Health Visitor - Flying Start

The Methodist Church in Britain; Buckley; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is seeking an Health Visitor within the Flying Start Health Visiting Service. The role involves managing a defined caseload of families, assessing needs, planning and evaluating care, and delivering group and community work to tackle health inequalities.

The post works in a multi-agency Flying Start team to provide enhanced local services, contributing to the public health agenda and striving to increase family resilience and improve population health.

Qualifications

• SCPHN Health Visitor qualification or equivalent in health visiting.
• Current NMC registration is essential.
• Nurse prescribing qualification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of families and individuals.
• Assess needs and plan, implement and evaluate the programme of care.
• Facilitate group and community work addressing health inequalities with the team.
• Work within the Flying Start multi-agency team to deliver enhanced local services.
• Contribute to the public health role in line with government initiatives.
• Promote family resilience and improved population health while safeguarding children.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Public health knowledge

Team collaboration

Autonomy under pressure

Welsh language

Education

SCPHN Health Visitor qualification

NMC registration

Nurse prescribing qualification

Tools

MS Word

Email

Job description

This Health Visitor post sits in the Flying Start Health Visiting Service at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, within a multi-agency team. The core of the work is managing a defined caseload of families, assessing needs and planning care, alongside group and community work to tackle health inequalities. The post serves communities in need through the Flying Start scheme, and Welsh is desirable. Fit depends on a SCPHN health visiting qualification and current NMC registration, with experience preferred.

What the job involves

• Manage a defined caseload of families and individuals
• Assess needs and plan, implement and evaluate the programme of care offered
• Facilitate group and community work addressing health inequalities, in partnership with the wider multi-skilled team
• Work within the multi-agency Flying Start team to deliver enhanced local services to communities in need
• Contribute to the public health role in line with government public health initiatives
• Work towards increasing family resilience, improving population health outcomes and reducing health inequalities, while safeguarding children's wellbeing

Qualifications

• SCPHN Health Visitor postgraduate diploma or certificate, or a degree or equivalent in health visiting, or on a current SCPHN course
• Nurse prescribing qualification

Registration & licences

• Current NMC registration

Experience

• Teaching in a clinical setting
• Safeguarding and multi-agency working

Skills & knowledge

• In-depth knowledge of the public health agenda, health visiting practice and strategic drivers
• Ability to apply and enact local strategy
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Knowledge of All Wales Child Protection Procedures (2008) and Healthy Child Wales Programme (2015)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Other

• Effective mentoring and leadership skills
• Works autonomously and under pressure to deadlines
• Motivates and influences others; team player open to change
• Flexible approach to unpredictable workload; reflects on and appraises own performance
• Basic IT skills including Word and email
• Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner

Nice to have

• SCPHN degree
• Mentorship or clinical supervisor experience
• Level 3 safeguarding
• Partnership working
• Facilitating group work
• Change management experience and skills
• MECC
• Ability to speak Welsh