Family Nurse

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Family Nurse to join the Family Nurse Partnership team in Wakefield. This is an exciting, specialist post within the existing FNP team, which is part of the Wakefield 0-19 growing healthy 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.

Please see the Job description for more details.

Please note the successful candidate must be available to attend and complete residential training.

Main duties of the job

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 • improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education, and find work. 3. To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families. 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/service. 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 are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is between one and two years old.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about this position, please see the attached job description and person specification.