Job Overview
Come and join Leicestershire Partnership Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment! An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor); the post holder will work within the Healthy Together Helpline team, supporting delivery of the single point of access service for 0-19 (Leicester City) and 0-11 (Leicestershire and Rutland). This role is a clinical office based post, delivering aspects of the healthy child programme via telephone, text messaging and digital services. Healthy Together support agile working, however it is a requirement of this post to work a minimum of the 50% of contracted hours from office base to ensure safe service delivery.
What you'll be doing:
* Contributing to improving access and identifying health needs.
* Improving outcomes and reducing health inequalities by providing a comprehensive service to meet the needs of local children and their families.
* Through a whole family approach, the focus will be on prevention of ill health, promotion of positive health and well-being and working collaboratively with the wider community, making a real difference to people’s lives.
What we're looking for:
* An excellent team player, who is hardworking, empathetic, and committed to delivering outstanding patient care.
Contact Details: Morwenna Talbot; morwenna.talbot@nhs.net; 07919 154235
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
* Answering telephone calls from parents, young people and professionals into the Helpline, using ignite telephone system. Offering support for queries such as minor illnesses, infant feeding, emotional wellbeing, behaviour etc. Completing agency checks and participating in virtual safeguarding meetings.
* Contribute to the assessment of antenatal contacts, including completing antenatal contacts by telephone.
* Contribute to the triage of A&E attendances and hospital discharges within agreed Trust guidelines, following up priority and potentially vulnerable children, young people and families.
* Responding to parents and young people who are contacting Healthy Together via the ChatHealth text messaging system.
* Maintain accurate electronic patient records.
* Participate in supervision and maintain professional accountability.
* Liaison with other members of 0-19/0-11 public health teams to handover or co-ordinate care of children or young people.
For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.