Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive?Do you want to make a real difference across the 05 age group as part of a friendly, dedicated 019 team?
We’re looking for a committed and caring Healthy Family Practitioner to join our Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service. Based primarily within our Duty Team, you’ll play a vital role in responding to parent/carer enquiries, offering evidence-based guidance, and supporting the smooth running of our service under the direction of a Health Visitor or Team Leader.
If you’re a compassionate communicator with a strong grounding in child development, this could be your perfect next step.
Main duties of the job
* Provide timely responses to queries via phone or virtual platforms. Topics may inc feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor ailments, behaviour and general parenting support.
* Undertake initial assessments and triage, coordinating onward referrals to HVs, HFPs or services such as SALT, physiotherapy, smoking cessation or sexual health.
* Offer follow-up calls to monitor family progress and outcomes.
* Liaise with other professionals as directed by the HV or Team Leader.
* Recognise, document and elevate safeguarding concerns.
* Maintain accurate and contemporaneous electronic health records.
* Support Team Leaders by communicating staff changes, cancellations or sickness reports.
* Carry out any delegated tasks to support smooth service delivery.
* Completing delegated Healthy Child Programme contacts.
* Facilitating Healthy Family DropIns / Child Health Clinics within local Family Hubs.
* Providing targeted interventions including behaviour management, infant feeding and sleep support.
* Helping deliver Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions.
* Acting as a link to nurseries and early years settings.
* Participating in CAF/Early Help processes and acting as lead professional when appropriate.
* Identify and raise safeguarding concerns in line with policy.
* Participate in risk assessments relating to staff, clients and environments.
* Follow lone working, infection control and health & safety procedures.
* Report incidents, accidents and near misses promptly.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we may need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* A salary of £26,712 with access to our group pension
* 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 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
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.
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