Overview
Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community? If so, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for a Healthy Family Practitioner to join our Lancashire 0-19 Health Visiting Team. This is a part-time opportunity working 22.5 hours per week.
Who you are: You thrive in a team environment, are compassionate and proactive, and are motivated by making a positive difference to families across Lancashire.
As a Healthy Family Practitioner with HCRG Care Group, you will be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team focused on clinical excellence and high-quality care. Your work will have a meaningful impact through facilitating parenting groups, providing 1:1 guidance to families, supporting children to achieve their potential, and helping service users and staff feel the difference we make.
Responsibilities
* Carrying out delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre-1 Year and 2-2.5-Year Developmental Checks.
* Identifying children who may need additional support and referring into specialist services.
* Providing targeted support on areas such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated packages of care.
* Working closely with parents and carers to support child development and wellbeing.
* Supporting the delivery of Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions across the East locality (5.30-7.30pm).
* Facilitating parenting groups.
* Providing 1:1 guidance to families and supporting children to achieve their potential.
Qualifications and Essential Experience
* NNEB qualification or equivalent (e.g., BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing, NVQ Level 3 Childcare & Education, Foundation Degree in Early Years/Education).
* Experience in health promotion or public health activities.
* Teamworking experience and ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.
* Awareness of safeguarding and child protection.
* Strong understanding of child development and parenting.
* Flexible approach to meet service needs and ability to maintain high standards of documentation.
* Ability to contribute to audits and research; competence in creating and implementing family-centred action plans.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills; IT literacy (local and web-based systems).
* Commitment to continuous learning and development; understanding of clinical governance.
* Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
Requirements and Working Arrangements
Full role details and responsibilities as described above. The role involves safeguarding and safer working practices; all appointments are subject to safer recruitment processes including disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Benefits
* A salary of £27,674 with access to our group pension.
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, with discounts on everyday purchases and cashback offers.
* Access to wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies.
* Support for mental and physical wellbeing, including resources for healthy living, post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, and career coaching.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through The Learning Enterprise.
* An open, just culture encouraging ideas to improve delivery of our purpose, supported by ringfenced innovation funding each year.
We are an equal opportunities employer and a Disability Confident Committed company. We welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.
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