Wiltshire has a well-established Family Nurse Partnership service which has been supporting young first-time parents for the last 10 years, helping them and their children to have the best start in life. The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a preventative programme offered to first-time mothers aged 19 years and less than 28 weeks pregnant. Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is a national evidence-based, intensive home visiting programme delivered by Family Nurses who are trained to use a trauma informed approach to develop therapeutic relationships with young clients and their children. The programme is voluntary and offers a personalised , flexible client centred approach.We are looking for a new FNP Supervisor to lead and manage the work of the Family Nurses in our well established FNP team as well to continue to drive delivery of improved outcomes for first time young families in Wiltshire. The postholder will provide in-depth clinical and safeguarding supervision to the family nurses, maintaining the integrity of the programme, taking responsibility for the quality of programme replication according to the licence, overseeing recruitment and engagement of families, building local stakeholder relationships, and facilitating continual learning and service improvement.The postholder will provide system leadership, driving and supporting innovative approaches to service delivery, and build on the opportunities of working closely with the Public Health Nurse led service and the Wiltshire family hubs. In addition, they will also hold a small caseload of families to whom they deliver the programme.The successful candidate will be able to balance clinical practice with a team manager/ supervisory role, which requires a diverse set of skills and attributes as well as commitment to the ethos and principles of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme.For more information about the role or an informal discussion please contact Jude Sellers, Head of Operations, Children and Young People by email at Judith.Sellers@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 0797751960.Package DescriptionAs a Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Supervisor, you’ll be part of our valued team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 8a salary of £53,755 - £60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditionsMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionMain ResponsibilitiesMain responsibilities: Managing a team of family nurses (FNs) and the site Quality Support Officer. Taking responsibility for programme quality and adherence to the FNP licensing conditions. For facilitating continual learning and service improvement, planning for and ensuring a local learning programme for each FN, to meet their own identified learning needs and to facilitate the team-based elements of the FNP learning programme. Using programme materials and methods in the clients’ homes in order to achieve the following: a) improve the outcomes of pregnancy; b) improve children’s health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive, responsive and competent care of them; and c) improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work. Providing regular in-depth individual reflective and analytical supervision for the family nurses to ensure high standards of practice and safe delivery of the programme. Supporting a robust local system for supporting safeguarding within FNP with the safeguarding named nurses and the FNP lead, taking responsibility for safeguarding supervision of family nurses in partnership with named nurse/safeguarding team. Working with others to ensure engagement of local stakeholders and to ensure an effective pathway for identification of eligible pregnant young women who can be offered the programme. Building local relationships with health, social care, community and children’s and young people’s services to promote understanding of FNP and to mobilise resources for FNP clients. Oversee and manage the recruitment and engagement of eligible hard to reach pregnant young women. Working with the FNP leads to ensure that local systems adjust to accommodate FNP and to build sustainability plans and capacities for the programme.For a full list of role responsibilities and requirements please see attached job description in full.The Ideal CandidateThe essentials required for this role:Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC Degree level or equivalent professional qualification Masters level education Highly developed communication skills Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches and have some knowledge of the research base of FNP Have knowledge of Parent/infant mental health Have experience of delivering supervision and different supervision models and team effectiveness strategies Have experience leading and managing a team/others Have at least 2 years’ experience of working with families in deprived communities and at least 2 years’ experience of midwifery, child health, public health, home visiting Have a developed understanding of National and local safeguarding policies, The Children Act and Assessment Framework, Working Together to Safeguard Children and recommendations of recent child protection reviews Able to support others to work within safeguarding policies and procedures Have a developed understanding of the principles of clinical governance Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversationsAble to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships Able to challenge colleagues’ views and attitudes when necessary Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents and have experience of motivational Interviewing Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectivelyAble to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writingAbout The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK\'s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We\'re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website\'s privacy policy.
