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Specialist Practitioner School Nursing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
This specialist practitioner post sits in the children and young people public health service within Dorset Health Care University NHS Foundation Trust, covering the 0-19 team. The work centres on delivering the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 5 to 19 and their families, alongside the Chat Health texting service, safeguarding and requests for support from schools and partners. The post also carries line management of the 0-19 team and supervision of students and practitioners.
Applicants need a school nursing specialist community public health registration, and those who require Skilled Worker sponsorship are ineligible.
- Lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions for children aged 5 to 19 and their families
- Work with the pan-Dorset 0-19 public health teams to respond to identified needs, including Chat Health, safeguarding and School Nursing Requests for Support
- Promote the health and wellbeing of the 5 to 19 population and their families
- Provide specialist advice on the management and care of patients and service users
- Devise specialist programmes of care for the 0-19 team and other professionals, and make sure they are delivered appropriately
- Plan, implement and review health improvement programmes across a range of settings, in line with national and local public health agendas
- Work in partnership with other agencies to meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements
- Provide line management and leadership to the 0-19 team
- Provide supervision, mentorship, training and clinical support to students and trained practitioners
- Deliver person-centred care that always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity
- Degree or diploma level school nursing qualification
- Registration as a specialist community public health practitioner (school nursing)
- Membership of the relevant professional body
- Specialist working experience
- Recent experience in a comparable role
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of developing specialist programmes of care and giving highly specialist advice
- Experience of clinical supervision and mentoring of junior staff
- Experience of leading and managing a team
- Specialist clinical reasoning to make clinical judgements on diagnosis and intervention
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Knowledge of Trust strategy relevant to the role
- Communicating effectively at all levels on complex, sensitive or contentious information, using negotiating or persuasive skills
- Overcoming barriers to understanding where people have physical or mental disabilities
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up-to-date portfolio
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours
- Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification or equivalent practice assessor training
- Experience of devising and delivering training
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