Specialist Health Visitor, Children with Special Needs & Disabilities

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Specialist Health Visitor to support children with special needs and disabilities. In this role, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide expert health visiting services, conduct assessments, and ensure families receive comprehensive support. The ideal candidate will hold relevant nursing qualifications and have substantial experience in community healthcare settings, demonstrating commitment to professional development and child safeguarding.

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant experience working with children and families in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Act as a lead professional for identified children with complex needs.
• Provide specialist advice to Health Visitors and community practitioners.
• Support families in accessing community resources.

Skills

IT efficiency

Education

Registered Nurse

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Job description

Go back Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Health Visitor, Children with Special Needs & Disabilities

The closing date is 30 July 2025

The Specialist Health Visitor works alongside the Camden MOSAIC service. This is an integrated service for children and young people with disabilities and their families. It aims to enable families to help their children to participate in family and community life.

MOSAIC (Making Our Services All Integrated in Camden) provides the skills and professionals needed to support the needs of children and young people with disabilities. It is a joint service provided by CNWL and the London Borough of Camden.

The service provides assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention from a range of health professionals to create a 'team around the child'.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will:

Act as a lead professional/key worker for identified children with complex additional needs who require an MDT approach to care and are referred to MOSAIC CDT. Provide health visiting expertise and liaison within the multidisciplinary team.

Use specialist public health knowledge and skills to support families and provide advice and signposting about continence, behaviour and sleep issues forchildren with specialneeds.

Act as the lead professional for families in the Child Development Team that have a child protection plan or where safeguarding concerns have been raised.

Provide information to families about all community resources including Early Support, Children Centre Services and Local Offer amongst others.

Be the lead professional for delivery of the Healthy Child Programme as appropriate, where post holder is the lead Health Visitor and as in agreement with Universal HV team. e.g MOSAIC CDT or on the Down Syndrome Pathway

About us

There's a place for you at CNWL.We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Provide specialist advice to Health Visitors and other community practitioners in supporting children with disabilitities.

Act as the first point of contact for those children referred and accepted to MOSAIC CDT or the Down Syndrome Pathway and undertake the initial contact for onboarding and access to waiting supports. Ensure relevant information from initial assessment is shared with CDT staff/Down Syndrome team. Participate in the multidisciplinary assessments and reviews where appropriate.]

To link with the complex care team when necessary and attend discharge planning meetings for children referred to MOSIAC CDT from hospital, as required.

To identify services from which families may benefit, assisting parents in their choices of service and make appropriate referrals.

To make any additional relevant referrals to enable families to access the necessary support, eg opthalmology, early help.

To act in accordance with the CNWL Safeguarding Children & Young People Policy & the London Child Protection Procedures; taking prompt action in relation to children where there is cause for concern

To support families and staff within CDT where there are safeguarding concerns and attend case conferences and core group meetings.

To support work alongside the MDT Coordinator and MOSAIC Service Manager with transition planning forchildren moving from the CDT to School Health where staff member has been involved.

Ensure that contemporaneous records of all contact with children, young people, and their parents / other professionals involved in the care of the child or young person are maintained.

Recording and providing information activity and service data as required.

Advising and supporting parents and children on strategies to promote good health.

Demonstrate advanced verbal and communication skills and the ability to communicate difficult or sometimes distressing information effectively on occasions, to clients, families and colleagues.

2. Partnership Working

Work closely with partner agencies and the Special Educational Needs team in order to provide relevant and up to date information about their services, to families on how to access their supports e.g. SENDIAS, EYIT.

T To signpost families towards the key working servicese.g. Family Workers, Early Help, Information and Engagement Team and Family Hubs. To ensure clarity about the role of the Specialist Health Visitor with parents/carers and other colleagues within the health service, local authority and voluntary agencies.

To work in partnership with paediatric and therapy colleagues to identify priorities and support management of health and developmental needs.

P Participate in decision making panels as appropriate eg triage panel, as required

To work closely with other members of the wider MOSAIC Team, participating in team meetings, and supporting objective setting, clinical governance priorities and the overall functioning of the team.

To attend CDT Clinical Lead meetings and other relevant working groups and participate in service improvements and redesigns as required.

3. Educational

Facilitate the personal and professional development of staff by participating in training and education programmes for staff within CNWL, partner agencies, using expertise on issues relating to children with special needs and related issues.

To provide a training to pre and post registration students and trainees in MOSAIC services.

To be responsible for own professional development and keep up-to-date with best evidence based practice.

Participate in quality improvement projects as identified by the team leaders in health Visiting and MOSAIC

To act as a resource within MOSAIC and Health Visiting services concerning current development within the service, taking forward initiatives to share best practice, acting as a clinical role model within the team by demonstrating high levels of clinical practice.

Contributes to and participates in the development of audit, evidence based practice, clinical governance activity and research where appropriate..

Encourage carer/user feedback and involvement to inform the development of the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills and abilities

• IT efficiency and confidence in using email, word, excel and electronic patient record systems
• Willingness to undertake additional training and CPD in line with service development

Knowlege and experience

• Significant experience working with children and families in a community setting
• Experience working with complex families
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Ability to work flexibly and respond to changing demands and methods of working both individually and within a team
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Knowledge of safeguarding children issues
• Knowledge of current issues and how they impact on professional practice
• Knowledge of risk management
• Knowledge of information governance requirements
• Experience working in a child development team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearper annum plus HCAS (pro rata if P/T)