Family Nurse

1.To recruit and engage eligible, hard to reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme 2.To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achieve the following; *improve the outcomes of pregnancy, *improve children's health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; and *to improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their educations, and find work 3.To be able to work therapeutically with a range of family members to achieve positive outcomes for children 4.To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner 5.Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity 6.To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and ready to exit the programme when the child is between one-two years old 7.To undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model, developing individualised programmes of care to enable clients and their families to establish goals and outcomes. 8.Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through FNP learning events and other study, together with reflections on high levels of practical experience, to effectively deliver the FNP programme 9.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 10.Be able to work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown 11.Be able to 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 12.Using the 'New Mum Star' as a framework, 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 13.To actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family 14.Able to apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations 15.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 Universal Help Assessments and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required 16.Acts 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.Contribute to the Child Health Promotion Programme, including professional assessments of children's growth, development and language skills 18.Positively and effectively represents the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services 19.Seek and respond to feedback from team colleagues and supervisor 20.Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines, referring to FNP supervisor where appropriate 21Visit clients over a wide geographical area, this may include following families to neighbouring boroughs to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme. 22.Adhere to local policies in regard to client confidentiality, safeguarding children, documentation etc., as agreed with employer 23.Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves 24.Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records including updating the FNP data system 25.To be aware of and abide by Trust approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives 26.Recruit, engage and retain families on the Family Nurse Partnership Programme and follow programme requirements 27.Effectively manage the emotional intensity of the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and client 28.Work within complex family circumstances, including situations of safeguarding children 29.Be able to learn and assimilate a large volume of highly complex new information in a very short space of time and have the necessary skills to quickly apply new knowledge and skills to the practical work environment 30.Maintain the interest and enthusiasm of the recruited families on the Family Nurse Partnership Programme over a one and a half to two-and-a-half-year period 31.Work with a structured programme whilst adapting to the requirements of each individual client and visit. Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.