Job at a glance
As a Band 5 School Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits. These include a Band 5 Agenda for Change salary, NHS pension and terms and conditions, free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location, and membership of My Reward Hub. You'll have access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping and cashback offers, as well as online and face to face support for your mental and physical wellbeing.
Additionally, you'll have access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development. You'll join the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, focusing on ensuring that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life by meeting the identified needs of children, young people, and their families. As a School Nurse, you'll join a Healthy Family Team focused on clinical excellence, offering support to children and families, empowering them to reach their full potential and providing leadership by demonstrating excellent standards of care., 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 lifes 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 youre 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 ringfenced 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 Barnardos 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. Our services are offered across Essex from the Antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 or 25 for those with Special Educational Needs. We are located within the community delivering outcome based support to families within their homes, schools or at one of our Family Hubs and Delivery Sites.
We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community. www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk As a School Nurse within the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service youll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and who recently received a Good CQC rating. Main Responsibility As a School Nurse, youll 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