Health Visitor

Cambridgeshire Community Services Nhs Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS community provider in Peterborough is looking for a passionate Health Visitor to promote health among children and families. The role involves delivering the Healthy Child Programme, managing a caseload, and collaborating with various health services. Ideal candidates will have a child-focused approach, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to innovative care. Join a dedicated team and contribute to outstanding community healthcare delivery in an organization rated highly for its services.

Benefits

Continuous staff development

Passionate team culture

Qualifications

• Enthusiasm, resilience, and a passion for service.
• Experience in child and family service delivery.
• Ability to work within integrated health care teams.

Responsibilities

• Promote good health in children and families.
• Develop and implement care plans.
• Collaborate with families and health agencies.

Job description

Overview

Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?

Responsibilities

• A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count
• The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
• A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
• Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills
• Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies, ensuring the best outcomes for children and families, to work as part of a team leading the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme

The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities. Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care. They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory & voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes. Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within the Peterborough and Cambridgeshire area.

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey. If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.