Staff Nurses/Staff Midwives in Shiremoor

North Tyneside Council are recruiting staff nurses/staff midwives to work within the Childrens Public Health Service (0-19 team).

Main duties of the job

Would you like to be part of an innovative skill mix team of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Public Health Staff Nurses and Child Development Practitioners? 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, Multi Agency 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 for the second time since 2020. Staff are provided with support and supervision from the Nurse Manager throughout their probationary period and beyond and have access to an identified preceptor.

About us

The Childrens Public Heath service offers opportunity for career progression and provides an atmosphere of continuous professional development with supervision and assessment of pre and post registration students. Benefits include access to NHS or Local Government Pension Schemes, a generous annual leave allowance, which increases with service, plus bank holidays. Your annual NMC fees are paid for by the service. Professional membership of iHV and/or SAPHNA. Agile Working supported by smart phone/laptop and access to technology such as Microsoft Teams and SystmOne. Access to Occupational Health services including physiotherapy and counselling. Our Employee Assistance programme which includes a telephone helpline and extensive online resources for support and advice. Discounted membership of fitness and wellbeing centres, including 5 gyms. The Benefits Plus Scheme enabling salary sacrifice for additional annual leave; Childcare Vouchers; Car Leasing; Cycle to Work scheme.

Job responsibilities

The purpose of the job is to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families, and addressing inequalities through the delivery of the healthy child programme and working as part of a skill mixed team. Working to the NMC code and within the policies and procedures for the legal and statutory requirements relating to clinical practice. The post holder will take a role in providing support for an effective transition to parenthood and adulthood, improving the health and well-being of children, young people and their families. The aim of the service is to 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. To provide a continuously improving service in line with the Childrens Public Health Service (0-19) Clinical Governance Framework and Public Health Service Plan.

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.

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.