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Health Visitor & Children's Nurse

Employer
NHS Shetland
Location
Shetland
Salary
£30,401 - £44,688 per annum
Closing date
7 May 2019

Job Details

Health Visitor (Ref:  IRC20562)

Band 7 - Salary Range £37,570 - £44,688 per annum pro rata

Full-time & part time available up to 37.5 hours per week

Substantive

Relocation Assistance of up to £8000 available

Are you a Registered Health Visitor or Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) who would like the opportunity to work in a rural community and experience the unique challenges that come from our remote geographical location?

If so, this post could be for you. Based on the Shetland mainland, you will provide a Health Visiting service to families and children who are registered with the local Health Centres. You will also provide health visiting services to residents of more remote islands and this will involve travel by ferry or plane. You will work with families and children from birth up to school entry, encouraging and promoting health and healthy lifestyles in the widest sense through the refreshed Universal Health Visiting Core Programme. There will also be a commitment to work within the wider Health Visiting team to ensure that a comprehensive range of services are delivered to children and families throughout Shetland.  There is a strong history of joint working with other agencies in Shetland to the overall benefit of the child and family and Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) is the framework we utilise for this.

You will hold a valid car driving licence and have access to a car for use in this post.

Closing date: 7th May 2019            

Interview date: 27th June 2019

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Children’s Nurse (Ref: IRC20542)

Full-time, Substantive

Band 6 - Salary Range £30,401 - £38,046 per annum

Relocation Allowance of up to £8,000 also available

Are you a Registered Nurse (Child), with at least 2 years post qualification experience, who would like the opportunity to work in community and acute care, across the whole of Shetland and within the Gilbert Bain Hospital, with children and their families?

If so, this post could be for you. Based in the Child Health Department, you will provide nursing care to children and their families. You will work across the community and all wards (Medical, Surgical, Day Surgery and Accident and Emergency) to provide support for children with acute and chronic illnesses and complex needs, and their families. You will give advice and guidance to RN (adult) nurses on the wards to help them to provide care to children within their clinical area.  There is a strong history of joint working with other agencies in Shetland to the overall benefit of the child and family and Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) is the framework we utilise for this.

Closing date: 7th May 2019   

Interview date: 18th June 2019

Rise to the challenge and enjoy the opportunity - Shetland is a wonderful place to live and work.  Shetland offers low pollution, low crime, excellent schools, great leisure facilities, unique wildlife and amazing scenery, whilst still only a short flight away from the UK mainland.  To find out more about living and working in Shetland go to www.shetland.org

If you want to know more about this exciting and challenging post, please contact Clare Stiles, Team Leader (Child Health) on 01595 743397 or Kate Kenmure, Children and Families Service Manager on 01595 743009 for an informal discussion.

To apply visit the following e:ESS website link:- Click the apply button.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ONLINE APPLICATION SYSTEM IS DOWN FOR ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE BETWEEN THE DATES 25/04/2019 AND 8AM ON 30/04/19

In promoting equal opportunities, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Company

Shetland NHS Board is responsible for health care for a population of around 23,000. Local Hospital and Community Services are provided from the Gilbert Bain Hospital. In addition, visiting consultants from NHS Grampian provide out-patient clinics as well as in-patient and day-case surgery to supplement the service provided by our locally-based Consultants in General Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthetics and Psychiatry.

Company info
Website
Telephone
01595 743060
Location
NHS Shetland Board Headquarters
Upper Floor Montfield
Burgh Road
Lerwick
Shetland
ZE1 0LA
GB

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