SCPHN Health Visitor

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Health Visitor to join our Medway team. The role supports a shift toward community-based care, offering flexible working options and strong development opportunities within an outstanding Trust.

You will work with a close-knit team to protect and promote the health of children and young people at home, in collaboration with local Primary Care Networks. We value compassionate, aspirational, and excellent care.

Qualifications

• Health Visitors are closely aligned with local Primary Care Networks to provide holistic and joined-up care.
• We are a flexible employer offering various working patterns.

Responsibilities

• Health Visitors make a difference by ensuring services are proactive and patient-focused.
• As a Band 6 Health Visitor you will work as part of a team to keep children and young people safe and well at home.

Job description

This role is currently only available to employees of health care providers from within the Kent and Medway integrated care system. Our Nursing and AHP Vacancies are also open to Bank Workers and Agency Workers at these health care providers, Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.

We believe in treating the whole person, not just the condition.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable Health Visitor to join our caring and progressive team in Medway.

You will work as part of a close-knit team who are dedicated to the health and wellbeing of people in Medway. Medway is made up of a diverse patient group with complex needs.

Health Visitors make a difference by making sure our services are proactive and patient-focused.

Our Health visitors are closely aligned with local Primary Care Networks, to make sure patient care is holistic and joined up. We believe in treating the whole person, not just the condition, so we take time to get to know our patients.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

As a Band 6 Health Visitor you will work as part of a team to keep children and young people safe and well at home.

We believe you offer the best patient care in a role where you feel supported and can work in a way that suits you, your life and your family. One way we support with this is by being a flexible employer.

We also believe in developing our talent from within. We recruit for values and train for skills, so you will never be pigeonholed. We have extensive opportunities for talented individuals looking to further their skills and knowledge.

We are an "Outstanding" rated Trust and one of the largest NHS community organisations in the UK. We can give you support to develop your skills, and a real commitment to your personal and continued professional development.

As a Trust, one of our main ambitions is to be a great place to work. Our We care strategy for 2023 to 2028 will help us make the biggest breakthroughs in improving your working lives and patient care. Flexible working is just one of the ways we can do this. More than half of our workforce works flexibly in some way. We will consider all kinds of flexible working including; part-time, job sharing, compressed hours, term time only, career breaks or annualised hours.

Additional Working Pattern: 22.5/ 3days a week

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is currently undertaking a significant programme of transformation to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.

We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.

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