Health Visitor - Homeless/Asylum/Refugee Families

Integrated Care System; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Health Visitor to support vulnerable families facing homelessness or asylum seeking in Greater Manchester. This role involves delivering the Healthy Child Programme and collaborating with local agencies to improve health outcomes for children and young people. Candidates must be registered nurses with a commitment to public health.

Benefits

Flexible working

27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Pension Scheme

Gym discount

Support with stress, bereavement, and relationships

Qualifications

• Experience working within various communities with differing public health needs.
• Experience supporting families experiencing homelessness or seeking asylum.

Responsibilities

• Provide community-based support to families in need.
• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme to ensure children's health and wellbeing.
• Lead complex case management and safeguarding for vulnerable children.

Skills

Communication skills

Ability to travel

Education

UK Nursing and Midwifery Council Registered Nurse

Registered independent Nurse Prescriber V100

Job description

Go back Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Health Visitor - Homeless/Asylum/Refugee Families

The closing date is 10 August 2025

Health Visitor - Homeless/Asylum/Refugee Families - 30 hours per week

Are you a Health Visitor eager to make a real difference with the children, young people and families in Tameside?

Our Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) Service for Health Visiting and School Nursing has a vision to improve health outcomes for our population and influence the wider determinants of health, through collaboration with the people of Tameside and Glossop and our health and care partners.We are currently progressing through an exciting service transformation in conjunction with all our team.

Our skilled and diverse neighbourhood teams are looking for a Health Visitor who has a passion for improving the lives through public health, specifically for those families facing homelessness or seeking asylum or refugee status.

This role delivers SCPHN Health Visiting care from a designated caseload within a small team, in conjunction with and as part of the wider Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) service. The small team link with the local authority and wider partners in identifying families who face homelessness/ asylum seeking or refugee status. Following the completion of a health needs assessment and triage process, the work to support these families from a public health perspective is undertaken by the named Health Visitor or signposted to the wider 0-19 service.

Main duties of the job

You will provide compassionate, community-based support to children, young people, and families in Tameside in Greater Manchester, helping them stay healthy. You will be responsible for a caseload of children and deliver the Healthy Child Programme within a team. To ensure children receive the best start in life and school readiness is promoted.These families will have been identified as those who face homelessness/ asylum seeking or refugee status. Alongside another HV practitioner and a Quality support officer, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme at a universal, targeted and specialist level, in collaboration with the wider 0-19 Service.

You will be required to lead and manage the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, working with complex cases including safeguarding. Identifying at the earliest opportunity children with Special Educational Needs and Disability - signposting and supporting children, young people and families whilst being leaders in public health. You will work in collaboration with our neighbourhoods' communities, voluntary and statutory agencies.

Professional development is a high priority for us, and we provide a range of training opportunities and in-house expertise that will support your professional and personal development. Successful candidates will receive safeguarding supervision and service-specific training.

The post is based in the Tameside area only.

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

Job responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Qualifications

• UK Nursing and Midwifery Council Registered Nurse or Midwife
• Registered independent Nurse Prescriber V100

Skills

• Ability to travel in the area

Knowledge

• Have experience of Health Visiting within a variety of communities with varying public health needs
• Experience of Working with different communities including minority and ethnic groups
• Experience of working with children and families experiencing homelessness, seeking asylum or refugee status

Skills

• Demonstrate a high level of communication skills required for complex and sensitive issues

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.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearpro rata per annum