Job description

Job responsibilities

The Service & Team:

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop and progress your career. Are you a newly qualified nurse interested in a preceptorship offer? We are offering an opportunity to join our Health Visitor teams as a Community Nurse.

We are integrated with our Early Help and Social Care colleagues and share an integrated electronic record which supports communication and co-ordination.

Working in Cornwall has the added advantage also of having some beautiful rural areas and beaches which provide plenty of leisure opportunities to create a great work life balance. There are exciting opportunities to be part of partnership working groups and multi-disciplinary practice discussions to contribute, progress and lead innovative practice and, enhance effective partnership working with education, GPs, Childrens Services, Public Health and other key agencies.

We currently have a variety of full and part time posts across Cornwall:

The Role:

The role of the Community Nurse is integral part of the Health Visiting team, supporting the delivery of a community public health nursing service.

You will take delegated work and be responsible for your own caseload, having a degree of autonomy over your diary and workload planning. You will be providing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the Healthy Child Programme

If you are interested in finding out more, please do not hesitate to contact:

Emma Louise Rogers (Team Manager) [email protected]

Alison Trebilcock (Team Manager) [email protected]

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

What youll need to succeed:

You should be a Registered Nurse with experience of working with children and families being desirable. You will be working in community settings and will hold a delegated caseload, therefore time management and prioritisation skills are essential. You should be able to work alone and in a team with an ability to maintain electronic records.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

We offer a supportive supervision framework where you will be supported with your clinical caseload management, safeguarding children supervision and clinical restorative supervision.

We offer an extensive training and development programme, including a preceptorship package for those of you who are newly qualified.

We have an excellent career pathway within our service. We are keen to support and develop our own staff wishing to develop over the pathway.

We support those interested in progressing to the Band 6 Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. We support our Community Nurses to achieve the appropriate CPD and experience to apply for the course, over a period of approximately 2 years dependant on your previous experience and transferrable knowledge and skills.

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. Find out more about working and volunteering for us.

Please confirm your NMC number on your application.

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