Registered Nurse (Schools)

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job Overview

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to join our School Nursing Team within the Monmouthshire Borough.

This post is a permanent post, 22.5 hours per week, all year round to be based at Caldicot Health Centre.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join our forward thinking and dynamic School Nursing Team.

Our School Nursing service have an ethos of `compassion and innovation` with staff well-being, collaborative working, and positive outcomes for children and young people at the heart of our services.

This role is to support the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) to meet, `A School Nursing Framework for Wales` and to ensure the delivery of, Healthy Child (Wales) Programme, including the Child Measurement Programme, Vision Screening Programme and school age immunisations schedules within the allocated borough and Gwent wide as required.

You will need to have well developed communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and independently. Partnership working, both with parents and other agencies is highlighted as key to providing high quality services to children

Experience of working with children, or within immunisations / community experience is desirable. It is an advantage if the successful candidate has gained experience within a similar role, however, full training will be given. The successful candidates must be flexible to the needs of the service and able to meet the geographical needs of the role.

The ability to speak welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh applicants are equally welcome to apply for this post.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to deliver presentation to groups. Ability to work well as part of a team. Ability to communicate effectively to engage with children and young people. Good organisational skills. Good oral, written and IT skills. An understanding of the childhood immunisation programmes. Sound knowledge of changes within the NHS. Teaching Skills

Desirable criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh. Understanding of inter-agency working. An understanding of the principles of public health.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience at Band 5 level
• Evidence of working in the community. Evidence of working with school age children and/or experience of delivering routine immunisations. Interest in Health Promotion.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse With 1 of the following Qualifications
• RNA
• RNC
• RGN 1
• RSCN
• Child Branch Evidence of development of professional practice / Specialist Professional Qualification