Job description

Job responsibilities

The purpose of the job is to improve the health and wellbeing of those children and young people with SEND in North Tyneside. This includes support for families with children under the age of 5 and children and young people attending mainstream school. The Specialist Public Health Nurse will promote best practice across the service by offering specific advice, support, education and training to colleagues to ensure children, young people and their families are supported in a timely and effective way through up to date and evidence-based practice.

The Specialist Public Health Nurse will work directly with children and young people and their families who have more complex specialist needs, deploying the appropriate resources and working collaboratively with key partners to ensure they have access to appropriate services. The Specialist Public Health Nurse will shape service delivery to meet the needs of service users, to provide greater access and choice and to enhance service delivery whilst addressing health inequalities. The post holder would collate service user feedback to ensure the service is responsive to local community needs and includes the voice of the child.

The Specialist Public Health Nurse is responsible for developing and maintaining effective partnership working with local agencies and groups in the area, for example police, health services, early help, SEND support, childrens social care, schools and voluntary/community groups. Working directly with colleagues and partner agencies they will profile the health needsof this client group and inform service planning for children and families to ensure they achieve optimum health and wellbeing.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Registered SCPHN
• Assessor/supervisor experience

Desirable

• Qualification in leadership/ management/
• coaching/ mentoring

Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to provide advice,
• consultation, mentoring, supervision and
• appraisal support to professionally qualified
• and unqualified practitioners and those in
• training
• Application
• Form/
• Interview/
• Assessment
• Ability to work collaboratively with other
• professionals and agencies, including
• identifying and procuring relevant services
• to support children, young people and
• families.
• Experience of undertaking audit and quality
• assurance

Desirable

• Management experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North Tyneside Council

Address

Cobalt Business Park

Silverlink North

North Tyneside

NE27 0BY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)