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Job overview

The primary role of the Community Nursery Nurse is to deliver elements of the Healthy Child programme (2009) including the 6 High Impact Areas as delegated by Health Visitors. The Community Nursery Nurse should ensure that the quality of service delivered is aligned with the commissioned requirements of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 years and the organisation’s vision & values. This includes working in partnership with internal & external agencies and organisations.

Main duties of the job

To work within a Health Visiting Team to deliver delegated components of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP), (DH 2009), monitoring quality and compliance and reporting risks by exception to the Clinical Team Leader.

To contribute to the delivery of the HCP and 6 High Impact areas below, including working in hubs and delivering health promotion.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor.  Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal. 

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

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

•    89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
•    73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
•    82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
•    76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.