This Family Nurse post sits within the Family Nurse Partnership, a licensed programme delivered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The work is intensive home visiting with vulnerable young women expecting a first child, building trusting relationships over one and a half to two and a half years. Its distinct features are the structured clinical model, work with fathers and extended family, and travel across a wide area. Applicants need current NMC registration.
What the job involves
- Deliver the Family Nurse Partnership intensive home visiting programme to pregnant young women and their families
- Recruit, engage and retain eligible families on the programme, following programme requirements
- Carry out detailed clinical assessments using the New Mum Star framework and plan individual care goals with clients
- Take the lead professional role where children or young people need an integrated package from several practitioners
- Work therapeutically with family members, including fathers and the extended family, to support behaviour change
- Manage complex and highly distressing situations, including safeguarding children and family breakdown
- Co-ordinate care with other professionals and agencies and refer clients to specialist services
- Initiate Universal Help Assessments and support families to use universal health and support services
- Contribute to the Child Health Promotion Programme, including assessing children's growth, development and language
- Maintain clinical quality through reflective supervision and deliver the programme with fidelity
- Keep full, accurate and contemporaneous records, including on the FNP data system
- Visit clients across a wide geographical area, including neighbouring boroughs, and manage own workload
Qualifications
- Nursing or midwifery qualification, with degree-level or equivalent qualification or experience (Masters-level equivalent training accepted)
- Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on clinical competence
Registration & licences
- Current, valid NMC registration
Experience
- At least 2 years working with families in deprived communities, and 2 years in midwifery, child health, public health or home visiting
- Experience as a Family Nurse, working with young people in a constantly changing environment
- Clinical supervision experience and willingness to engage in clinical and managerial supervision
Skills & knowledge
- Managing strong emotions, sensitive issues, distressing events and courageous conversations
- Clear written and verbal communication, with facilitative and motivating skills
- Building supportive relationships, working with diverse groups and as part of a close-knit team
- Setting priorities, solving problems quickly, and numeracy, literacy in English and basic computer skills
- Some knowledge of the FNP research base and the difference between advice-giving and motivational approaches
Checks & eligibility
- Right to work in the UK
- Able to work with children and vulnerable adults
- Able to travel daily between sites across Southampton, Portsmouth and Hampshire, with a full UK driving licence where driving is part of the role
Other
- Understanding of national and local safeguarding policies, infection control and health and safety responsibilities
- Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and personal commitment to challenging discrimination
Nice to have
- Motivational interviewing
- Counselling
- Attachment theory
- Self-efficacy theory
- Human ecology theory
- Behaviour change theory
- Parent/infant mental health
- Understanding of Improving Working Lives
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests can be discussed as part of the interview process
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
