Job summary
Are you ready for an amazing opportunity? Do you want to make a difference to children, young people and families in Cornwall. We are very excited to announce that we have 2 additional Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Student School Nurse training posts available for application starting in September 2024. This is a fantastic opportunity for a fully funded training programme to qualify as a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in School Nursing. Open to all qualified Nurses and Midwives registered with the NMC. We provide supportive placements with allocated practice teachers and supervisors to support your learning journey.
Main duties of the job
We deliver our joint health visiting and school nursing service across 6 Localities within the beautiful County of Cornwall. We work from the border with Devon covering areas such as Bude, Launceston, Liskeard down as far as Helston and Penzance.
About us
Most teams are based together with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues, and we all record on the same electronic record which really helps communication and coordination. We provide an evidence based, family centre public health service, which focuses on identifying health needs and vulnerability within the family and community.
This is a great opportunity to join our innovative and collaborative service to meet the needs of our local communities and to ensure there are improved outcomes for all our children and young people in the beautiful county of Cornwall and IOS.
The course embraces a family/child/workplace-centred public health role with individuals, families, and populations, and focuses on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, to network and develop services in partnership with service users, other professionals, and the voluntary sector. You'll learn to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective, and efficient management of that provision.
Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) - Postgraduate Diploma - UWE Bristol: Courses
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Role:
This is a full-time fixed term post with a salary of £,30,639. Please note that this is a training contract starting the beginning of September 2024. For internal candidates, this is a secondment post for one year and for external candidates, you will be given a fixed term contract by Cornwall Council to undertake a one-year full-time course to complete the Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) in School Nursing at University West of England (UWE). Please note that this will involve travel to UWE in Bristol and some overnight stays. The course combines taught modules at UWE and clinical placements in Cornwall. Successful completion of the course will lead to registration on Part 3 of the NMC register, an NMC recordable qualification so you will be eligible to apply for a SCPHN SN vacancy post within Cornwall Council. Seconded Students will return to their previous role if there are no vacancies or unsuccessful at interview.
If you need more information, please dont hesitate to contact
School Nursing:Lisa Norwood [email protected]
What youll need to succeed:
A qualified NMC registered children/adult/learning disability/mental health nurse or midwife with post qualification experience working with children and families and a keen interest in the wider determinants of health to tackle public health needs
A reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who makes good use of supervision and support who has a real interest in addressing the health needs of children, young people and their families
Someone who is able to address challenging and sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way with the ability to be innovative and adaptive to meet the needs of the children, young people and families on our caseloads
Applicants must have a live registration on either the first or second part of the NMC register and be able to demonstrate a classified honours degree at 2:2 or above either in nursing or midwifery or a diploma with evidence of recent academic study preferably at Masters level as the course is a level 7 academic programme
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What youll get in return:
Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
- a competitive salary.
- a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
- a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
The full role profile is attachedhere
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contactLisa Norwood [email protected]
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please [email protected] you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year.Find out more about working and volunteering for us.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be foundhere -flexible working options.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, youngpeopleand adults at risk.Itsa vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please refer to attached role profile.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Cornwall Council
Address
New County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
Cornwall
TR1 3AY