Job overview
Health Visitor Band 6 - Part time - 22.5 hrs ( 3 days)
Barnet Health Visiting Team
We are looking for newly-qualified or experienced Health Visitors who want to grow and learn as part of a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice.
We can offer you friendly supportive teams, regular supervision and extensive evidence-based training with skills practice to carry out your role. We have an excellent support package in place for Newly Qualified Health Visitors, including preceptorship.
We provide opportunities for continuing professional development.
Main duties of the job
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP.
1.To manage a caseload of families. The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP.
2.To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
3.To line manage junior members of staff, ensuring the completion of annual appraisals, 1:1s, and personal development of self and junior staff. Support staff with performance, ensuring that poor performance is addressed appropriately.
4.To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
5.To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
6.To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Children’s Centres in an area.
7.To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all sections of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description & person specification for further detail of the role and main responsibilities
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
2. Educated to degree level or equivalent
3. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
4. Practice Assessor/Supervisor Training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
5. Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
6. Willingness to develop and support management of change
7. Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
8. Ability to work as part of a team
9. Collect and monitor data as required
Desirable criteria
10. Management experience in a health service setting
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
11. Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
12. Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
13. Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
14. The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
15. Work flexibly to address the needs of the service
16. Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
17. Able to exercise initiative
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
18. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
19. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
20. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
21. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
22. Participate in required training and supervision.
23. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.