Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor)
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Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor)
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Working as part of the Health Visiting Team, you will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in accordance with national and local strategy/guidance. This will include the provision of antenatal and postnatal period programmes conducting universal mandated checks and packages of care in line with evidence based practice.
You will work in partnership with partner agencies in the identification and protection of vulnerable children and contribute to the development of care plans, working in accordance with local and professional guidelines. Health Visitors will contribute to the completion of agreed outcomes for delegated Children Protection cases as per agreed multi-agency care plane ensuring regular communication with caseload holder.
The Health Visiting service operates an open access service to children and families within home, community and primary care settings to promote a healthy lifestyle within the local population giving particular attention to the identified health needs of the locality, and target groups such as children 0-5 years, and vulnerable families, as such you will work with both children and adults.
To address inequalities in health, through participation, collaboration, empowerment and primary care, the Health Visiting service will deliver the agreed range of planned universal services, assess health needs, identify vulnerability and deliver targeted interventions to meet the needs of children and their families/ carers.
Health Visitors work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.
* Health visitors are expected to be kind, responsive and professional, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:
* Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
* Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
* Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with them.
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 HCPs work as part of a team and contribute to its success by being a role model, supervising more junior members of the team (Qualified and unqualified) and students to ensure they are working to the professional standards required and provide leadership within the team.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karen Smith Job title: District Manager Email address: karensmith11@nhs.net
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