individuality, showing respect to all when working with children, young people and their families and carers.
• Develop effective client centred decision‑making processes.
• Be diversity aware where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties of comprehension, and use adjustments and adaptations to communicate.
• Use knowledge of local area and services to benefit the client and their family.
• Take a proactive role in quality and service improvement.
• Follow trust policies and pathways and use discretion in interpreting them according to the setting and circumstances.
• Work closely with the 0 to 19 Torbay teams in providing joined up care to clients.
• Maintain constructive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with TSDFT Children’s Safeguarding team.

We are providing care to children, young people and their families differently in Torbay. Our 0 to 19 Torbay service includes colleagues from Action For Children. We provide a trauma informed, restorative approach to all of our families, with early help and intervention being central to all that we do.

We are an innovative service, and encourage staff to actively participate in the development of our team. We are involved with national research projects and strive to make an impact on the public health agenda.

In return you will be offered a welcoming team, supported with compassionate leadership, have regular supervision, and opportunities for self and career development.

For further details or informal visits, contact:
Tracey Griffin, 0to19 Torbay School Nurse Team Leader
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