Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Visitor or School Nurse to join theMulti Agency Child Protection and Assesment Team. The post holder will be key in offering a health perspective as part of the child protection process. This team will include a mix of social workers, health practitioners, police and education.

Main duties of the job

·To be a health expert in safeguarding and child protection.

·To interpret health information accurately to support the safeguarding process and offer relevant advice and guidance to the wider multi agency team.

·To work in collaboration with the multi agency team.

·To be a conduit between children’s social care and the wider health network to ensure timely and relevant information is shared as part of the child protection process.

·To be the lead professional where required.

·To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to junior staff.

·To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day to day allocation of work.

·To offer clinical health advice to support decision making within the child protection process and support the lead for health within the team.

·To have organisational, local and national knowledge surrounding safeguarding and child protection to inform decision making.

·To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.

·To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting.

·To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.

·To be able to analyse and interpret health information to inform multiagency risk assessments and safety plans.

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Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·Have a in depth knowledge of how health impacts safeguarding and be able to articulate this clearly in safeguarding and child protection proceedings.

·Use professional and clinical judgement to support the assessments of children and families to develop and provide appropriate clinical interventions.

·To work effectively in distressing or emotional circumstances, safeguarding children.

·To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

·The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – SCPHN HV

·To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to children and families.

·To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the needs of children and families with a variety of needs. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.

·To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

·To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.

·At all times consider the safety of the child, working in line with local safeguarding policies.

·To ensure clinical and safeguarding supervision are maintained.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – Health visitor/SN To hold a relevant qualification at masters level or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

Safeguarding Level 4 trained Safeguarding supervisor trained

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum of 2 years post SCPHN qualification, working actively as a Health Visitor or School Nurse Minimum of 2 years experience in working with vulnerable families Line management experience

Desirable criteria

Experience in collecting and analysing data

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of adverse childhood experiences Awareness of Trauma Informed Practice An awareness of substance misuse

Skills

Essential criteria

To be able to work with families using a strength-based approach, using SMART goals To be able to communicate effectively with families, children and other professionals To be able to work with families using trauma informed practice

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.