Staff Nurse

North Tyneside Council are recruiting staff nurses/staff midwives to work within the 0-19 Childrens Public Health Service. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to apply in the future, to the SCPHN Programme or Apprenticeship Programme with a view to become a qualified Health Visitor or School Nurse.

Would you like to be part of an innovative skill mix team of health visitors, school nurses, public health staff nurses and nursery nurses? This is your chance to work with an outstanding group of safeguarding and health professionals. The service has close working relationships with the early help service, multiagency safeguarding hub (MASH), education, housing, primary care, midwifery services and sport and leisure, which ensures good outcomes for families and provides positive working relationships for staff. The Signs of Safety model is embedded throughout the service and robust safeguarding supervision is provided to staff by Safeguarding Nurse Advisors.

North Tyneside Childrens Social Care has been graded Outstanding by Ofsted in 2025. Staff are provided with support and supervision from the Nurse Manager throughout their probationary period and beyond and have access to an identified preceptor.

Main duties of the job

The staff nurse/staff midwife is a member of the 0- 19 Childrens Public Health Service within a locality team. The post holder will promote and protect the health and well-being of children, young people and their families from the ante-natal period through to age 19 and address inequalities. Fundamental to the aim of the service is universal access to the healthy child programme and early identification of additional and/or complex needs.

• Registered Nurse / Adult / Child / Mental Health or Registered Midwife
• Current NMC registration.
• Relevant and recent nursing experience
• Knowledge of current issues relating to public health priorities and addressing inequalities in outcomes.
• Understanding of adult/child safeguarding procedures
• Understanding the national drivers with regards to providing a 0-19 service

About us

Applying

To apply for this role please click the link below and you will be taken to the North Tyneside Careers Portal.

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Learn More

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Job responsibilities

The purpose of the job is to improve the health andwellbeing of children, young people and families, and addressing inequalitiesthrough the delivery of the healthy child programme and working as part of askill mixed team.

The staff nurse/staff midwife isa member of the 0- 19 Childrens Public Health Service within an integratedlocality team.

Working to the NMC code andwithin the policies and procedures for the legal and statutory requirementsrelating to clinical practice.

The post holder will take a rolein providing support for an effective transition to parenthood and adulthood,improving the health and well-being of children, young people and theirfamilies.

The aim of the service is topromote and protect the health and well-being of children, young people andtheir families from the ante-natal period through to age 19 and addressinequalities.

Fundamental to the aim of theservice is universal access to the healthy child programme and earlyidentification of additional and/or complex needs.

To provide a continuously improving service inline with the 0 – 19 Clinical Governance Framework and Public Health ServicePlan.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Adult/Child/Mental Health or Registered
• Midwife
• Current NMC registration.
• Relevant and recent nursing experience
• Evidence of on-going professional development.
• Practice, Supervisor and Assessor training.

Experience

• Child protection / Safeguarding Children / experience of national and local policies.
• Health promotion
• Multi Agency working
• IT and keyboard skills for the use of report writing information retrieval and access of evidence-based practice.
• Use of expert data systems for client care, audit, service planning and health profiling, e.g. SystmOne.
• Use of equipment to support developmental assessment and screening and the provision of clinical care.
• Educational equipment to support health promotion and learners.
• Accepts referrals from other disciplines and refer clients to Tier 3 services
• Caseload management
• Community development work.

Knowledge

• Adhere to Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and to national and local policies.
• Knowledge of current issues relating to public health priorities and addressing inequalities in outcomes.
• Understanding of adult/child safeguarding procedures
• Understanding the national drivers with regards to providing a 0-19 service

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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