Senior Physiotherapist

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards.

In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

A 6‑month secondment opportunity from November 2023 has arisen for an experienced Family Nurse to join the Hounslow team as Supervisor.

Hounslow FNP has been established for 11 years. The Supervisor is responsible for leading and managing the work of the family nurses and Quality Support Officer. This includes providing in‑depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for the quality of programme replication according to the licence, overseeing recruitment and engagement of hard‑to‑reach families, building local stakeholder relationships and facilitating continual learning and service improvement.

In addition, they will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.

Full supervisor training will be provided by the National Unit. The first of which is residential, and it is essential that the successful candidate can attend this in November 2023.

Please express your interest by writing 500 words on why you feel you should be considered for this post. All expressions of interest need to be received by 15/09/23
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• To manage a team of family nurses (FNs) and the site Quality Support Officer.
• To take responsibility for programme quality and adherence to the FNP licensing conditions.
• To facilitate continual learning and service improvement, planning for and ensuring a local learning programme for each FN, to meet their own identified learning needs and to facilitate the team based elements of the FNP learning programme.

For more detail please referee to the Job description and person specification attached.

• Nursing or Midwifery NMC registered
• Trained Family Nurse
• Degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Masters level education

• Working with deprived communities for more than 2 years
• Supervision of other practitioners
• Leading a team
• At least 2 years’ experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting.
• Managing others

• Experience of working with young people
• Project Management

• Knowledge of the research base for NFP and it's replication in the UK
• Parent / infant mental health
• Knowledge of Supervision models
• National and Local Safeguarding policies
• Knowledge of theories - attachment, self‑efficacy,human ecology and behavioural change
• The Children Act and Assessment Framework and recommendations of recent child protection reviews
• Principles of clinical governance

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust uses TRUSTID identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of key documents such as Passports, Driving Licences etc. It is a condition of appointment that all prospective employees of HRCH have their original documents verified using this TRUSTID.

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be occasions where we have to close a vacancy once a sufficient amount of applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible.

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