Whittington NHS Trust, with their outstanding reputation in safe, personal, coordinated care for their local community, is seeking a Band 6 Health Visitor to join their highly skilled team.
Known for being one of the safest hospitals in England, Whittington Health provides expert care for more than 500,000 local people and is valued by its local community. Alongside the main Whittington Hospital, they have 30 community locations in the north London boroughs of Islington and Haringey. A fantastic team of more than 4,400 specialist staff have an impressive outreach to community members across the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Camden, and maintain a professional and highly personable approach to all their patients.
Role
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP.
Responsibilities
* To manage a caseload of families. The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP To report to and be line managed by a Team Leader/CPT
* To be responsible for identifying need within a family. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities. This includes the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health in the community and the implementation and evaluation of individualised programmes of care.
* To be prepared to challenge within the Health Visiting team and with other agencies in an appropriate and open manner.
* To line manage junior members of staff, ensuring the completion of annual appraisals, 1 – 1s, and personal development of self and junior staff.
* Support staff with performance, ensuring that poor performance is addressed appropriately.
* To work in keeping with WH ICARE values.
* To support students and new starters.
* To deliver evidence based care, and to keep updated on health visiting practice.
* To ensure that junior staff and self-keep up to date with mandatory training and appraisal.
* To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
* To support and contribute to the implementation of a single point of contact, service developments, standard setting, clinical audit and benchmarking, to deliver needs-led evidence based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
* To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices in an area. To develop and deliver cooperative working arrangements with GP services that support healthy outcomes for children and their families, and facilitate partnership working.
* To be the principal point of contact for allocated Children’s Centres in an area. To develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements with Children’s Centres which supports healthy outcomes for children and their families, and facilitate partnership working across Children’s Centres and other partner organisations.
* To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all section of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
Requirements
* Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Willingness to develop and support management of change Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral.
* Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
* Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations Collect and monitor data as required.
* Management experience in a health service setting.
* Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme.
* The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
* Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
* Knowledge of infection control standards.
* Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
Benefits
We are so grateful for the hard-work and devotion of our Staff, so as a thank you we offer the following benefits:
* Flexible hours
* Access to free Bank Partners Core Skills training
* Ability to self-book shifts with a weekly pay system
* Opportunity to work with multiple cases across the community to gain invaluable experience
* Priority of shifts over all agency workers
* An open-door policy
* Competitive pay
Apply now for this superb opportunity by attaching your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in contact with you shortly.
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