Eastwood Health and Care Centre
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is: 3 days 8.30-4.30pm, 1 day 8.30-4.06pm
Please note the salary is Pro Rata for part time hours.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Health Visiting service within the Children and Families service in East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership.
The Health Visitor is an autonomous practitioner who will practice within the legal and ethical framework of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and national legislation, and who has overall responsibility for the supervision/management of a health visiting caseload, being accountable for the quality of care delivered through robust assessment, referral and communication processes and implementation of evidence based practice interventions to address need. This includes responsibility for the day to day delegation and reviewing of work undertaken by team members.
The caseload size will be determined locally utilising the national weight load measurement tool as applied to the population of the HSCP within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and derived from the child population either within the GP practice/clusters/geographical locality. The Health Visitor will work collectively within multi-disciplinary/agency team to identify, plan for and address the wider Public Health needs of the health improvement agenda evidence based practice interventions to address need.
Skills required include the provision of highly specialised advice, parenting skills, health promotion, health education, psycho-social interventions and immunisation. At times high-level health visiting interventions are required when dealing with issues such as child protection, domestic abuse, addictions, peri-natal illness, and children affected by disability and/or life limiting illnesses. They will have a flexible strengths based approach, be innovative and quality orientated with an ability to respond positively to change.
The successful candidate will currently be a Registered Nurse with the NMC and have a qualification in Health Visiting or Public Health Nursing.
This post is based within the Eastwood team at Eastwood Health and Care Centre but may involve working in a variety of locations within East Renfrewshire and supporting the Barrhead team.
The health visitor will provide reciprocal cover and support for the wider health visitor caseloads in the absence of designated caseload holders in order to provide clinical leadership and ensure the continuation of service delivery.
Informal contact: Nicola Dooley, Team Lead, 07976930147
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process:
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