School and Community Health Facilitator

Job overview

This post is offered on a fixed term basis to cover maternity leave. The hours are part time, 18 hours a week over 3 days to include a Tuesday, term time only.

Do you enjoy working with children? Would you like to work within a school nursing team? Does working 3 x days per week 9-3pm, term time only appeal to you? Then this job could be for you!!

We are recruiting to a part-time School and Community Health Facilitator role in Gloucester city to work 18 hours per week over 3 days in the school term time. You will work alongside the School Nursing team to

• deliver the National Child Measurement Programme and Vision Screening
• give advice and support to parents concerned about their child's weight, sleep patterns, anxiety and other health issues
• complete delegated packages of care

We offer:

• An Induction Programme, robust training and competency frameworks to underpin transition into role
• Clinical Supervision and Safeguarding Children Supervision to support learning and practice

This role offers diverse and rewarding opportunities for you to make a difference to children and family lives through advice, support and signposting using public health skills.

Job description

The successful candidate will work autonomously or as part of a team to provide screening programmes to children at primary schools in the Gloucester city locality to identify and address health needs in the local population. You will facilitate parent groups providing advice and support for health issues they are concerned about in their children. This may also include one to one work with families following a package of care.

Key responsibilities include

• organising and delivering National Child Measurement Programme and vision screening
• facilitating healthy lifestyles and parenting hubs including preparing resources and completing health records
• make every contact count by promoting healthy lifestyles at each contact
• deliver health promotion and education sessions for parents at school events
• keep accurate and contemporaneous child health records

You will report to a school nurse in the Gloucester team and at times report directly to the team leader.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job description and person specification for detail of the main responsibilities of this role.

About the organisation

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of delivering healthcare within the community setting
• Experience of working with school aged children.
• Experience of entering and extracting data from a clinical system

Desirable

• Experience of safeguarding children

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of role within the Public Health Team -School Nursing
• Ability to use different IT systems to record observations

Attributes

Essential

• Able to allay fears and anxieties in adults
• Confidence to run health promotion activities in a group setting and on an individual basis

Supporting documents

• School and Community Health Facilitator - Job description.pdf (PDF, 593 KB)