Band 6 Health Visitor | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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

Job summary

A public health organization is seeking passionate Health Visitors to deliver health promotion and preventative services within a diverse community in Birmingham. Applicants must hold a Health Visiting qualification and demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills. This role offers flexible/agile working arrangements to support a good work-life balance and the opportunity to work across multiple healthcare settings. Join us to make a tangible impact on the health and wellbeing of children and families in the region.

Benefits

Flexible/agile working

Return to Practice framework for out-of-practice practitioners

Recruitment & Retention Premia for health visiting roles

Opportunity to work across Birmingham and the West Midlands

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse with a Health Visiting qualification.
• Ability to work in an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.
• Willingness to adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise nursery nurses and other support staff.
• Plan and deliver health promotion and prevention services.
• Evaluate programs of care using assessment tools.
• Identify vulnerable children and refer as needed.
• Participate in multi-agency child protection plans.

Skills

Public health promotion

Health assessment

Interpersonal communication

Team leadership

Education

Health Visiting Degree, Diploma or Certificate

Job description

Role Overview

Do you have passion and commitment to public health and the early intervention agenda and want to work in one of the most diverse and thriving cities in England? BCHC is committed to providing a good work‑life balance, therefore offering flexible/agile working to all our staff. We are looking for passionate and committed Health Visitors who are highly skilled, enthusiastic, clinical practitioners and have a good understanding of the needs of children, young people and their families and want to be part of our journey to work as part of an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.

The post holder will be a first level registered nurse with a Health Visiting Degree, Diploma or Certificate and will work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. The post holder is responsible for assessing need and providing health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population, working within a corporate caseload and with the local population on children and family centred public health related issues.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) delivers over 100 clinical services across Birmingham and the West Midlands, providing care in homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.

Responsibilities

• Day‑to‑day management and delegation of work to nursery nurses, link workers and any other support staff within the team (including supervision and monitoring the work of these staff).
• Overseeing and planning in‑service development for these staff.
• Assess need and provide health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population.
• Work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice, case load, families using local children’s centres, early education clusters, and other health partners.
• Deliver the Health Child Programme through compassionate caring assessment, analysis of need, developing, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care using assessment tools in line with the service specification for the health visiting service to address identified health needs.
• Use the common assessment framework to assess and plan with families where multi‑agency partnership working is required.
• Formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to their need, open active health and wellbeing files, monitor all open files in accordance with the records keeping policy, closing when package of care is complete.
• Carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities, meeting and reporting on agreed key performance indicators.
• Give evidence‑based advice on health issues to members of the local population in a way which promotes behavioural change and builds on strengths.
• Work to current NICE guidelines on antenatal and postnatal mental health to identify, support and refer women at risk of developing postnatal depression, and those who are mild to moderately depressed.
• Maintain quality standards of care using audit and other monitoring systems to evaluate the service.
• Identify vulnerable children in need of protection, refer to Social Care and Health following the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board policies in all cases of suspected or actual emotional, physical, sexual abuse and neglect, and follow up domestic violence notifications in line with Trust policy.
• Attend team‑around‑the‑family meetings, case conferences, undertake and fulfil the responsibilities that are appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor as agreed in the multi‑agency child protection plan.
• Work in partnership with families to plan and arrange appointments for clinics and home visit.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with the families, primary healthcare team and other professionals working in both the statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Ensure all equipment used by professionals in clinic settings are maintained and fit for purpose, order equipment for client use as identified following a healthcare assessment, and advise on safe fitting and appropriate use.
• Promote and support immunisation programmes offered nationally to service users.
• Enter all data required on the data collection system accurately and on time according to policy.
• Attend and actively participate in staff meetings including multi‑agency steering groups, etc and take responsibility for completion of appropriate tasks arising from any such meeting.
• Ensure all written records are kept to the required NMC standard, be able to write letters of referral to other services and produce complex reports for court hearings relating to child protection.
• Deal with and support families through difficult family situations such as illness, domestic violence, bereavement and child protection.
• Have ongoing responsibility for the management of a caseload, including electronic recording, data inputting and reports.
• Provide professional advice on issues relating to Health Visiting and promote an understanding of health needs among other agencies.
• Supervise, mentor and assess pre‑registration student nurses on placement, provide mentoring for other healthcare students, including health visitor students.
• Access safeguarding, caseload and clinical supervision in order to ensure a resilient workforce which prioritises excellent safe, compassionate care.
• Participate in Nurse prescribing – undertaking a full assessment of minor conditions appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor, prescribing from the formulary where indicated, and accessing continuing professional development in prescribing.
• Convey complex information to other professionals and to clients and work with other professionals and clients in difficult circumstances such as child protection, terminal illness or bereavement.
• Plan, organise and run clinics/groups.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities

• Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.
• Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place and carry out personal development reviews for direct reports. Ensure all staff in your team/s have annual PDR’s resulting in specific objectives and effective personal development plans.
• Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objectives are included in PDR’s.
• Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.

Qualifications & Requirements

• First level registered nurse with a Health Visiting Degree, Diploma or Certificate.
• Willingness to work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Ability to work in an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.

Benefits

• Flexible/agile working to support a good work‑life balance.
• Return to Practice framework for practitioners out of practice.
• Recruitment & Retention Premia for health visiting based on additional payment for Band 6 and Band 7 posts.
• Opportunity to work across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles with over 100 clinical services.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

BCHC welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds and is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, shaping the way services are delivered and teams built.

This advert closes on Friday 2 Jan 2026.