Main area Nursing and midwifery Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (9-5pm) Job ref 844-8247212
Employer Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Eagle Bridge Health and Care Centre Town Crewe Salary £49,387 - £56,515 none Salary period Yearly Closing 24/11/2026 23:59
Band 7
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?
We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.
We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people’s services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.
We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.
Main duties of the job
The Enhancing Families team aims to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents’ resilience in families with additional vulnerabilities.
Each family is allocated a specialist nurse who takes on the role of a health visitor and works alongside parents to support a healthy pregnancy and child development, as well as supporting parents to achieve their own aspirations.
The aim is to deliver the inclusive and flexible Enhancing Families parenting pathway, and nurses will develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work with vulnerable families initially engaging them in the antenatal period to achieve identified outcomes
The Enhancing Families Nurse will carry a universal partnership plus caseload, ensuring health needs are assessed, identified and supported.
They will work as part of the wider system to contribute to multi-agency working to ensure a Cheshire East wide collaborative approach to care.
This is a demanding role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team. Role to include data collection and analysis and regular caseload oversight and support will be led by the Enhanced Lead for Cheshire East.
Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:
- 0-19 / 0-19+ and 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Services
- Community Nursing
- Sexual Health Wirral
- Community Cardiology
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Teletriage
- Community Dental
- Social Care
- End of Life Care
As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role in Cheshire East 0-19+ service
Person specification
Qualifications and professonal training
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Experience and knowledge
- At least 2 experience years of working with families in deprived communities
- At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, home visiting
- Working with children and families
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- National and local safeguarding policie
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
- Behavioural change theory
- Attachment theory
Skills and attributes
- Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
- Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
- Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
- Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
- Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
- Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
- Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision
- Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
- Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
- Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups
- Able to analyse numerical data
- Motivational interviewing and counselling
- Tenacious and persistent
- Resilient
- Empathic and non judgemental
- Warmth and flexibility
- Self awareness
- Able to travel independently
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.
For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.
We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer.WCHC is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of disability, age, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or transgender status. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as aVeteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme . We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Further Information:
Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.
Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.
Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made. For all part-time positions, salaries are pro-rata.
Restricted Applications: Staff on the Trust's Redeployment Register will be given priority access to vacancies at their substantive band.
Flexible Working: Flexible working is very important to the Trust in both the provision of this to staff and also in staff supporting the provision of our services.
A.I. Tools: Please note, the selection processes at Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn`t accurately reflect their skills.
English Language: In order to comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, we are required to ensure that all employees possess "the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English.” If you have not studied at an English speaking institute, or do not possess an English language qualification, you should provide evidence in your application of how you meet this requirement.
Student Visas: Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Information: The cost of submitting and processing the DBS application for successful applicants will be met by the individual.For substantive employees, the DBS costs are recovered through salary deductions following commencement in post in 3 equal instalments.
For bank workers and individuals appointed to honorary positions that require a DBS check, the cost must be paid in advance via the Trusts payment link before a start date can be confirmed.
Please note that DBS fees and any associated administration charges are subject to periodic review and may change from time to time.
The cost of the DBS check would vary depending on the level required for the role:
The Trust would encourage all post holders who require a DBS for their role to registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at DBS Update Service - GOV.UK
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to discharging its statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults and will support staff to fulfil this duty.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Rachel Shoukair Job title FNP and Enhancing Families Lead Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07979927143 Additional information You can contact Rachel Shoukair-FNP and Enhancing Families lead tel 07979927143, [email protected]
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