Overview
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The closing date is 01 October 2025
Are you an experienced, newly qualified, or returning Health Visitor eager to make a real difference with the children, young people and families in Tameside?
Our Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) Service for Health Visiting and School Nursing has a vision to improve health outcomes for our population and influence the wider determinants of health, through collaboration with the people of Tameside and Glossop and our health and care partners. We are currently progressing through an exciting service transformation in conjunction with all of our team.
We work in neighbourhood models which align with these other services to best meet the needs for the community. Our staff teams are welcoming, friendly supportive and innovative, encompassing and valuing all our team members. Our visible Leadership team is positive in driving service improvement in a compassionate and collaborative way working with all teams to ensure we deliver high quality care in a supportive team environment.
You will provide compassionate, community-based support to children, young people, and families in Tameside in Greater Manchester, helping them stay healthy and avoid unnecessary hospital visits. You will be responsible for a caseload of children and deliver the Healthy Child Programme within a team. To ensure children receive the best start in life and school readiness is promoted.
Main duties of the job
You will lead and manage the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, work with complex cases including safeguarding. Identifying at the earliest opportunity children with Special Educational Needs and Disability - signposting and supporting children, young people and families whilst being leaders in public health. You will work in collaboration with our neighbourhoods, communities, voluntary and statutory agencies. We deliver the Greater Manchester Early Years Delivery Model and are committed to improving our school readiness rates.
About us
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Job responsibilities
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
The person specification below is not the full personspecification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Community Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing - Health Visitor (at Honours Degree, Diploma or masters Level)
Experience
* Working with people within clinic/home and community settings
Knowledge
* Knowledge and expertise of the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and surrounding public health priorities
Experience
* Community development experience in public health
Experience
* Initiating and managing change
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.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata per annum
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