Job Description

Are you an experienced family nurse, registered nurse or midwife with significant experience of working in the community with vulnerable and complex families?



We are offering a variety of full and part-time vacancies to be part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Family Nurse Partnership team!



We are looking for someone who is passionate about working alongside young parents to deliver this carefully designed programme, offering young parents a chance to transform their own life chances and those of their babies.



If you're passionate about working with young parents, are warm, reflective, flexible and motivated to work in a strength-based way to achieve the intended outcomes of the FNP programme, we would like to hear from you.



You must hold a first-level Degree and have significant community nursing/midwifery experience. You need to have knowledge of the current public health agenda, in particular the Healthy Child Programme, possess excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.



Safeguarding Children is a fundamental role of this post and you will have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding children, and meet the requirements of the person specification.



Successful applicants must be able to attend mandatory, residential training throughout the coming year at Yarnfield Conference Centre (first training session 14th-18th July 2025)



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 parent's economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged young families. FNP is part of a wider Young Parent Pathway, and mentorship, training and supervision of others is an integral part of the Family Nurse role.



The 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. The post holder 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 work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.



As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.



Peterborough & Cambridgeshire is a large county and travel around the county is an expectation of this role.



Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of the service users. Currently Children & Young People's Services cover core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon-Fri. Service core hours may be changed in response to service user needs.



Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.



There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.



If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.



This is a demanding specialist role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of, and across teams. As a Family Nurse there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Children & Young People's Health Services.



To recruit and engage eligible, hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.



To use the 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; and



Improve parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their education and find work.



To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.



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.



To participate in 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 implemented with fidelity.



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 two years old.



To be part of a 0-19 team, working within a locality leadership team to support Cambridgeshire Children & Young People's Health Service delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to the highest possible standard.



PROFESSIONAL



Undertake home visits in accordance with FNP model



Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies



Utilise specialist knowledge acquired through the FNP learning programme, events and other study, together with reflections on experience, to deliver the FNP programme effectively



Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown



Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention and concentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in the family home and other environments



Use the six FNP domains as a framework for programme delivery



Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations in order to develop appropriate clinical interventions



Actively engage and work with fathers and other members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children



Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family solutions



Work within the FNP model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating FSP and taking lead professional role where required



At all times keep the safety of the baby and young person in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate



Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting



Able to refer client onto other specialist services as required on own authority



Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), including professional assessments of children's growth and language skills



Positively and effectively represent the vision and principles of the FNP programme in actions and communications to internal and external clients, stakeholders and services



Manage own workload by working independently within appropriate occupational guidelines referring to FNP lead where appropriate



Visit clients over a wide geographical area and within flexible working hours, this may include following families to neighbouring local authorities to enable them to continue to benefit from the programme



Propose changes to working practices or procedures for own work area as role evolves



Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records



Create regular reports on local site replication performance for the programme board



Analyse reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness and accuracy, as well as improvements in programme delivery



Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures



Develop local procedures for FNP, taking into account FNP National Unit guidance



Be aware of, inform and act as a credible role model in line with CCS objectives, approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives



ADMINISTRATIVE



Provide timely and accurate data to monitor the programme fidelity and for research purposes



Maintain own caseload files and have good keyboard skills



Input FNP data into TURAS database and produce individual reports relating to own caseload to monitor programme fidelity



Use computer software to create reports for other professionals and safeguarding meetings as required



Utilise FNP resources to plan for visits and develop packages of materials for these



TEAM

Participate fully in:

team activities, collaborating with others to achieve team goals and quality improvement measures



Participate in quality improvement efforts with colleagues



Audit own performance and participate in performance review with supervisor



Elicit and consider differing viewpoints when analysing complex issues



Recognise the accomplishments of team colleagues



Support a safe environment for open discussion



Prioritise work; manage time effectively by utilising individual skills, knowledge and competencies



Provide mentoring for new team members, advice, supervision, training and expertise to colleagues and to team Quality Support Officer as required



Mentor Young Parent Nursery Nurses to ensure the highest quality care is offered to young parents in Cambridgeshire



PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT



Assess own learning needs and agree strategies to meet them with the supervisor



Actively engage in skill building to meet all competency requirements



Successfully complete the learning programme required to deliver the FNP programme, including team based and face to face elements.



Undertake additional professional development as required



Prepare for and actively engage in weekly individual supervision



Undertake joint visits with supervisor every four months



Attend and participate in two-weekly case discussions and staff meetings



Keep informed of current healthcare and parenting developments to provide high quality home visiting services



CLINICAL GOVERNANCE/QUALITY



Maintain professional registration and portfolio in line with NMC requirements



Participate in individual clinical/safeguarding and preceptorship, mentorship with the team



Support and facilitate the training and development of other team members who needs to improve service delivery



MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THE ROLE



Recruiting, engaging and retaining families on the FNP programme and following programme requirements



Effectively managing and emotional intensity of the therapeutic relationship between the practitioner and client



Working within complex family circumstances, including situations of safeguarding children



Being able to learn and assimilate a large volume of highly complex new information in a very short space of time and having the necessary skills to quickly apply new knowledge and skills to the practical work environment



Maintain the interest and enthusiasm of the recruited families on the FNP Programme over a two and half a year period



Working with a structured programme whilst adapting to the requirement of each individual client and visit