About this role
Job summary Health Visitor Band 6 - Part time - 22.5 hrs ( 3 days) Barnet Health Visiting Team
We are looking for newly-qualified or experienced Health Visitors who want to grow and learn as part of a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice.
We can offer you friendly supportive teams, regular supervision and extensive evidence-based training with skills practice to carry out your role. We have an excellent support package in place for Newly Qualified Health Visitors, including preceptorship.
We provide opportunities for continuing professional development.
Main duties of the job
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP.
1. To manage a caseload of families. The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP.
2. To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
3. To line manage junior members of staff, ensuring the completion of annual appraisals, 1:1s, and personal development of self and junior staff. Support staff with performance, ensuring that poor performance is addressed appropriately.
4. To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
5. To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
6. To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Children's Centres in an area.
7. To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all sections of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description & person specification for further detail of the role and main responsibilities
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications Essential
Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register Educated to degree level or equivalent Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
Practice Assessor/Supervisor Training
Skills and Abilities Essential
Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral Willingness to develop and support management of change Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations Ability to work as part of a team Collect and monitor data as required
Desirable
Management experience in a health service setting
Knowledge and experience Essential
Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes
Personal qualities Essential
Work flexibly to address the needs of the service Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision Able to exercise initiative
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address Multiple Sites
Barnet
N31HF
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)