Healthy Weight Practitioner/Nurse

Band 5 – Full time.

Barnet Children and Young People’s service have an exciting opportunity for a nutritionist or nurse  to join their team.

Would you like to support the young people of Barnet ?

Are you motivated to reduce health inequalities in young people?

Then you are the right fit for Barnet

Main duties of the job

The nutritionist or nurse is responsible for supporting the delivery of the NCMP and supporting children and young people to develop a healthy lifestyle, follow up in schools and the local communities they will be working with individuals and groups.  The nutritionist/nurse will contribute to the development and delivery of targeted public health nutrition interventions as requested by local commissioners in the service specification; for example developing  group education programmes within clinics and schools.

You will need to be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, be able to work alone, with the drive and determination to lead on the delivery of high quality nutritional care for the children and young people of Barnet.

Our aim is to ensure the children and young people living in Barnet have every opportunity to achieve their full potential.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide one to one support to children and families identified as requiring healthy dietary and lifestyle advice.
• To write clear concise treatment plans with reviews carried out within expected timeframes.
• To be able to identify health needs and support appropriately or sign post.
• To deliver training sessions to other professionals on  health lifestyles
• Support schools, children and young people to develop a healthy lifestyle

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse or Nutritionist or Dietician ( with registration)
• Evidence of post registration training

Desirable criteria

• SCPHN School Nurse

Skills and ability

Essential criteria

• Evidence ability to deliver group and 121 sessions
• Demonstrate ability to work with young people and their families
• Experiences of working in a multi disciplinary team
• Demonstrate knowledge of digital platforms.
• Be able to work as part of a team and independently
• Ability to communicate effectively written and orally
• Awareness of equal opportunities and valuing diversity
• Ability to manage difficult conversation

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of current national guidance
• Ability to apply research to practice

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of planning and delivering health promotion activities. (2) (2)
• Knowledge of NCMP process
• Knowledge of health promotion linked to fitness
• Ability to set personal objectives and manage time, priorities and stressful situation

Desirable criteria

• Experience of NHS data collection

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols.   All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

1. Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview.  If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will  be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation