Family Nurse

Company: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

Overview

We are recruiting a motivated nurse to join the existing team delivering Family Nurse Partnership in Hampshire. FNP is a national evidence-based programme that aims to improve the health and social outcomes for young expectant mothers and their babies from early pregnancy until their child is at least a year old. The programme must be delivered in accordance with the licence which requires faithful replication of all its core model elements and a high regard for quality.

Responsibilities

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. Post holders 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 develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work intensively within complex family situations to achieve the expected outcomes of the programme.

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

To use 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
  • improve parental life‑course by helping parents plan future pregnancies, complete their educations, and find work

To be able to work therapeutically with a range of family members to achieve positive outcomes for children.

The successful candidate will need to attend a residential training course in November 2026.

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Posted: May 28th, 2026