Job summary
An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, motivated, and innovativeHealth Visitors to join our experienced and established skill mixed teams withinChildren and Family Health Surrey based either within Guildford Borough at the JarvisCentre Stoughton Rd, or Waverley Borough at Farnham Hospital.
We are looking for a strong team player who has a real passion forworking with children and families. You will need to have excellentcommunication and interpersonal skills, leadership qualities and the ability towork effectively with other teams and agencies. You will also have a soundknowledge and understanding of children, young people and their families and theability and drive to deliver the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to a diversepopulation across defined geographical areas around the Borough.
We are committed to the care and development of ourstaff and whether you are an experienced health visitor or newly qualified weoffer support and preceptorship as needed. This post is subject to aprobationary period.
We take great pride in nurturing our staff, children and families and inbuilding exceptional teams. The role is Monday to Friday in which we can offersome flexibility around hours. It is a client facing role but with room forsome home working based on service need.
For an informal chat about the above post please do contact Lenni Hide(Clinical Team Lead) Tel: 07989671961 or Jean Mukarati, Clinical Team Lead, 07788445533
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached Job Description and personal specification formore details and requirements for the role.
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About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level.CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
P ri ncipal duties
Work collaboratively with the skill mixed health visiting team to ensure equity of service provision, promoting good practice and the sharing of resources.
Prioritise own work in line with areas of highest risk or client groups with greatest health need, delegating other work to the wider skill mixed team whilst providing the team with supervision and support
Facilitate good team working, through effective leadership skills delegating and supervising the work of a skill mixed team to ensure efficient delivery of the 0-5 HCP
Assist in meeting public health targets teenage sexual health, accident prevention, breast feeding, immunisation, smoking cessation and obesity
Undertake continued responsibility for the management of a caseload
Build and develop good working relationships with childrens centres, midwifery, GP practices and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Work collaboratively with all relevant agencies to influence/develop policies which will enhance health
Be responsible for organisation, prioritisation and planning of health promotion activities, by assessing local health needs and promote key health topics to meet All our health 2016 DH targets
Where appropriate work with Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) Nurse prescribing lead to prescribe in line with local and national policy guidelines.
Make Every Contact Count with children, and their families in a variety of community settings home, children centres, nurseries
Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children centres
Assist in the planning and where appropriate in the delivery of continence assessments
Identify and support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services
Participate in prevention and early detection of all categories of abuse in all age groups
Take appropriate action in cases of suspected or actual child abuse, working within Surrey safeguarding childrens code of practice and procedures
Attend child protection conferences/core groups as required and contribute to the development of the protection plans and decision making processes, within the multi-agency setting
Participate in safeguarding supervision
Ensure that clear concise reports are written and that organisational record keeping guidelines are adhered to
Assist in research, participate in clinical audit and evaluation of service including the monitoring of records of others within the 0-19 team
Undertake health needs assessments for children who are looked after
Support and attend group clinical supervision as per organisation policy
Actively participating in steering groups to develop HV practice guidelines
Supervise junior members of the skill mixed 0-19 team as directed by the Clinical Team Lead and undertake junior staff Personal development Review (PDR) appraisals and direct line management.
Contribute to the pre and post registration opportunities made available to students across CFHS, which may include supervision of student practice placements
Assess practice competencies of junior staff members, contributing to their training and development needs
Participate in meetings as appropriate
Be prepared to be flexible within contracted hours
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
1. Ability to prioritise own and
2. teams workload and
3. demonstrate ability to
4. delegate work appropriately
5. Track record of broad
6. clinical skills demonstrated
7. through personal
8. development
9. Teaching and facilitation
10. skills
11. Excellent verbal and written
12. communication skills
13. Ability to recognise and
14. respond appropriately to
15. children and their families in
16. challenging situations
17. Good IT skills
18. Car Driver
19. Able to develop, establish
20. and maintain positive
21. relationships with other both
22. internal and external partner
23. agencies
24. Work under pressure and
25. demonstrate ability to
26. change priorities at short
27. notice
Desirable
28. Experience of working
29. within a multi-agency
30. team
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
31. Evidence of personal
32. development and
33. acquisition of transferable
34. skills relevant to the job
35. description
36. Understanding of current
37. issues affecting the NHS
38. and the children and
39. families public health
40. agenda
41. Experience of initiating and
42. participating in clinical audit
43. and research.
44. Experience of working
45. within multi-disciplinary
46. teams
47. Ability to understand key
48. element of change
49. management in relation to
50. childrens community public health services
Desirable
51. Registered Nurse child
52. branch or Midwife,
53. Mental Health Training
54. Mentorship qualification
55. Child protection
56. supervisor
57. Clinical supervision
58. facilitator
59. Solihull Approach trained
Qualifications
Essential
60. Registered nurse (RN1)
61. Health Visitor SCPHN
62. qualification
63. Current NMC registration
64. part 3 register
65. Nurse prescriber (V100
Desirable
66. Registered nurse child
67. branch or Midwife
68. Mentorship qualification
69. Child protection
70. supervisor
71. Clinical supervision
72. facilitator
73. Solihull Approach trained