Staff Nurse in School Nursing in Coventry

Support the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the school age population. Supporting specific public health initiatives for children and young people, e.g. sexual health, risk taking behaviour or emotional needs. Help to reduce childhood obesity via the National Childhood Measurement Programme, promotion of healthy lifestyles and emotional health.

Support health needs assessment of reception Parent, year 6, 9 online Health Assessments. Responding to identified need/delegated alerts and feeding back to School Nurse outcome of intervention. Undertake brief interventions to ensure timely response to identified need, feeding back to the School Nurse as required.

Work in partnership with schools ensuring good communication between health and education. Respond to Chat health conversations and support the young people. Support the School Nurse to identify the needs of the geographical area by means of using profiling tools and accessing local data information from reliable sources, e.g. chimat and the public health observatory to ensure that planned interventions and all work undertaken is evidence based.

Undertake health need assessments as delegated by the School Nurse, of children and young people, including Children in Care Health Assessments reporting back findings to the School Nurse. Identify and support children, young people and families in need of universal plus services to address health needs.

When required co-ordinate with health care professionals, parents and schools to ensure that the child's/young person's health needs are met within the school environment. Support children, young people and families during the transition process from primary to secondary school, including the reviewing of parent health questionnaires and year six and year nine health questionnaires, so as to plan, deliver and evaluate interventions undertaken, in order to address health needs and escalate any concerns to School Nurse.

Have knowledge, understanding and adhere to Coventry Local Safeguarding Children's Partnership policies and procedures. This includes initiating referrals to Children's services when a child or young person is deemed at risk. Act on/document if required, intelligence or surveillance received from other sources, e.g. A&E forms, domestic abuse referrals, priority families, excluded children.

Attend the Trust statutory and mandatory training programme specific to the role and ensuring training is completed as per the Trust Essential Skills policy. Pay progression for annual increments is no longer automatic, all staff must have completed all their statutory and mandatory training and they must have had a staff appraisal in the last 12 months. The onus is on individuals to ensure that they meet these requirements.

Follow and adhere to the standards and guidelines set for School Nursing to ensure a consistent approach is followed. Work with the school nurse to ensure work is both researched and evidenced based. Support the uptake of the childhood immunisation programme and audiology when opportunities arise, with contacts with children, young people and families, in order to raise awareness of the importance of these programmes/tests for the benefit of the general health and wellbeing of children and young people.

Plan, coordinate, and manage own work and prioritise competing demands with support and direction from Band 6 or 7. In accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines for record keeping, maintain and keep contemporaneous records in whatever form they present, e.g. text, phone calls.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Maintain accurate records at all times, ensuring written work is countersigned by trained staff in line with trust policy. Must possess basic IT skills e.g. able to use Microsoft office/word. Participate in/access group or team clinical supervision, including safeguarding supervision. Participate in and contribute to team/locality meetings to keep up to date with trust information.

Measurable Result Areas

Health assessments are responded to within agreed timescale. Promote a whole school approach to healthy lifestyles; signpost to Be Active Be Healthy service where appropriate, proactively engage with 100% of pupils who have been identified as being clinically underweight. Work as part of a team to ensure that key performance indicator targets set by the Trust/and or the local authority are reached for school nursing services. Participate in clinical audits to improve service care and delivery.

Communications and Working Relationships

Support new staff, students and others into the Trust with induction/training programmes, and by undertaking supervisor/assessor role and keep updated. Support other team members to develop and apply their knowledge and skills. Prioritise and attend team meetings. Undertake risk assessments as required, following Trust policy. Ensure that the skill mix team receive clinical supervision appropriate to their role.