Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and relationship skills 

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with children, young people and their families as well as partner agencies including health, education and social care
• Deliver presentations to small groups of children, parents and other professionals
• Empower children and young people to actively participate in all areas of service delivery and ensure they are listened to
• Ensure all information about patients is treated confidentially and comply with policies on data protection, information sharing and governance
• Participate in team and other meetings as required     

 Knowledge, training and experience

• First level registered nurse – RN, RGN, RMN, RCN
• Knowledge of child development
• Knowledge of the healthy child programme
• Mentorship qualification   

 Analytical and judgement skills

• Plan  and implement packages of care in collaboration with school nurse based on assessment and needs of the child
• Work with the team to assess, implement and plan services
• Evaluate individual and community health care programmes in collaboration with the school nurse     

 Planning and organisational skills

• Plan and lead the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities
• Plan individual and community health care programmes.
• Manage caseload in association with lead school nurse
• Ensure statutory and mandatory training is up to date in line with organisational policy     

 Physical Skills

• IT skills – ability to use microsoft office apps and electronic patient records
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner

 Responsibility for client care

• To work alongside school nurses in planning, implementing and evaluating individual and community health care programmes
• To lead the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities
• To assess, implement and plan services with individual families, as appropriate to skills and experience
• To act as an infection control link/ resource to the team
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult protection guidelines and procedures
• Ensure effective communication with clients and colleagues
• To ensure the provision of a high-quality service that is led by client need and is evidence based
• Access clinical supervision as per organisational policy