Healthy Family Practitioner (30 hours per week)

NHS Jobs; Nebraska; On-site; USD 33,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

Free tea/coffee/milk

My Reward Hub discounts

Wages on-demand

Wellbeing support

Career development

Innovation funding

Job summary

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Healthy Family Practitioner to join the Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service on a 30-hour week. The role involves delivering delegated health reviews, supporting preschool and primary aged children and families in community settings, and working under supervision with health visitors and school nurses.

You will be autonomous, compassionate and able to engage with children and families, facilitating clinics,

Qualifications

• Has sound knowledge of child development and family health.
• Can work autonomously, confidently, and safely in community environments.
• Is compassionate, organised, and committed to delivering highquality care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver delegated mandated health reviews and developmental checks for children.
• Work confidently in community settings to support families.
• Facilitate health sessions and coordinate with nurseries and schools.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date records and contribute to service development.
• Participate in supervision, training, and safeguarding activities.

Skills

Child development knowledge

Autonomy

Compassionate care

Relationship building

Job description

Healthy Family Practitioner (30 hours per week)

Package Description: Make a difference to children and families across Lancashire by delivering compassionate, communitybased care. We are looking for a dedicated and proactive Health Family Practitioner to join our Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service. In this role, you will work under the direction of our Health Visitors (SCPHNHV), School Nurses (SCPHNSN) and Staff Nurses, supporting preschool and primaryaged children and their families. Your knowledge of child development and commitment to improving health outcomes will help deliver key elements of the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions based on need. You will provide care across a range of community settingsincluding lone working in family homesand will be expected to uphold HCRG Care Groups values by delivering excellent, compassionate care. This is a part-time opportunity (30 hours per week).

What Youll Do

• Deliver delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre1Year and 22.5Year developmental checks, identifying additional needs and referring into specialist services when required.
• Work confidently in community settings, using your own initiative to support families.
• Provide targeted support aligned to your competencies, such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated care packages.
• Facilitate Healthy Family DropIn sessions (Child Health Clinics) at designated community sites.
• Support the delivery of Bump, Birth and Beyond sessions.
• Act as a link to nursery settings, supporting early years staff and families.
• Ensure service user voices are captured and fed into service development.
• Contribute to and support risk assessments, ensuring safe working practices in line with health and safety and organisational policies.
• Promote engagement with children, young people and families acting as an advocate for their views and choices.
• Ensure inclusivity by using appropriate communication tools and services (e.g., language link workers, interpreters).
• Participate in the CAF process, attend meetings, and act as lead professional when appropriate.
• Maintain accurate, comprehensive, contemporaneous records, including data entry.
• Adhere to local lone working communication systems.
• Engage in supervision, appraisal, and take responsibility for your ongoing professional development.
• Complete all statutory, mandatory and rolespecific training.
• Use organisational resources efficiently and responsibly, reporting any concerns and supporting managers in effective resource use.

About You

• Has sound knowledge of child development and family health.
• Can work autonomously, confidently, and safely in community environments.
• Is compassionate, organised, and committed to delivering highquality care.
• Can build trusting relationships with children, families, and partners across education and health.
• Shares our values and is passionate about improving outcomes for young people.

What We Offer

• A salary of £27,674 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust