Family NurseNHS

Job summary

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a licensed programme being delivered in a number of sites in England. The aim of the programme is to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged young families and children and prevent social exclusion.

Main duties of the job

This role is responsible for delivering the Family Nurse Partnership intensive home visiting programme to vulnerable 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.

Job description

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.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence