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*Brand new Early Help Specialist School Nurse* 

We have created an exciting new specialist role in the School Nursing Service in Gloucestershire, providing an opportunity for us to develop partnership working to ensure children get the help and support they need early on to enable them to thrive and develop.  The role will evolve according to health need of targeted populations staring with helping children become ready for school.  Using strong leadership skills in our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service, the post holder will form robust working relationships with partners, develop new pathways and interventions and demonstrate impact and outcomes for children and families.  

The post holder will be based in Tewkesbury and the specialist work will be developed along side a caseload that will be allocated from the Tewkesbury School Nurse team.  It is expected that the role will be a 40:60 split between Specialist role : Clinical caseload work.

*Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge?

*Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people early on to improve their health outcomes?

Then this job is for you!!

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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We can offer:

Diverse work leading a skill-mixed team developed through robust competency frameworks

Induction and Preceptorship programmes to underpin transition into role

Clinical Supervision, Safeguarding Supervision and Restorative Supervision is available to support professional practice and development.

Health and wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues is important.  Working for our NHS Foundation Trust offers many staff benefits and the School Nursing Service supports the mental and emotional wellbeing of all our colleagues. 

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

 This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.