Specialist Nurse Lead Gypsy Traveller Health Team

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.

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.

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