Community Staff Nurse- Health Visiting

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Ruislip; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services provider seeks a Community Staff Nurse in Ruislip to enhance family support through the Health Visitor Service. The role involves working collaboratively with health professionals and families, delivering essential public health initiatives. Applicants should be NMC registered nurses with a strong commitment to empowering clients and safeguarding vulnerable children. Competitive pay and support offered.

Benefits

NHS benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in health visiting or community nursing.
• Ability to work in partnership with families and teams.
• Understanding of safeguarding procedures.

Responsibilities

• Delivering the Health Visitor Service to families.
• Supporting the Health Visiting Team in service delivery.
• Planning and managing own workload as directed by Health Visitors.

Skills

Compassion

Effective communication

Empowerment

Teamwork

Clinical knowledge

Education

NMC registered nurse qualification

Job description

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Client:

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Ruislip, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job overview

The post holder of Community Staff Nurse in Health Visiting works as a member of the Health Visiting Service to deliver the Health Visitor Service Specification and Healthy Child Programme to residents of Hillingdon. Work is delegated to Community Staff Nurses by Health Visitors; the skills and knowledge of Community Staff Nurses enhance and complement the team and help in the early intervention and prevention work of the service and the support of families. Community Staff Nurses are required to work in partnership the families, health care professionals and professionals fromm other agencies.

The Band 5 Community Staff Nurse will work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends, and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.
Nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• To contribute to the delivery of the Health Visitor Service Specification, Healthy Child Programme,
• To support the Health Visiting Team and Service to provide a range of services across the borough, including public health, mental health and parenting initiatives.
• To undertake group working within the Trust and in partnership with other organisation
• To work in partnership with Health Visitors in the identification and safeguarding of vulnerable children by contributing to case conferences, core groups, team around family meetings, working to develop and deliver plan of care in accordance with local and national
  guidelines.
• To work with partner agencies, liaising and delivering care as identified.
• To follow Trust policies and procedures with reference to issues such as confidentiality, record keeping and health and safety.
• To plan and manage workload as designated by a Health Visitor and report any untoward findings to a Health Visitor as soon as possible.
• To support the service to deliver a five day a week service to the families of Hillingdon.
• To participate in the induction and support of new staff members and students.
• To participate in clinical, safeguarding and management supervision, appraisal and personal development process.
• To develop and build skills of team leadership and management and caseload management

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Community Staff Nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Outcomes
Community Staff Nurses contribute to the effectiveness of services by:

• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures.
• Working with clients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
• Acting as client advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of clients and providing clinically effective care
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to clients but within their own limits of competency and confidence
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by:
  - communicating well with all members of the team
  - understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its’ objectives
  - reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
  - identifying how care can be improved

Patient Experience
Community Staff Nurses contribute to those using our services ensuring they feel respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:

• Working in partnership with clients and their families and carers
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
• Signposting clients and carers to supportive services e.g. services provided by the local authority or the voluntary sector
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust’s policy

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.