NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area Health Visiting Service Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract 23 months (Secondment/Fixed Term Contract for 12 to 23 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 381-WC-7411300
Employer Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site SWB NHS Trust Town Sandwell Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/09/2025 23:59
Job overview
At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, we have a new and exciting opportunity within our well established Health Visiting Service. We are looking for innovative Registered NMC Nurses or Midwives with an interest in health visiting to work as a Healthy Child Practitioner to deliver a core programme to children, young people and families in SWB NHS Trust. This is a secondment/fixed term position to introduce the successful candidates to the role of the Health Visitor, with the opportunity to apply for the fully funded Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in Health Visiting. The HCP will work within the Health Visiting Service as part of the Acute and Community Paediatric Directorate. They will support and deliver the Universal Children’s services in line with the HCP 0-5 years.
Main duties of the job
Day to day relationship will be with other members of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, Administration Officers, patients, carers and multi-agency professionals.
Training and evaluation will be provided to enable the individual to develop the competence to function effectively within this role and will have exposure to the mandated contacts of a Health Visitor in order to help them to progress onto the Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) SCPHN in Health Visiting.
Mandatory contacts include;
* Antenatal visits
* 6-8 week contact
Other duties to include;
* Baby/Child weight reviews
* Health promotion and public health advice
* Maternal mental health support
* Support babies/children and their families with concerns or medical conditions
* Safeguarding
* Multi agency working
Working for our organisation
We are a progressive service who encourages innovative, forward thinking professionals, who are keen to embrace change and provide the best quality of care for communities.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We offer:
* Integrated team working
* Practice support and clinical/restorative supervision
* Access to wellbeing support
* Supportive induction package
* Excellent training package and access to training opportunities for professional development
* Opportunity to participate in work streams of interest
* Access to Trust benefits, including NHS Fleet Solutions car scheme
* Flexible working opportunities
As a Healthy Child Practitioner within Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) you will work within corporate teams who are supported by Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, a Health Visitor Contact Centre and are led and managed by Health Visitor Team Leaders and Clinical Lead for Health Visiting.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GCSE grade C/4 in Maths and English
* To have relevant Nursing/ Midwifery Degree
* Active registration as a nurse or midwife on the NMC register
* Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development
* To have Practice Supervisor or equivalent
Experience
* Experience relevant to post
* Audit/evaluation/research
* Experience of working in the community
* Experience relevant to post working with 0-5 years
* Recent post Registered Nurse experience
The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".
To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:
Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked Service Solution' approach across the four sites
Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Please note-If this vacancy receives a high number of applications, it will close before the stated closing date. Please ensure that you have completed and submitted your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
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