Family Nurse

We are looking to recruit a family nurse to join the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) team in Sunderland. This is an exciting, specialist post within the existing FNP team, which is part of the Growing Healthy Sunderland 0-19 service.

The post holder should have relevant experience of working with complex and vulnerable young parents and their babies.

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents’ economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. This role is responsible for delivering the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable, hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. Post holders will be required to develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family nurses will be expected to develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme. This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team.

Principle Responsibilities

• To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP
  
  

programme.

• 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

• improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,
  
  

complete their education, and find work.

• To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour
  
  

change and positive outcomes for children and families.

• 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/service.

• 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.

• 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 are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is

between one and two years old.

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.

• An inclusive and supportive culture our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference and Team of the Month Awards plus the Christmas Oscars.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
• Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Angela Ward Job title: FNP Supervisor Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07741 700 248