Community Staff Nurse School Nursing

We have a vacancy in Hillingdon for full time Band 5 community staff nurse in the School Nursing Service. The School Nursing Service is part of the 0-19 service in Hillingdon and recognised as delivering an innovative and progressive service. Hillingdon is a richly diverse outer London Borough, which brings challenges and rewards for practitioners. Hillingdon is an exciting, dynamic place to work with excellent partnership working with Schools, Children Centre's, Family Hubs and other agencies.

If you are enthusiastic and motivated about improving school nursing to ensure positive outcomes for children and young people we want to hear from you! You will hold a first level registration adult, mental health or child branch and if you are due to qualify shortly you are also welcome to apply.

You will have the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a skill mixed team. You will also be flexible, responsive and keen to modernise practice and influence health and Trust polices. You will have enhanced interpersonal skills to identify low protective factors and indicators of abuse and neglect, or anxiety and low confidence in young people at the earliest opportunity and through your skills, you will develop strength based plans of care to build resilience, promote positive wellbeing and improved health outcomes for young people.

No two days will be the same when working with young people; every day will have its challenges and successes.

We invest in our staff and are passionate about providing the best for service users and our teams. So to support you in providing excellent child and young person centered evidence based practice we offer clinical and safeguarding supervision and a commitment to your on-going professional development. We offer a comprehensive package including

• Preceptorship programme for all newly qualified staff
• Induction programme for all newly recruited staff
• Flexible working in line with our Work Life Balance policy
• Actively encourage staff development and career progression through partner Universities and our Learning & Development team
• Safeguarding supervision
• Clinical supervision
• MyTrust Benefits including; reduced rate membership of local leisure facilities and Child Care Voucher Schemes.