Band 5 School Nurse in Basildon

As a Band 5 School Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 Agenda for Change salary and terms and conditions, including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards

On behalf of the NHS, Essex County Council and WECCG, HCRG Care Group and Barnardo’s are commissioned to provide a range of children, young people and family services throughout Essex that are free at the point of delivery. The service, known as the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, focuses on ensuring that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life through meeting the identified needs of children, young people and their families.

As a School Nurse within the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service you’ll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and who recently received a “Good” CQC rating.

As a School Nurse, you’ll join a Healthy Family Team who are focused on clinical excellence. Your days will be rewarding and varied and include offering support to children and families and empowering them to reach their full potential.

• There is a Healthy Family Team located within every District of Essex made up of a Multi-disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses, Family Wellbeing Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.
• You will work alongside SCPHN School Nurses and be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, including assessment of health needs, development, implementation, and evaluation of packages of care.
• You will work as a team to offer every family a universal School Nursing service to support aspects of a child/young person’s development and health from Transition into School up to the age of 19 (25 for SEND).
• You will provide leadership and act as a positive role model by supporting colleagues and demonstrating excellent standards of care.
• You will undertake mentorship responsibilities for pre-registration students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members.
• You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team. SCPHN training is available after 1 year in post.
• Regular safeguarding supervision will be provided along with opportunities for continued professional development.

Ideal Candidate

• You will have a Nursing or Midwifery qualification and experience of working with children and young people, along with a passion and drive to help ensure that children have the best possible start in life.
• You will be NMC Registered.
• A comprehensive induction programme is provided by our dedicated Practice Education Team. Applications from newly qualified Nurses looking to start their career in a community setting will be considered.
• You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
• You will have a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work use.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices.