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The Family Nurse will:
1. Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model.
2. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
3. Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively.
4. Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional 
circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
5. Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments.
6. Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery.
7. Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
8. Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
9. Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
10.Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating CAF and taking lead professional role where required.
11.At all times keep the safety of the baby and the young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
12.Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
13.Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of children’s growth, development and language skills.
14.Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services.
15.Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP Lead where appropriate.
16.Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority.
17.Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme.
18.Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves.
19.Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
20.Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board.
21.Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery.
22.Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
23.Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance.
24.Be aware of, inform and abide by, provider service’s approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.