About our service

Barking and Dagenham Children and Families Health Service (Universal 0-19).

NELFT delivers the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with Barnardo's. The Healthy Child Programme is a health care programme that is offered to families/carers with children from antenatal to 19 years of age.

Broad areas of support and service delivery are:

• Health Visiting
• School Nursing
• Parenting Support
• Family Health/Health Promotion
• Resilience and Child Development
• Support for ages 0-19

Please see our website for further details www.nelft.nhs.uk

Community Nursery Nurse – Vacancy:

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced community nursery nurse to join our service.

Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Community Staff nurses, Clinical Support Workers, Community Nursery Nurses and Administrators.

Nursery Nurse role:

• To work with children, young people and their families, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. Delivered in family homes, clinics, family hubs and schools.
• To work in partnership with parents/carers providing advice and support on nutrition, development and keeping their children safe whilst to empower them and to enable them to achieve better health outcomes for their children.
• To work co-operatively with children's services, Education, health agencies and other community-based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
• Undertake developmental and health reviews of children and young people at key stages of their life. This will include health reviews for infants and young children and supporting the National height and weight measurement of school age children.
• To work within a fully integrated health team within Barking and Dagenham, being target focused on ensuring that the most vulnerable children can access our support.
• To work one to one with families within the family home and clinic setting.
• Community Nursery Nurses to work alongside local schools offering drop-in advice sessions.

Working in an integrated team to provide the following support:

• To be able to recognise safeguarding concerns, work with families to help improve health outcomes and to escalate them to managers where appropriate
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• To work in an empowering way to develop self-confidence, self-esteem and emotional wellbeing within families.
• To work autonomously whilst remaining part of the team.
• To work with community partners such as schools and family hubs in the delivery of local services within Barking and Dagenham.
• To work in line with both NELFT & Barnardo's policies & procedures
• To be able to focus and plan your own work, fitting in with the team allocation.
• To promote both NELFT & Barnardo's values

Full details of role and responsibilities are detailed within the Job Description attached.

 

Essential requirements for the role:

• Qualification mandatoryfor practice - NVQ Level 3/NNEB (Modules to have covered Child Development)
• Experience of working with children and young people within community/care settings
• Able to establish a rapport and build respectful, trusting, honest and supportive relationships
• Able to observe and recognise child, young person or family's behaviour, understand its context and respond to concerns about developmental or behavioural changes.

This role is based in Barking and Dagenham, the Community Nursery Nurse will be required to move around the borough as directed by Team Leaders.

Within Barnardo's the job title for this role is Project worker 1, this will appear on the job description.

When completing your application, please ensure that you complete with as much detail as possible and reference your experience to reflect the personal specification. Please also add your qualification/s.

For further details regarding this position please contact:

Children's Service Manager

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:22042
• Job Title:Project Worker 1 Community Nursery Nurse
• Location:Barking and Dagenham
• Locality:London
• Contract type:Permanent
• Hours:37
• Salary:£27,354.00 – £30,798.83 FTE
• Closing Date:21 November 2025
• Interview Date:Week commencing 8th December