About the role
Are you passionate about public health and working with vulnerable people from a minority ethnic group?
This is an opportunity to work with Cambridgeshire Traveller Health Team, other professional partners, individuals & families, and make a difference to public health outcomes for multiply disadvantaged individuals, families and communities within Cambridgeshire. To provide specialist nursing management and leadership to the Gypsy Traveller Health Team. The Gypsy Traveller Team is made up of part time workers delivering care and targeted support to the county’s Gypsies & Travellers. Our vision is to create strong partnerships across all sectors to ensure provision that addresses inequality and creates community cohesion within the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, local residents and businesses.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact:
Shaynie Larwood-Smith, email: Shaynie.Larwood@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or mobile: 07771 896424
or alternatively
Kate Parker, email: Kate.Parker@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or mobile: 07535 694729
Job Share and Secondment opportunities available on discussion.
The role will involve hybrid working, offices include, New Shire Hall Alconbury Weald, Noble House Ely etc. Preferred work base can be discussed at interview which are proposing to take place w/c 31st July.
What will you be doing?
The nurse lead will: manage the team’s caseload of highly complex multi disadvantaged clients, delegating care to other team members appropriately; deliver high quality health related cultural education to partners and colleagues locally, regionally and nationally; work closely with Adult Education to deliver high quality targeted adult education programme; act as Gypsy Traveller strategic lead for Public Health Directorate locally, regionally & nationally and improve health outcomes and reduce health inequity amongst Cambridgeshire’s Gypsy/Traveller community.
About you
You will be a registered nurse ideally with a post reg public health qualification.
Experience of community work with vulnerable and marginalised groups is essential as are strong leadership skills.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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