Family Nurse in Liverpool

The Family Nurse will:

• Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model.
• Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
• Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
• Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
• Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
• Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
• Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery and personalisation of the programme.
• Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
• Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
• Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
• Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families.
• This includes initiating family/early help and taking lead professional role where required.
• At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
• Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting.
• Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
• Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of children's growth, development and language skills.
• Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.
• Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate.
• Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.
• Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
• Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
• Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.
• Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
• Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
• Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP 0-19 clinical programmes unit guidance.
• Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.