Bank B6 Health Visitor -INW

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established community healthcare organization is seeking a skilled Health Visitor to deliver high-quality services across London. In this role, you will plan, organize, and evaluate innovative health visiting services while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure seamless care for clients. You'll have the opportunity to work in diverse community settings, engaging with families to develop tailored health plans. This is a fantastic chance to make a real impact in the community, championing health initiatives and supporting vulnerable populations. Join a team that values diversity and is committed to improving health outcomes across London.

Benefits

Provision of laptops to staff

Agile working options

Diversity and Inclusion Networks

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with current NMC registration required.
• Experience in coordinating health promotion initiatives is essential.

Responsibilities

• Plan and evaluate health visiting services, ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers for seamless service delivery.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Management and Leadership

Training and Teaching

Knowledge of Health Legislation

Quality and Performance Management

Education

Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife

Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)

Current NMC Registration

Job description

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Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Monday - Friday

To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative health visiting service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the health visiting team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence-based health visiting service to clients in a variety of community settings.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities.
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Clinical
• Quality and Performance
• Management and Leadership
• Professionalism
• Training and Teaching

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the undertaking and reporting of performance measures, alerting Team Leads of any shortfalls.
Ensure the timely and correct entry of clinical and statistical data onto electronic patient records and systems as required by the Trust.
To support the Team Lead with the delivery of the CSU Quality Strategy action plan.
To actively seek out the voice of the client/child.
To report all near misses/incidents on the Trust wide system.
To attend a quality meeting e.g., PSRG once a year.
To actively participate in clinical and safeguarding supervision on a regular basis in line with organisational guidelines.
To provide clinical supervision to others in line with Trust policy.

Working for our organisation

CLCH NHS Trust is currently re-shaping the way Health Visitors work, looking at new and innovative practices to improve health across London. This includes agile working and provision of laptops to all staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deliver the healthy child programme and work in partnership with families to develop and agree tailored health plans as required.
Utilising specialist skills and knowledge, advise and support individuals and families on evidence-based health care practices.
Understand the caseload profile including the health needs of the defined population and local communities, targeting outreach services to meet their needs.
Initiate referrals to multi-disciplinary/agency colleagues as required to ensure adequate care and support for families and children.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual/group programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the population.
To develop and delegate appropriately the implementation of regular health promotion initiatives on specific health issues and to specific groups and individuals.
To facilitate the promotion of the national immunisation programme to ensure maximum possible protection against disease.
To provide care and attention to the needs of children identified as at risk and/or with complex needs, taking appropriate action when required.

Person specification

• Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
• Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
• Current NMC registration
• Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards

Experience

• Experience
• Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
• Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
• Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others

Skills & Knowledge

• Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
• Knowledge of current health legislation (including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc.)
• Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
• Motivated to learn and develop to meet the needs of the service
• Willingness to facilitate and support the learning of others in the practice environment

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

• Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
• Race Equality Network
• Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.