Family Nurse (Waltham Forest FNP)

• The post holder will be responsible for

• The post holder will sit within the FNP

• Undertake specialist training in all elements

• Deliver the HCP and

• Develop and apply high level specialist skills

• Establish therapeutic relationships with

• Use high level interpersonal and communication

• Proactively identify, recruit and engage eligible pregnant young women and partners, prioritising those experiencing greatest vulnerability or barriers to positive outcomes.
• Independently manage a complex and diverse caseload, using highly developed specialist skills to prioritise need, assess risk, and support sustainable behavioural change.
• Deliver the FNP programme with fidelity, using specialist knowledge and programme materials to improve pregnancy outcomes, child development and parental life-course.
• Apply a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach, working therapeutically with all family members to strengthen relationships, reduce conflict, and promote safe, nurturing care.
• Undertake comprehensive specialist assessments, identifying risk, safeguarding concerns, and complex family dynamics, and co-produce intervention plans with clients.
• Act as lead professional when appropriate, coordinating multi-agency planning and integrated support for families with complex needs.
• Use specialist knowledge to strengthen partnership working, improve pathways, and reduce barriers to service access.
• Promote the service locally, facilitating client voice and lived experience to inform quality improvement and service development.

• Conduct home visits using highly developed specialist clinical skills, maintaining a clear focus on the safety and wellbeing of babies, children and young people in line with safeguarding procedures.
• Use highlevel interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, adapting communication to need, sometimes in highly charged or hostile situations.
• Apply strengthsbased, solutionfocused and motivational interviewing approaches to facilitate behaviour change.
• Maintain accurate, timely records and input programme data, analysing trends to inform practice, learning and service improvement.
• Work effectively in distressing or emotionally charged situations, maintaining professional boundaries and resilience.
• Develop and sustain therapeutic relationships requiring consistent concentration, reflection and emotionally complex situations.
• Use specialist judgement to analyse complex family situations and plan appropriate clinical interventions, referring to specialist services when required.
• Actively engage fathers, partners and wider family members to promote whole-family change.
• Contribute to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, undertaking professional assessments and completing KPI visits.
• Work independently within professional guidelines, escalates appropriately, and contribute to a positive learning culture within the team.
• Coordinate multiagency activity and act as a resource for information, advice and guidance for young parents, carers and professionals.
• Manage highly complex and highly sensitive information safely, preparing safeguarding reports and courtrelated information when required.
• Deescalate challenging or emotionally heightened situations, maintaining a calm, professional approach in diverse home and community settings.

• Demonstrate clinical leadership by modelling best practice and promoting the FNP programme across services and agencies.
• Provide leadership support during allocated periods, responding to operational queries and supporting lone-working colleagues.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies and service improvements to reduce inequalities for young parents.
• Deliver specialist training and workforce development sessions to multi-disciplinary colleagues, supporting reflective practice and shared learning.
• Champion co-production by involving clients in service improvement, review processes and recruitment.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders, including commissioners and local authority partners, and contribute to service evaluation, and quality improvement activities such as annual reviews and advisory boards.

• Maintain and develop specialist knowledge and highly developed specialist skills through mandatory FNP training, ongoing CPD, and reflective practice.
• Engage in regular reflective and analytical supervision to ensure safe, high-quality and evidence-informed practice, applying learning to complex clinical situations.
• Undertake accompanied home visits as part of quality assurance, clinical skill development and continuous improvement of specialist practice.
• Remain updated on emerging evidence, national policy developments and best practice in child health, trauma-informed care, perinatal health and adolescent/family work, applying this knowledge to complex family presentations.
• Actively participate in appraisal and personal development planning, identifying learning needs aligned with specialist role requirements, professional standards and organisational priorities.
• Actively engage in, and at times lead, team training and ongoing professional development activities, contributing specialist knowledge, modelling highly developed specialist skills, and supporting the development of colleagues to strengthen delivery of the FNP programme.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of high-quality clinical practice by supporting skills refreshers, clinical workshops and reflective team learning focused on improving outcomes for babies, children and families.

Essential

• Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate or role specific training, including mandatory FNP training, and to be assessed against required competencies following training and supervised practice.