Health Visitor - Slough

NHS; Slough; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health organization seeks a Health Visitor for its Slough Child and Family Wellbeing Services. This role offers opportunities for development, including dual qualification as a SCPHN Nurse, and you will lead essential care and support public health initiatives. Join a proactive team dedicated to improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to discounts and cashback offers

Mental health support and career coaching

Professional development opportunities

£100,000 innovation funding

Qualifications

• Experience in health visiting or similar roles.
• Ability to manage child protection cases.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver high-quality care according to the Healthy Child Programme.
• Assess health needs and implement targeted interventions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with families and stakeholders.

Skills

Public health leadership

Partnership working

Education

SCPHN Nursing qualification

Job description

Are you looking for a Health Visitor role that offers real variety, strong team support, and clear opportunities for development?

At Slough Child and Family Wellbeing Services, you'll be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, with access to a structured development pathway, including the opportunity to become a dual-qualified SCPHN Nurse and potential progression into strategic Band 7 and 8 roles.

Our service offers a unique working environment where senior leaders, including our Managing Director, are highly visible and actively engaged. You'll feel genuinely heard, with the opportunity to share your ideas and shape the way we work.

As a Health Visitor (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse), you'll lead and deliver high-quality, proactive care in line with the Healthy Child Programme. Our mission is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children, and improve outcomes by working for the community, with the community.

We welcome applications for this role.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Visitor, you will:

• Act as the public health lead for the health visiting skill-mix team within a defined population or locality area.
• Deliver the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme by assessing health needs, implementing targeted or personalised interventions, and delegating effectively to the wider skill-mix team in an outcomes-focused manner.
• Take responsibility for the outcomes of children on child protection plans within your caseload, working in close collaboration with key partners to address identified public health needs.
• Develop and maintain strong, professional relationships with families and key stakeholders, fostering effective partnership working.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services, as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year — guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive as everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the listed date. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you will be part of our valued team in our Slough Child & Family Wellbeing Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 Salary £37,338 - £44,962 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping, as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and your loved ones.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest rates.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas that can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organization committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and it will be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.