Health Visitor

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Reward Hub discounts

Salary-on-demand access to wages

Wellbeing support

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a Public Health Lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population area. You will deliver the universal Healthy Child Programme, assess health needs, and implement targeted interventions with the skill mix team to achieve outcomes.

You will co-manage a caseload and lead safeguarding and multi-agency work with families, carers and partners, enhancing child health and wellbeing in line with national programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading health visiting teams.
• Ability to develop professional relationships with families and partners.
• Experience delivering interventions to improve outcomes for children and families.

Responsibilities

• Lead health visiting activity within the defined locality.
• Collaborate with partners to address public health needs.
• Promote health and wellbeing for children aged 0-5 through the Healthy Child Programme.
• Co-manage a caseload and supervise nurse learners where appropriate.

Skills

Public health leadership

Team leadership

Safeguarding children

IT systems

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification

Tools

Electronic health records

IT systems

Job description

• Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area. Delivering the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs, and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
• To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
• To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
• To contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
• To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
  Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
• Current NMC registration on third part of the register
• Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams
• Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
• Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
• Working knowledge of the tools and programmes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children
• Car driver and use of car for work
• Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems

Desirable

• Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
• Experience in line management and developing teams
• Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
• Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes
• Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes
  Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.