Health Visitor

NHS; Treorchy; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board as a Health Visitor, providing care for pre-school children and families. In this role, you will assess health needs, implement health initiatives, and collaborate with various agencies to enhance community health services. This position requires a Registered Nurse and offers a competitive salary within the NHS framework.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse and/or Midwife required.
• Welsh language skills at Level 3 are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative practices and monitor outcomes.
• Deliver clinically excellent child health surveillance and health promotion.

Skills

Clinical governance

Participation in public health policies

Education

BSc Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

MSc in Community Health Studies

Job description

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Health Visitor

The closing date is 15 July 2025

The health visitor is responsible for a defined caseload of pre-school children and families within a geographic area or General Practice population.

The main purpose of the job includes the assessment of health need, the implementation and evaluation of health enhancing activities and the generation of information that can be utilised to influence policies that affect health.

Have freedom to practice/act within parameters and is guided within defined policies, protocols at a local and national level and by Code of Conduct.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This means Speaking & Listening at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2). We don't need fluency. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the 'Croeso Candidate' booklet below.

Main duties of the job

Using own initiative and working with the deputy senior and senior nurse, develop innovative ways of working, implementing change effectively and monitoring outcomes.

Ensuring the delivery of innovative, clinically excellent evidence based child health surveillance, health promotion and other public health initiatives.

Plan, deliver and evaluate health visiting intervention working with statutory and voluntary agencies.

Work as part of the team.

Assist the deputy senior nurse, working collaboratively with other health visitors within the University Health Board to ensure the delivery of equitable, high quality services.

Communicate information in a sensitive way when dealing with issues that are sensitive and contentious.

Work collaboratively and maintain effective communication with health and other professionals to ensure the provision of a high quality preventative health service, for example primary care, local authority.

Communicate effectively with multi-agency teams, statutory and voluntary agencies; maintaining effective internal and external networks to enhance service delivery.

Actively work with partner agencies to support and maintain development of the public health approach including participating in community development and establishing links within the Local University Health Board, Health Promotion, National Public Health Service, and other local projects.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.We live by our core values:

We listen, learn and improve

• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse and/or Midwife. BSc Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
• MSc in Community Health Studies.

Experience and skills

• Skilled Practitioner embracing clinical governance and clinical effectiveness.
• Participate in the development and implementation of public health policies. Management.

Language

• Level 3 or above Speaking/Listening in Welsh

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

£37,898 to £45,637 a yearPer annum pro rata