SCPHN Health Visitor

The Methodist Church in Britain; Walsall; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Health Visitor to lead the Children, Young People and Families public health team. The post involves supervising team caseloads, leading child protection work with multi-agency partners, and running nurse-led clinics in home, GP clinic, or other settings.

You will provide antenatal support, assess and plan caseloads, liaise with schools and CAMHS, and ensure evidence-based practice.

Qualifications

• First level NMC registration with SCPHN (Health Visiting) qualification.
• Demonstrable evidence of professional development in public health and nursing.
• Experience delivering health promotion and health education programmes for children and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and professional direction to the public health team, ensuring safe, evidence-based interventions.
• Deliver a public health service that improves the health of children and families in Walsall, working in partnership.
• Lead child protection work with multi-agency partners and chair or participate in multi-agency meetings.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Decision making

Education

SCPHN (Health Visiting)

NMC registration

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

EMIS

Job description

This health visiting post with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust sits within the children, young people and families public health team, with a corporate caseload. The work centres on clinical leadership: supervising team caseloads, leading child protection work with multi-agency partners and running nurse-led clinics. Care may be given in homes, GP clinics, virtually or other settings, mostly for pre-school children. Applicants need first level registration with the NMC and the SCPHN (Health Visiting) qualification.

What the job involves

• Provide clinical leadership and professional direction to the children, young people and families public health team, ensuring safe, evidence-based interventions
• Deliver a public health service that improves the health of children and families in Walsall, working in partnership
• Work autonomously within a multi-agency arena to help children, mostly of pre-school age, reach their potential physically, emotionally and socially
• Assess, plan, delegate, maintain and review caseloads for each team member, matching needs to skill mix
• Take the lead for child protection work, contributing to plans, attending case conferences and core groups, and chairing or joining multi-agency meetings
• Lead on the health needs of specific groups, such as looked-after children and children with medical needs, including nurse-led clinics
• Organise and chair weekly team meetings and plan the team's workload in the clinical lead's absence
• Undertake team members' personal development reviews and clinical supervision, and agree development plans
• Refer children to specialist services such as CAMHS, giving detailed written and verbal information
• Liaise with teaching staff and school medical staff, acting as a link between school and home
• Provide antenatal support to individuals assessed as needing early intervention
• Monitor and report client and staff safety, accidents and incidents in line with risk management policies

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) qualification
• Evidence of professional development

Registration & licences

• First level registered nurse with NMC registration

Experience

• Demonstrable experience working with children and young people
• Demonstrable or relevant experience delivering health promotion and health education programmes

Skills & knowledge

• Making timely, effective and appropriate decisions
• Establishing and maintaining key relationships with colleagues and other disciplines, internally and externally
• Effective written and verbal communication with children, families and others
• Working effectively as part of a team
• Making sound clinical judgements and directing other team members to deliver high-quality care
• Leadership skills, facilitating others to develop service provision and understanding of professional responsibilities

Other

• Evidence of using evidence-based practice and appraising standards, providing clinical direction and support for staff
• Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy for children's services, including safeguarding
• Ability to apply the clinical governance framework to clinical practice
• In-depth knowledge of immunisation issues
• Keyboard skills and Microsoft packages such as Word, email, PowerPoint and Excel, plus ability to access information on the internet