Nursery Nurse: Sponsorship Available

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Coombe Wood provides specialist perinatal inpatient and community services for mothers and their babies and has done so for over 50 years. The team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, nursery nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, art psychotherapist, family therapist, specialist midwife, specialist health visitor and support staff. We accept women in the third trimester of their pregnancy and mother with babies up to 12 months old. The post holder will work in the mother and baby unit and with opportunities in the future to work across the community perinatal teams. The ideal candidates will be a qualified nursery who has experience of working with children under 1 and their parents. The post holder should have a passion to deliver excellent child centred care and a desire to develop their skills in this specialist service. They will be able to demonstrate good interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills. A commitment to working within a multi-professional team is essential to the role. There are excellent opportunities and support available for you to develop both personally and professionally. Training on all aspects of maternal mental health, parent infant interaction, baby care & development is provided on site and through various specialist perinatal mental health organisations. Hence experience in perinatal mental health is not a prerequisite but a strong interest and motivation to learn on the job is required.

Main duties of the job

Band 4 nursery nurses work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 4 nursery nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

  • keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound nursery nurse assessment skills
  • ensuring the best possible outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
  • ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 4 nursery nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team by drawing support from more experienced nurses and other health professionals but also by supervising other staff and student nurses to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

About us

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 4 Nursery Nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Band 4 Nursery Nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

  • To have completed a recognised Nursery Nurse qualification: NNEB/CACHE
  • Diploma in Childcare and Education (DCE)
  • Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years
  • NVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education (NVQEYE) Or equivalent

Desirable

  • A basic understanding of mental illness and its treatment along with an interest to further learning in this area.
  • Current first aid certificate
  • Other relevant courses.

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a supervisory role within a Crche or Nursery setting
  • Experience of working with infants under 1 year
  • Knowledge of Safeguarding Legislation
  • Able to undertake administrative tasks

Desirable

  • Experience of working with Mothers and Infants in a mental health setting.
  • Insight into mental health difficulties related to child birth
  • Post qualification experience

Skills and knowledge

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Understanding of childcare and development. Up to date awareness of recent research and guidance on child development.
  • An understanding of legislation and national directives/policies relating to children
  • Well-developed knowledge of each individual’s responsibility in safeguarding infants.
  • Ability to plan, provide and participate in suitable actives for parents and children.
  • Ability to develop infant care plan
  • Ability to follow care plans and directions form the lead nursing nurse and nursing staf
  • Ability to maintain records and write accurate reports
  • Basic IT skills.
  • Ability to work a 37.5 hr week and be flexible within working pattern (working day and night shifts and be available to work 5 days out of 7 Monday-Sunday).
  • Ability to work as part of a team around parent and child.
  • Ability to be self directive and manage one’s time
  • Ability to use initiative, remain calm and controlled when under pressure

Desirable

  • Able to facilitate groups – Baby Massage / Baby Yoga/Sensory Play

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

  • Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
  • Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
  • Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
  • Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 02 October 2024

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