Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Specialist Practitioner (PPT) 

How do we sum up Barnsley Council? Well, we’re a double award-winning, high-performing council with a growing economy, a thriving town centre and some truly impressive outcomes in our communities. This is why we’ve been awarded Council of the Year for 2023 by the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) and The Municipal Journal (MJ). 

Our excellent Public Health services have been a key part of our win; we’re so proud of what we’ve achieved not just for the council but for our partners and Barnsley. 

We’re impressed. Are you? It’s the perfect time to join our excellent team. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious, innovative, energetic, friendly, and high achieving 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS). We know that our greatest asset is our employees, which is why for successful candidates we will recognise your NHS continuous service for the purposes of annual leave and sickness absence, and you can continue to access the NHS Pension Scheme if you are an existing scheme member.  

We would like to invite enthusiastic and highly motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to be part of the Partnership Protection Team (PPT). The PPT support children who are subject to child protection plans, contributing and supporting multi-agency decision making. This is an exciting opportunity a practitioner who is passionate about supporting our most vulnerable and disadvantaged children’s young people and families.  

About the post 

We are looking for an experienced SCPHN Health Visitor or School Nurse with substantial understanding of the complexities of working with vulnerable families and the impact of abuse and neglect. The postholder will provide evidence based public health nursing practice that promotes and improves health and addresses inequalities of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people, and families within the borough. You will lead the delivery of the healthy child programme to improve health and wellbeing of children in need, providing SCPHN expertise to develop and implement structured interventions for children and families with complex needs who are subject to safeguarding plans. The postholder will attend strategy meetings, Initial case conferences, review conferences, core group and child in need meetings, delegating as necessary workload to skill mix members within teams as appropriate. 

In the role as SCPHN Specialist Practitioner, you will need, 

Significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable children and families and can demonstrate extensive experience of managing care for safeguarding and complex cases. You will have substantial experience of working collaboratively with other agencies. Be able to contribute from a health perspective and share appropriate information at multi-agency meetings possessing the ability to positively challenge decision making and articulate rationale effectively. You will confidently lead on complex child protection plans, child in need and looked after children and have the skills and knowledge to direct support and supervise other team members. You will be required to produce high quality reports and be able to confidentially challenge multi-agency decision making where necessary.  

Why is it great to work in Barnsley. 

Barnsley is a place of possibilities. Our Barnsley 2030 Strategy details how we will work together to make Barnsley the best place it can be. This is an exciting time to join us, and the team has strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, making our work more effective in meeting the needs of our population and tackling health inequalities.  

Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. Our 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service is rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC. As part of our team, you can be sure we’ll do all we can to support you in being truly excellent. We offer a full induction programme, and excellent training packages to enable you to have the right skills to do your job, including regular supervision to help you recognise your continued professional development needs and support you to achieve your potential.   

We offer working conditions that are flexible and agile that support good life work balance. By working together, with each other and with our communities, we can take pride in improving lives. There is so much happening in our thriving Borough and your talent and skills will help make Barnsley a place of possibilities.   

We would encourage interested applicants to contact Sharon Hine on 07720031555 or email SharonHine@Barnsley.gov.uk or alternatively contact Karen Clayton on 07720031502 or email KarenClayton2@Barnsley.gov.uk

For further information please visit: https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/services/jobs/0-19-public-health-nursing-service-roles/ 

 Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.

 Job Profile: Job Profile.PDF

 Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure Profile.pdf