Health Visitor Newport Borough

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Newport; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a multi-award winning NHS organization dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare. As a Health Visitor, you will be part of a passionate team delivering Early Years Health Visiting programs to families in Newport. This role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while collaborating with various services to ensure the well-being of children and families from diverse backgrounds. With a commitment to professional development, flexible working, and a supportive workplace culture, this is an exciting chance to make a significant impact in the community and advance your career in healthcare.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Paid Mandatory Training

Occupational Health Support

Career Development Opportunities

Wellbeing Centre of Excellence

Qualifications

• Candidates must have SCPHN Qualification and experience with vulnerable families.
• Essential skills include leadership and excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide Health Visiting services to children and families across Gwent.
• Contribute to the development of new projects and policies.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

IT Skills

Change Management Skills

Ability to Reflect and Critically Appraise

Ability to Work Autonomously

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Education

SCPHN Qualification

Working towards SCPHN Qualification

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post; therefore, please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

We are seeking to employ enthusiastic Health Visitors to join our Newport Health Visiting Team. You will be working within a team of Health Visitors and skill mix staff delivering an Early Years Health Visiting programme to families living within the City of Newport.

The successful candidate will have the relevant qualification, professionalism and clinical skills necessary to work on their own initiative as well as working effectively in partnership with parents/carers and other services such as Early Years Services, Primary Care, Children Services and School Nursing. Applications from students due to qualify are also welcomed.

Main Duties of the Job

Health Visitors contribute to the development of new projects and policies within the health visiting service and are involved in the research, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practice. The post holder will be responsible for providing universal, enhanced, and intensive Health Visiting services to children and families from all cultural diversities on their case load. Health Visitors work as a team across locally defined areas and support the service across Gwent, to provide a safe service for all preschool children and their families.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for Our Organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Confident and have the ability to motivate others
• Team player and change agent
• Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner

Desirable Criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh

Essential Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Leadership skills
• Competent in IT skills, completing data and writing emails
• Proven skills in motivating and influencing others

Desirable Skills

• Change management skills
• MECC

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Delivery of HCWP
• Working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with Safeguarding and Vulnerable families

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding of HCWP

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• SCPHN Qualification

Desirable Criteria

• Working towards SCPHN Qualification