Health Inequalities Nurse - Children & Young People in Weymouth

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to work across Weymouth and Portland to support the development of services for Children and Young People, with a particular focus on inequalities. This role is ideally suited to a senior nurse or ACP, and experience of working with this population is essential. It is part-time hours, 16 hours per week. It is initially offered as a fixed-term 12-month contract, but if successful, there is scope to become permanent.

You will join a team including a lead GP for CYP and a Lead ACP for Inequalities - with strong administrative support.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be working for all of the Practices within the Weymouth and Portland PCN - The Bridges Medical Centre, Cross Road Surgery, Wyke Regis & Lanehouse Medical Practice, Royal Manor Healthcare, Weymouth Bay Medical Practice.
• The overall aims of the role are to identify the inequalities in health care provision and access to GP services for children and young people in the Weymouth and Portland PCN.
• Plan and carry out practical interventions to reduce or remove barriers leading to an increase in access to health care in a variety of ways which could be unique and creative.

About us:

Two Harbours Healthcare is a not-for-profit organisation led by local General Practices in Weymouth and Portland. Our goal is to work more closely together (and with stakeholders) to share expertise, resources and provide services for the NHS.

Job responsibilities:

Job Purpose/ Role and Clinical and Managerial Responsibilities:

• An integral member of the PCN team.
• An integral member of the local CYP Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT).
• Represent and champion the health needs of local CYP.
• Contribute to the development of the role and new ways of working.
• Keep abreast of local and national data and policy pertaining to CYP and disseminate and action as appropriate.
• Work with CYP, carers, families and people who work with CYP to survey and understand barriers to accessing healthcare and needs, use this knowledge to shape services.
• Create links, lines of communications and working relationships with local relevant teams and services including but not exhaustive: child health immunisation team, health visitors, school nurses, schools, public health teams, youth services, GP practices, asylum seeker and refugee support teams, Libraries, Citizen advice, local family Hubs and foodbanks.
• Create and maintain ways and methods for GP practices to communicate with CYP which may be new and innovative and based on the CYP voice.
• Record and monitor the activities and impact of the role and share this information with the PCN board on a quarterly basis.
• Ensure effective planning and division of time to carry out various areas of work.

Key areas of Work:

• Lead a local network for GP practice CYP champions to support practices to ensure services are CYP friendly and meet need, to include but not exhaustive: appointment systems, information on practice websites and appropriate information such as consent and confidentiality, access to appointments and use of IT resources.
• On request audit GP practices care provision for CYP and provide advice for improvements.
• Work with care leavers support teams within social services to support information on access to general practice services being provided to young care leavers.
• Ensure GP practices provide any required reasonable adjustments for individual care leavers requiring additional support.
• Support individuals to access GP services as required.
• Provide information and links for young people and their carers with a Learning Disability on GP services and add to learning disability registers as required.
• Provide information and education on GP and other health services to young people close to turning 18 years of age.
• Work with local schools, colleges and youth services to provide health information and education sessions in schools to promote general health advice and how to access general practice services.
• Tailor the education sessions to suit the needs and ensure education on confidentiality and consent.
• Provide healthcare careers advice to local colleges for young people entering the workforce at careers fairs.
• Ensure ongoing and current practical skills, training and knowledge to deliver the UK childhood and adult vaccination programme including basic life support and anaphylaxis.
• Scrutinise local vaccination data to identify children without standing vaccinations who may benefit from reasonable adjustments and outreach provision.
• Build rapport with families and agree a flexible supportive approach to providing vaccinations which may include home visits and clinics in evenings or weekends.
• Support practices to provide vaccinations for children arriving from overseas with different and/or missing vaccinations.

Person Specification:

• Registered Nurse.
• Experience of working with children and young people.
• Experience of working in a Primary Care environment.
• Experience of working autonomously.

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.