Band 6 Health Visitor - BFS Hub | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Nechells; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks passionate SCPHN Health Visitors to advise and support families through a virtual service. This desk-based role focuses on providing guidance via telephone and email, ensuring children and families achieve their best start in life. Full training will be provided. Applications close on September 15, 2025.

Qualifications

• Passion and commitment to public health.
• Enthusiasm and motivation for service excellence.
• Ability to support families through advice and signposting.

Responsibilities

• Offer advice and support to parents and professionals via telephone and email.
• Assess needs of families contacting the HUB.
• Manage correspondence and prioritise as necessary.

Job description

Overview

Do you have passion and commitment to public health and the early intervention agenda, then why not work with us on our journey to reimagine Health Visiting in one of the most diverse and thriving cities in England?

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated SCPHN Health Visitors with initiative and drive who are passionate about providing an excellent service to support children and their families achieve best start in life.

About the HUB

At the BFS Health Visiting Virtual HUB we are continuing to re-imagine and re-shape the way Health Visitors work. We have a diverse and inclusive team of skill mix who work collaboratively with services/partners/key stakeholders and all our families to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and provide the highest level of clinical excellence.

This is a new initiative which reimagines the delivery of BFS Health Visiting Service for the City of Birmingham, which involves qualified practitioners providing a virtual telephone and email service from a single point of access. Whilst this is a desk-based role, which does not involve direct face to face contact with service users, future planning will involve utilisation of virtual consultation, such as attend anywhere and chat health.

Role Requirements

• To offer advice and support to parents, professionals and stakeholders via telephone and email.
• Assessing the need of families – who contact the HUB via telephone - providing advice, support, and signposting.
• Managing telephone and email correspondence from professionals and stakeholders, prioritising where necessary in order of need and importance.
• Requirements of the role include supporting the development of the Assistant Practitioners, in their HUB role.

Full details are contained within the Job Description and Person Specification. Full training and support will be given to successful candidates.

Additional Information

• For an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Rebecca Scott on 07740 457712.
• IMPORTANT: Please check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully, including full details of all referees (business email address, telephone contact details and postal address).

Be Part of Our Team

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities, for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the international West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care rooted in our local communities, with an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Monday 15 Sep 2025