Health Visitor East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

East Lancashire NHS Hospitals Trust; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated professional to join their integrated 0-19 Universal Health Service. This role involves providing strong clinical leadership and supervision to a skill-mixed team, focusing on delivering the Health Child Programme for children aged 0-5. The position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on health outcomes within the community by addressing health inequalities and ensuring effective safeguarding practices. If you are passionate about public health and eager to collaborate with diverse professionals, this role could be your next career step.

Qualifications

• Strong clinical leadership and supervision skills are essential.
• Experience in delivering public health services and health visiting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the Health Child Programme 0-5.
• Work in partnership with families and communities to improve health outcomes.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Public Health Service Delivery

Health Visiting

Safeguarding

Partnership Working

Education

Nursing Qualification

Specialist Public Health Nurse Training

Job description

To work as part of the 0-19 Universal Health Service and to provide strong clinical leadership and supervision to an integrated 0-19 skill mixed team.

To lead on the delivery of the Health Child Programme 0-5, providing a family-centred, evidence-based public health service that aims to proactively improve health outcomes for a defined caseload, population, or community, reducing the risks and impact of health inequalities by working in partnership with families, communities, and other professionals. This will be achieved through the delivery of the model of health visiting at a community, universal, targeted, and specialist level. Safeguarding is embedded within the model, considering safe and effective management of risk for children, young people, and families.

Key Relationships

1. Service Manager/Team Leader/Practice Teacher
2. Specialist Public Health Nurse/Public Health Staff Nurses/Mental Health Practitioners/Senior Child Health Workers/Child Health Support Workers/Link Workers
3. Nursery and Early Years provision
4. Midwifery services
5. Social Services Agencies
6. Criminal Justice Agencies
7. Safeguarding team/CSE team/CIOC team
8. Local authority early help, support, and intervention services
9. Drug and alcohol services
10. Sexual health services
11. GPs
12. Paediatric therapies
13. Paediatric nurses
14. Paediatricians
15. Voluntary sector

Since 1 April 2017, the 0-19 Universal Service has worked in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority and other voluntary and community sector providers to deliver the new, integrated, Healthy Child Programme. The new programme will build on previous achievements in the borough by bringing together health visiting, school nursing, specialist infant feeding, and other services to be provided by partners in the third sector aiming towards achieving a consolidated public health service. The area of ELHT footprint covers a wide area and you will be expected to be flexible to meet the needs of the service; however, localities often remain the same.

This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024.