Specialist HV/Midwife Pre and Post birth team

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Specialist HV/Midwife in a dynamic team focused on supporting families during the critical pre and post-birth periods. This role offers the chance to lead a multiagency team, ensuring high-quality care for mothers and babies while working collaboratively with local authorities. The position is part-time, allowing for flexibility, and is set within a supportive environment that values diversity and employee wellbeing. With a commitment to professional development and a strong focus on community health, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of families in Ilford.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing support

Award-winning equality and diversity initiatives

Qualifications

• Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and Midwife required.
• Minimum 2 years post-SCPHN qualification experience as a Health Visitor.

Responsibilities

• Lead the health element of a multiagency team for antenatal and postnatal support.
• Ensure effective risk management and supervise pre-registration students.

Skills

Assessment skills

Leadership

Safeguarding knowledge

Interagency working

Budget management

Teaching experience

Trauma-informed practice

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – Health Visitor

NMC registered Midwife

Masters degree or equivalent

Leadership programme

Job description

Specialist HV/Midwife Pre and Post birth team

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area: Health Visitor/midwife Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (secondment accepted)

Hours:

• Part time
• Flexible working

15 hours per week

Job ref: 395-RR135-24

Site: Lynton House

Town: Ilford

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum plus HCAS pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Visitor/midwife to take on a leadership role and join the new Pre and Post Birth Multiagency Team. The team will work jointly with Children's Social Care to offer an enhanced health visiting service throughout the antenatal period until 1 year post-birth. The team will be co-located within Lynton House in Ilford to ensure good multi-agency working.

The post holder will be a Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor and Midwife. The post holder will lead the health element of the multiagency team based within Redbridge local authority to support mothers, fathers, and babies during the antenatal and postnatal period up to the baby’s first birthday.

The post holder will support the development of the pre and post-birth multiagency team, working with the local authority. They will be an effective team member while working on their own initiative.

The post holder will work within the wider senior leadership team to deliver the vision of the Trust to provide a quality-led service that helps Babies, Children, Young People (BCYP), and their families to live and achieve the lives they want.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for ensuring the team is working to an agreed framework.
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others' workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To ensure that Healthy Child Programme mandated checks are maintained for designated caseload.
• To deputise when required in the operational lead's absence and delegate appropriately to the team.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly regarding the administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk, and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To supervise pre-registration students.
• To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
• To ensure that a strengths-based approach is applied when working with families.
• To be responsible for and effectively manage the budget related to the team.
• To influence service development resulting from audits and feedback.
• To deputise for the 8b Head of Service where required.
• To be an autonomous practitioner, with the ability to make decisions to benefit the service.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – Health Visitor
• NMC registered Midwife
• Level 4 Safeguarding
• Evidence of CPD
• Masters degree or equivalent
• Leadership programme

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post-SCPHN qualification, working actively as a Health Visitor
• Line management experience at band 7 or above
• Experience of using a strengths-based approach to care
• Experience of working with families with safeguarding needs
• Experience of working with babies, children, young people, and their families in the community setting.
• Caseload management of safeguarding – child protection
• Delivery of safeguarding supervision
• Experience of using trauma-informed practice
• Experience of interagency working
• Experience of managing HR issues
• Teaching experience
• Experience of managing a healthcare budget or equivalent

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Working Together to Safeguard Children
• Clinical knowledge of the principles underpinning effective Child Protection practice
• Knowledge of commissioning
• Expert knowledge of current practice relating to safeguarding children/child protection and think family

Skills

• Ability to assess babies, children, and young people using the assessment framework

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions, and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognized as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations, and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working-friendly organization, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part-time hours, or another flexible pattern.

We recognize the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community makes to our organization. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans, reservists, and military spouses, and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration.