Band 4 Healthy Child Programme Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; Leicester; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust as a Healthy Child Programme Practitioner, supporting young children and their families. This role involves delivering essential health services, conducting development reviews, and providing evidence-based advice to parents. The position offers flexible working hours and a supportive training environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification in childcare is essential.
• Experience working with young children and families is preferred.
• Full driving license with access to a vehicle for business use is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with children from birth to school age as part of a clinical team.
• Deliver The Healthy Child Programme in various community settings.
• Advise parents on child development and parenting skills.

Skills

Child development knowledge

Positive parenting skills

Attention to detail

Initiative

Education

NNEB, Diploma in Childcare and Education (CACHE), or NVQ Child Care Level 3

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21.05.2025

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05.07.2025

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Job Overview

Do you love working with young children and their families? Are you passionate about offering compassionate and practical support to give children a better start in life? Then come and join us as a Healthy Child Programme Practitioner in Leicestershire & Rutland Health Visiting teams. Please note that County Hall is the interview venue only , we have vacancies across the county predominately in Blaby, North West Leicestershire and Market Harborough.

We provide a Monday-Friday service excluding bank holidays and consider requests for flexible working affording you a better work life balance. Hours to be negotiated at interview , however 22.5 hours per week is a minimum . You will be well supported, nurtured and offered bespoke training for this role, working within a multidisciplinary team with exposure to new ideas and ways of working.

If you have a suitable qualification such as NNEB, Diploma in Childcare and Education (CACHE) or NVQ Child Care Level 3 and are innovative, tenacious, and have a range of experience working with children and their families we'd love to hear from you. Please see link below to check you have the relevant qualification.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-qualifications-achieved-in-england

A full driving license with access to a vehicle with insurance for business use is essential. LPT operate 2 car schemes, Car Leasing and Car Salary sacrifice subject to meeting the acceptance criteria. If you already hold an NHS lease, this may be transferrable to LPT.

Please be aware that these roles are always popular so we may close the advert early when we have enough applications. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 16th & 20th June 2025 at Leicestershire County Hall, Room 100/110 Pen Lloyd Building, Leicester road, Glenfield, LE3 8RA.

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

• You will work as an integral part of the clinical team working with children from birth to school age. You will participate in the delivery of The Healthy Child Programme and be expected to work in various community settings including the family homes.
• You will get involved in delivering universal 10-12 month and 2-2.5 year development reviews, so a sound knowledge of child development will be crucial.
• You will advise parents on a wide range of issues including positive parenting skills, helping parents understand and support their child's behaviour; weaning and nutrition; play and stimulation; speech and language development; sleep management and toilet training; ensuring that advice is evidence based to facilitate school readiness.
• You will need to be someone who can use your initiative and be attentive to detail. You should be able to work autonomously, but also be part of a team.
• Your development in this role will be supported through a package of training including healthy growth; breastfeeding; healthy bladder/healthy bowel; hearing awareness; immunisations; minor ailments; Solihull; SEND and safeguarding as well as specific training delivered by colleagues in speech therapy, physiotherapy, dietetics. It may also lead to the opportunity to apply for an apprenticeship to further your career.

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.