Overview
Are you looking for a Health Visitor role that offers real variety, strong team support, and clear opportunities for development? At Slough Child and Family Wellbeing Services, you'll be part of a supportive and forward‑thinking team, with access to a structured development pathway including the opportunity to become a dual‑qualified SCPHN Nurse – and potential progression into strategic Band 7 and 8 roles. Our service offers a unique working environment where senior leaders, including our Managing Director, are highly visible and actively engaged. You'll feel genuinely heard, with the opportunity to share your ideas and shape the way we work. As a Health Visitor (Specialist Community Public Health Nurse), you'll lead and deliver high‑quality, proactive care in line with the Healthy Child Programme. Our mission is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children, and improve outcomes by working for the community, with the community.
Responsibilities
* Act as the public health lead for the health visiting skill‑mix team within a defined population or locality area
* Deliver the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme by assessing health needs, implementing targeted or personalised interventions, and delegating effectively to the wider skill‑mix team in an outcomes‑focused manner
* Take responsibility for the outcomes of children on child protection plans within your caseload, working in close collaboration with key partners to address identified public health needs
* Develop and maintain strong, professional relationships with families and key stakeholders, fostering effective partnership working
* Provide holistic care that supports the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and families particularly those on child protection plans through multi‑agency collaboration
* Promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, providing advice, signposting, and making referrals to partner agencies when appropriate
* Contribute to multi‑agency assessments of children and families, taking on the lead professional role where appropriate
* Co‑manage a caseload as part of a team of Health Visitors, working autonomously and taking full responsibility for the assessment, intervention, and outcomes of your allocated families
Salary
* Band 6 Salary and with NHS Pension and full AFC terms and conditions
Benefits
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 life's 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 as 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 you're 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
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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