Best Start Inclusion Health Visitor

Achieving for Children; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

iHV membership

Flexible working

Job summary

Achieving for Children is recruiting 1 Best Start Inclusion Health Visitor (NHS Band 6 equivalent) based in Maidenhead. The role focuses on improving access to health services for families with children aged 0-5 and those with SEND, working within the health visiting team and with the family hub.

You will provide expert guidance on SEND, supervise targeted nursery staff, and deliver direct family support while collaborating with education and community partners to achieve positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification (SCPHN).
• NMC registration (RGN/RMH/RMW) and evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance and supervision to targeted staff and the health visiting team.
• Undertake direct work with families with a small targeted caseload.
• Collaborate with family hub, health and education to engage community leaders.
• Develop and facilitate health visiting drop-in clinics and health promotion activities.

Skills

Partnership working

Data analysis

Clinical governance

Health visiting practice

Education

SCPHN qualification

NMC registration

Job description

Job summary

We are recruiting 1 Best Start Inclusion Health Visitor. The salary for these roles are equivalent to NHS Band 6

This is a new post created to support the government Best Start strategy with a focus on supporting families who find the health visiting service hard to access and those with children who have SEND or emerging SEND needs. The post will be based within the health visiting team but will also require close working with staff within the family hub.

The health Visiting service is provided by Achieving for Children, which is a social enterprise company also responsible for the provision of early help and social care services across RBWM. The health visiting team work out of the family hubs and have positive working relationships with our colleagues in the family hub and social care.

We offer corporate membership as a benefit with the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) to all our Health Visitors for professional support and evidence-based publications. Achieving for Children as an organisation has a strong ethos for staff training and development and staff wellbeing is a high priority. There are options for flexible working within the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

The Best Start Inclusion Health Visitor plays a pivotal role in championing equitable access to health services for families with children aged 0-5 years and ensuring that they receive the support needed to reach a good level of development by the end of reception.

The postholder will:

• Provide expert guidance, support and strategic input to the wider health visiting team in relation to SEND and underserved communities.
• Line manager and provide supervision for the Targeted Support Nursery Nurses.
• Undertake direct work with families holding a small targeted caseload.
• Work collaboratively with family hub, health and education to build positive relationships with community leaders.

About us

You will bring passion for supporting children and seeing them reach their potential, you will also:

• Be educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities) and Nursing and Midwifery Council membership.
• Possess extensive knowledge of child development and proven experience supporting children with complex SEND needs.
• Demonstrate experience working with underserved children and families, with the ability to design, implement, and evaluate interventions that deliver positive outcomes.
• Demonstrate experience in building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families, advocating on behalf of our service users.
• Hold a driving licence and have use of a vehicle to travel effectively to undertake work.

Job responsibilities

The Health Visiting Service is responsible for delivering the Healthy Child Programme to families in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) and forms part of the Early Help Offer for the 0 to 19 age group. We are divided into 4 geographical teams across the borough, however health visiting remains working with 0 to 5 years old and parents-to-be. We offer corporate membership as a benefit with the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) to all our Health Visitors for professional support and evidence-based publications.

The Health Visitor will work as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) at NHS Band 6 equivalent level within the community as a member of the Health Visiting Team. The Health Visitor will offer a comprehensive public health nursing service in accordance with AfCs Health Visiting Standard Operational Procedures and the Public Health England Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years.

They will assess each child and family health needs, using the appropriate assessment and risk assessment tools and ensure that at each contact with a child an assessment of the health and developmental needs are documented. Actions will include the development and implementation of outcome focused care plans and evaluation of the care given and this is done in partnership with clients.

The Health Visitor will be required to assess child protection concerns in relation to children and young people and to discuss these concerns with colleagues and to take appropriate action in line with the RBWM Safeguarding Partnership guidance. This can include decisions to breach confidentiality where this is in the best interest of the child or young person. The Health Visitor will support the child, young person and family throughout this process and to ensure that they are kept informed at all times and actively participate in child protection supervision. The Health Visitor will develop and facilitate Health Visiting drop in clinics, health promotion activities and groups. They will provide care according to the available evidence of best practice and support the team in the development of evidence based practice. The post holder will establish effective working relationships with members of the Primary Health Care Team, Midwives, Children Centres, School Nurses, allied professionals and voluntary agencies to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for families and children within the borough.

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities) and Nursing and Midwifery Council membership. Evidence of continuing professional development.

Skills and experience

• Knowledge of relevant theory that informs practice delivery for example Health Child Programme
• Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families. Advocating the voices of those we are working with
• Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making
• Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
• Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children's Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children's services and your role.
• Holds a recognised non-medical Prescriber qualification and to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for Community Practitioners according to agreed protocols and policies.
• Attends regular prescribing updates relevant to their practice.
• Experience of developing and facilitating Health Visiting drop in clinics, health promotion activities and groups.
• Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of relevant theory that informs practice delivery for example Health Child Programme
• Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families. Advocating the voices of those we are working with
• Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making
• Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
• Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services and your role.
• Holds a recognised non-medical Prescriber qualification and to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for Community Practitioners according to agreed protocols and policies.
• Attends regular prescribing updates relevant to their practice.
• Experience of developing and facilitating Health Visiting drop in clinics, health promotion activities and groups.
• Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities) and Nursing and Midwifery Council membership. Evidence of continuing professional development.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).