Community Staff Nurse

Job overview
Community Staff Nurse 0-19 Universal Children’s Services
A Band 5 vacancy for a Registered Nurse/Children's Nurse to work as a Community Staff Nurse within Thurrock and join the Healthy Families
service working alongside the Health Visiting and School Health teams, with the opportunity to apply for the specialist community public health
nursing course in health visiting or school nursing.
Do you want to develop in a progressive, innovative environment, and enhance your career? If so we want you to join Thurrock Healthy Families
service team and find out all about the possibilities that can be opened up for you.
We have a very innovative Team in Thurrock and we have developed a very robust partnership working across the Children's services to ensure
we deliver the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme and quality healthcare services to improve the health and well-being within the diverse community
which we serve.
Our vision for delivering the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with key stakeholders is to ensure that every child in Thurrock has the very
best start in life and grow up to be happy, safe, healthy, confident and resilient.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a Registered Nurse/children's Nurse; have proven experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
with a positive attitude towards actively engaging difficult to reach client populations. You will have experience of working closely with families and
an understanding of the whole family approach to care.
If you are interested in working for us, have good clinical and leadership skills, excellent motivational skills as well as an understanding of key
policies relating to children; if you are a forward thinking individual with the ability to work within a team and on your own initiative we want to hear
from you.
In return for your commitment, we can offer you strong professional leadership and support. We offer a robust continuous professional
development plan opening a gateway for further career progression. There is a robust system of managerial, clinical and safeguarding supervision
in place to support all staff.
If you are interested in working for us, and can demonstrate that you are a forward thinking individual, working in a solution focused way with the
ability to work within a team and on your own initiative we want to hear from you.

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement – Fringe (Basildon, Thurrock, Brentwood, Harlow and Dartford only)
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,303 to a maximum of £2,198 p.a. pro rata for part time)