Band 5 School Nurse

# Band 5 School Nurse## Job Introduction
** Package Description
** 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
* ** AFC Pension and terms and conditions
*** Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
** Job Introduction
** 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, focusses 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.

We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community.

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.
** Main Responsibility
** As a
** School Nurse**, you’ll join a Healthy Family Team who are focused on clinical excellence. Your days will be rewarding and variedand 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 and is 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.
* As a School Nurse, 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 services 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 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…