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DCHS Foundation Trust; High Peak; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

23 days annual leave + bank holidays

Training & development

Maternity/Paternity benefits

Employee assistance programme

Networks & wellbeing

Job summary

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust seeks Health Visitors to deliver the Healthy Child Programme across the North High Peak area. The role requires SCPHN Health Visiting and V100/V150 nurse prescribing qualifications, with travel across a rural locality and occasional meetings in Derbyshire.

You will manage caseloads, address safeguarding, assess needs, and develop care programmes while supporting the local 0-19 team that has Gold accreditation.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
• Ability to manage safeguarding within caseloads.
• Capacity to plan, implement and evaluate care programmes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the Healthy Child Programme to families and communities.
• Manage a defined caseload and address safeguarding issues.
• Assess needs and develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Prescribe within the nurse prescribing formulary as appropriate.
• Lead and develop Health Visiting support staff.

Skills

Public health

Community health

Teamwork

Education

SCPHN Health Visiting

Nurse Prescriber (V100/V150)

Job description

Health Visitor | Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking to appoint dedicated and motivated Health Visitors to work within the High Peaks, North Dales and Glossop locality. The High Peaks, North Dales and Glossop 0-19 Team have been awarded Gold accreditation for their work with Families and Communities.

DCHS is a forward-thinking, supportive Trust, who are a UNICEF Baby-Friendly accredited organisation and achieved Outstanding CQC status in 2019. Working in a rural community you will find that there are lots of opportunities for developing public health work with communities and partner agencies, as well as delivering the core contacts within the Healthy Child Programme.

The right candidates will hold the SCPHN qualification in Health Visiting and the V100/V150 and be innovative and dynamic team players who are looking for a new challenge.

The base for this post is in New Mills however the team covers the whole of the North High Peak area. This is a rural location and requires travelling across the locality. Training days and meetings are sometimes in other parts of Derbyshire.

• To provide Health Visiting services to families in the community team caseload by delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
• To manage a defined active caseload and take responsibility for Safeguarding Children issues within that caseload.
• To have continuing responsibility for the assessment of individuals needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
• To prescribe according to assessed individual need from the Nurse Prescribing Formulary.
• To manage a team of Health Visiting support staff.

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network, Christian Network, Veterans network and Long-term Conditions network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

• To manage and take continuing responsibility for a defined caseload/geographical area and be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and setting of defined standards of care which are evidence based and meet Trust Policies and Procedures to ensure quality of care for patients.
• Identify, assess and determine client need and where appropriate prescribe from within the nurse prescribing formulary in accordance with evidence, practice-based, patient medical history and Trust Policies and Procedures.

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Sep 2026