Band 6 Health Visitor

HCRG Care Group; Slough; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub

Early wage access

Wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Slough Child and Family Wellbeing Services is recruiting a Health Visitor to lead and deliver high‑quality proactive care under the Healthy Child Programme. You will work within a supportive team with strong leadership visibility and a clear development pathway, including potential progression into senior Band roles.

We offer a structured development pathway, NHS Pension, and access to wellbeing and career coaching as part of our comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) qualification required.
• Current NMC registration (third part of the register).
• Experience leading health visiting teams and delivering the Healthy Child Programme.

Responsibilities

• Act as public health lead for the health visiting team.
• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme and assess health needs.
• Delegate to the wider team to achieve outcomes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with families and stakeholders.
• Provide holistic care supporting wellbeing of children and families.
• Signpost and refer to partner agencies.
• Contribute to multi‑agency assessments and safeguarding.
• Co‑manage a caseload within a team.

Skills

SCPHN qualification

Leadership in health visiting

Public health awareness

NMC registration

Policy & governance understanding

Education

SCPHN qualification

Job description

Are you looking for a Health Visitor role that offers real variety, strong team support, and clear opportunities for development? At Slough Child and Family Wellbeing Services, you’ll be part of a supportive and forward‑thinking team, with access to a structured development pathway including the opportunity to become a dual‑qualified SCPHN Nurse – and potential progression into strategic Band 7 and 8 roles. Our service offers a unique working environment where senior leaders, including our Managing Director, are highly visible and actively engaged. You’ll feel genuinely heard, with the opportunity to share your ideas and shape the way we work. As a Health Visitor (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse), you’ll lead and deliver high‑quality, proactive care in line with the Healthy Child Programme. Our mission is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children, and improve outcomes by working for the community, with the community.

Package Description

As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you will be part of our valued team in our Slough Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities

As a Health Visitor, you will:

• Act as the public health lead for the health visiting skill‑mix team within a defined population or locality area
• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme by assessing health needs, implementing targeted or specialist interventions, and delegating effectively to the wider skill‑mix team in an outcomes‑focused manner
• Take responsibility for the outcomes of children on a specialist caseload, working in close collaboration with key partners to address identified public health needs
• Develop and maintain strong, professional relationships with families and key stakeholders, fostering effective partnership working
• Provide holistic care that supports the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and families—particularly those on child protection plans—through multi‑agency collaboration
• Promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, providing advice, signposting, and making referrals to partner agencies when appropriate
• Contribute to multi‑agency assessments of children and families, taking on the lead professional role where appropriate
• Co‑manage a caseload as part of a team of Health Visitors, working autonomously and taking full responsibility for the assessment, intervention, and outcomes of your allocated families
• Apply a clear understanding of clinical governance and safeguarding principles to identify, assess, and support vulnerable children and families, ensuring their safety and protection

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) qualification
• Current NMC registration (third part of the register)
• Proven experience in leading and working within health visiting teams
• A strong track record in delivering interventions that improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
• A recognised qualification in supervising or assessing student nurses in practice
• Solid working knowledge of evidence‑based tools and programmes used in health visiting to support children’s development and wellbeing
• Confidence in using electronic health records and a range of IT systems
• A full UK driving licence and daily access to a car
• Experience in line management and team development
• The ability to present policies, outcomes, and service impact to commissioners and key stakeholders
• Skills in setting goals and managing interventions to deliver measurable outcomes

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.