Job overview

The Multi-disciplinary team within Dudley create a supportive environment for parents and carers, ensuring that they remain central to the Healthy Child Programme delivery process. 

We are seeking to offer an opportunity to education, social care or health practitioners who can demonstrate their abilities and expertise in working collaboratively with families and can confidently track a child’s development through thorough observations, reporting these back to both families and a range of professionals. Applicants should possess a solid understanding and practical experience of supporting young children with physical, health or developmental.

We are interested to hear from applicants who can work well as a part of a team, but can also work alone when necessary. You should have the ability to communicate with a variety of professionals. Be able to communicate information sensitively and effectively to parents and carers to build trusting relationships and provide support. The Community Nursery Nurse will have support through competency, education and career framework to support you in your development within this role.

The successful applicants will have experience of delivering education, social care or health services and like us will have a focus on listening to the voice of young children and their families.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment. 

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in the assessment, treatment and support of children with special needs and their families, providing a safe, stimulating environment in a variety of locations.
• In some areas of work, the post holder is required to work under the direction of, but unsupervised by professionals.  
• The post holder will work in a variety of locations – home, school, nurseries and family hubs.
• The post holder will work with children with a range of additional needs/learning disabilities.
• The post holder will need to adapt practices to meet individual patients’ circumstances e.g. cultural/linguistic practices.
• Providing feedback to the Health Visitor when concerns have been identified during contacts with families.
• Participating in the Healthy Child programme under direction of the Health Visitor.
• Supporting in the running of clinics, running targeted support groups, facilitating developmental reviews and growth monitoring as required.
• Independently carry out developmental reviews in the clinic or home setting: assessing cognitive and language development, hearing, vision fine and gross motor skills, emotional and social development.
• Providing appropriate health promotion, parenting advice and childcare advice to parents and carers when necessary.
• Referring to other agencies such as Speech and Language Therapists, Early support, Audiologist and other child development specialists.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Dudley and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.