Health Visitor

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Hailsham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Staff restaurants

Onsite nurseries

Accommodation

Onsite parking

Job summary

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a fully qualified Health Visitor (BSc SCPHN) to join our dynamic Early Help 0-19 Service in East Sussex. You will address sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way, developing strong relationships with colleagues, partners and communities.

You will contribute to preventative and educational support for families with children aged 0–5 and benefit from supervision, ongoing professional development and a supportive work environment with

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Health Visitor with a BSc SCPHN degree.
• Strong safeguarding knowledge and professional judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to address sensitive issues with families in a supportive way.

Responsibilities

• Provide preventative and educational support to families in the 0-5 age range.
• Contribute to the Public Health Agenda and high impact areas.
• Engage in supervision, professional development and practice reflection.

Skills

BSc SCPHN

Safeguarding

Interpersonal skills

Clear communication

Education

BSc SCPHN

Job description

You are a fully qualified Health Visitor with a BSc SCPHN degree. You may have just completed your training.

Crucially, you will be able to address sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way.

You can maintain good interpersonal relationships with colleagues, partners and families.

You enjoy providing preventative and educational support for families, new staff and students according to their needs.

Your work contributes directly to the Public Health Agenda in addressing the 6 high impact areas.

You share our values, demonstrate compassion and a desire to contribute the improvement and development of the service.

You will be a reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who understands the true value of supervision and support and acts as a professional role model at all times.

You are keen to continue developing your knowledge of safeguarding children, recognising concerns and how to escape them appropriately.

In East Sussex our highly innovative Early Help 0-19 Service puts health visiting at the very heart of support for families with children from 0-5yrs across the county. Now, we are looking for qualified health visitors who want to be part a dynamic, committed and integrated team of highly trained, early help professionals who effectively work together ensuring the needs of families are at the centre of everything we do.

We recognise that each family is unique and the service we deliver must accommodate families' changing needs. In order to deliver that level of service we operate a transparent culture where we encourage creative thinking and innovative practice.

Believing our workforce to be our greatest asset, we provide unparalleled levels of supervision and staff support with a strong focus on staff wellbeing

A programme of in-house clinical and professional development via conference style events, communities of practice and clinical update days

Development opportunities via delivery of clinical supervision and champion roles

Involvement in service development and quality improvement via working groups and audit.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.