Job overview
Are you a SCPHN Health Visitor who is highly motivated with excellent team working and communication skills? If so, then we would love you to come and join us!
It’s an exciting time to be working in Milton Keynes 0-19 Universal Service. Skill mixed corporate teams, working across localities delivering the Healthy Child Programme within the framework of national and local targets, working in strong partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies.
We can offer you:
1. Recruitment and Retention bonus of 6% **T&C’s apply, further information given at interview **
2. A friendly, nurturing work environment that will support you in your practice and development
3. Full local induction with an allocated mentor
4. Preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff.
5. On site management support and supervision
6. Opportunities for leadership and career development
7. A clinical training programme to support your practice
8. A strong focus on staff wellbeing
9. Opportunities to engage in decisions that affect you and the services you provide,
10. Embedded program of clinical, management, and safeguarding supervision.
Main duties of the job
We would like to hear from you if you are SCPHN Health Visitor or a SCPHN Health Visitor Student due to qualify. We actively encourage any applicants to come and meet the 0-19 team.
Our service offer:
11. Undertake initial family health needs assessments
12. Identify vulnerable families and mobilise appropriate resources.
13. Prioritise workload to reflect a service based on reducing health inequalities.
14. Manage workload in a corporate way within the integrated team.
15. Ensure effective and equitable management of workload within the team.
16. Be pro-active in multi-agency networking and collaboration to improve life chances for all children.
17. Identify actual or safeguarding concerns following Multi-Agency Code of Practice, CNWL safeguarding and child protection policies.
18. Attend safeguarding meetings as required o
19. Work in partnership with vulnerable families to enable optimum health gains.
20. Undertake child/family assessments and agree programme of child health screening and health promotion activity.
21. Carry out specific health and developmental screening where identified or delegate responsibility to other team members.
22. Facilitate group work for agreed health promotion programmes.
Other Information:
You should have a relevant qualification in nursing, and be a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Practitioner (Health Visitor)
Our core hours of service are Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00.
Working for our organisation
Take a look at what its like to work in the Health Visiting team in MK
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CNWL - Milton Keynes is committed to providing quality health & social care services, tailored to the needs of individuals, public & private organisations, delivered close to home. Our services are designed to increase well-being & provide opportunities for recovery. We want our employees to feel valued, challenged & supported.
Our commitment as an employer & in accordance with the NHS constitution is to provide you with:
23. Buy & Sell Annual Leave
24. An attractive pension scheme
25. Employee Assistance programme: a free and confidential service to help with personal life
26. Physio Med: an education zone, advice line and treatment service for staff
27. Staff Wellbeing Zone for free and confidential online health and wellbeing programmes
28. The Recovery College: offers a range of health and wellbeing courses for staff
29. A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network Disabled Employees Network
30. Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network
31. Carers at Work Network
32. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BME)
33. Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust Benefits
34. Salary sacrifice
35. Travel discounts
36. Interest free season ticket loans
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Undertake initial family health needs assessments or delegate the responsibility where appropriate to other members of the team.
2. Identify vulnerable families and mobilise appropriate resources.
3. Prioritise workload to reflect a service based on reducing health inequalities.
4. Manage workload in a corporate way within the integrated team.
5. Ensure effective and equitable management of workload within the team.
6. Be pro-active in multi agency networking and collaboration to improve life chances for all children.
7. Offer Health Visitor expertise to clients within a community setting.
8. Manage and develop skill mixed staff within the integrated team.
9. Identify actual or suspected child abuse. Follow Milton Keynes Multi-Agency Code of Practice and Community Health Services child protection polices.
10. Attend child protection conferences and core groups as required or delegate responsibility where appropriate to other members of the team.
11. Work in partnership with vulnerable families to enable optimum health gains. Undertake risk assessments prior to home visits.
12. Undertake child/family assessments and agree programme of child health screening and health promotion activity.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI can be used as a support tool, not a replacement for the applicant’s own work. Applications must remain personal, accurate, and reflective of the candidate’s real experience. AI-generated content must not misrepresent skills, qualifications, or experience. Over reliance on AI-generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant's chances of success.
We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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39. Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.