Job responsibilities
Purpose
The post holder will be a member of the
0-19 public health team delivering an evidenced based and needs led service for
children, young people and their families in line with the Healthy Child
Programme (HCP). Supported by the clinical team lead, the post holder will carry
continuing responsibility for the assessment of health needs, including the
development, implementation and evaluation/audit of evidence based
interventions. She/he will take responsibility for ensuring the quality and
standard of care and delivery of a service to improve outcomes for children and
families. The post holder will participate in delivering a universal core
service, and provide targeted interventions, to address health inequalities,
where necessary referring to specialist services. This role will also include
safeguarding responsibilities, mentorship of students (pre and post
registration), line management of a skill mixed 0-19 team and staff appraisals.
Principal
duties to include:
Work
collaboratively with the skill mixed health visiting team to ensure equity of
service provision, promoting good practice and the sharing of resources.
Prioritise own
work in line with areas of highest risk or client groups with greatest health
need, delegating other work to the wider skill mixed team whilst providing the
team with supervision and support
Facilitate
good team working, through effective leadership skills delegating and
supervising the work of a skill mixed team to ensure efficient delivery of the 0-5
HCP
Assist in
meeting public health targets e.g. teenage sexual health, accident prevention,
breast feeding, immunisation, smoking cessation and obesity
Undertake
continued responsibility for the management of a caseload
Build and
develop good working relationships with childrens centres, midwifery, GP
practices and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Work
collaboratively with all relevant agencies to influence/develop policies which
will enhance health
Be responsible
for organisation, prioritisation and planning of health promotion activities,
by assessing local health needs and promote key health topics to meet All our
health 2016 DH targets
Where
appropriate work with Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) Nurse
prescribing lead to prescribe in line with local and national policy
guidelines.
Make Every Contact Count with
children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, family centres, nurseries
Undertake well
child clinic sessions within agreed
venues and family centres
Assist in the
planning and where appropriate in the delivery of continence assessments
Identify and
support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support
and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services
Participate in
prevention and early detection of all categories of abuse in all age groups
Take
appropriate action in cases of suspected or actual child abuse, working within
Surrey safeguarding childrens code of practice and procedures
Attend child
protection conferences/core groups as required and contribute to the
development of the protection plans and decision making processes, within the
multi-agency setting
Participate in
safeguarding supervision
Ensure that
clear concise reports are written and that organisational record keeping
guidelines are adhered to
Assist in research, participate in clinical audit
and evaluation of service including the monitoring of records of others within
the 0-19 team
Undertake health needs assessments for children who are
looked after
Support and
attend group clinical supervision as per organisation policy
Actively
participating in steering groups to develop HV practice guidelines
Supervise
junior members of the skill mixed 0-19 team as directed by the Clinical Team Lead
and undertake junior staff Personal development Review (PDR) appraisals and
direct line management.
Contribute to
the pre and post registration opportunities made available to students across
CFHS, which may include supervision of student practice placements
Assess
practice competencies of junior staff members, contributing to their training
and development needs
Participate in
meetings as appropriate
Be prepared to
be flexible within contracted hours
Work in
accordance with the needs of the service, undertake other duties as required
within current skill set
Communication
skills (factor 1)
Be skilled at adapting language and
professional approach to a varied client group
Be proficient in designing, producing and presenting
health promotion sessions to differing sizes of groups
Be competent in writing concise accurate
contemporaneous client records using approved CFHS templates in line with NMC
guidelines.
Be competent at making referrals to the wider
multi-disciplinary team e.g. MASH
Demonstrate ability to produce child centred
reports for children who are subject to safeguarding plans or CIN/LAC reviews
Contribute ideas to discussions at professional
forum and team meetings
Lead at or chair team meetings in the absence
of the clinical team leader
Analytical
and judgemental skills (f3)
Able to understand complex family situations
and respond and refer appropriately
Be able to undertake health needs assessments,
using child centred approach to gather health information that identifies any
unmet health needs for children and families.
Collate population profiles within local
boroughs
Lead and participate on team/service audits
Planning
and organisational skills (f4)
Be responsible
for planning and maintaining up to date work diary
Organise and
allocate work to the skill mixed team
Support Health
Visitor and School Nurse team initiatives to deliver health promotion
activities and community based public health awareness events.
Where
appropriate work with CFHS Nurse prescribing lead to prescribe in line with
local and national policy guidelines
Prioritise
diary to meet needs of families on level 3-4 caseload and assure attendance at
safeguarding meetings and safeguarding supervision
Maintain
compliance with statutory and mandatory training
Share best
practice with colleagues from across CFHS, present ideas and initiatives at
Surrey Wide Professional Forums
Patient / client
care (f6)
Support and
adhere to organisation including infection control policy
Promote uptake
of immunisations: make every contact
count
Holistically
assess children and families
Work within
clinical pathway framework and own level of competency
Promote an
environment that is conducive to children and family engagement
Monitor
quality of service provision in partnership with clinical team lead
Be aware of Health
Visitor key performance indicators and
ensure associated client contacts are accurately recorded for reporting
purposes within the team
Escalate Health
Visitor practice concerns to clinical team lead
Identify own
training and development needs of others and undertake appropriate
training/education as required
Support I
want great care initiatives to acquire feedback from service users.
Policy
and service development (f7)
Work within CFHS policies and guidance
Contribute to
service and policy review and development of health visiting protocols and
guidance
Provide
statistical data to support commissioning requirements.
Lead on and
participate in clinical audits
Provide assistance
with the resolution of complaints within clinical speciality
Financial
and physical resources (f8)
Responsible
for care and safe keeping of medical devices, organisational property and
ethically manage organisations resources
Identify when equipment
or disposable resources need replacing and alert clinical team lead
.
Human
resources (f9)
Attend/facilitate
clinical supervision in line with organisational policy
Participate in
the appraisal process and agree personal development objectives
Participate in
training of others and maintain an effective learning environment
Maintain NMC
registration in line with revalidation requirements and abide with NMC Code of
Professional Conduct.
Provide
DBS documentation in line with
organisational procedure
Information
resources (f10)
Maintain record keeping in line with NMC and
organisational guidance
Ensure safe storage and access to IT systems to
protect confidentiality in line with organisational Information Governance
policy
Research
and development (f11)
Contribute/lead on organisational audits
Support evidence based practice and disseminate
learning to wider health visiting team members
Freedom
to act (f12)
Work to organisational policy and procedures
Work under direct and indirect supervision of Clinical
Team Lead
Supplementary
Information
This job description is not
exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake such other duties
from time to time as are consistent with the responsibility of the grade.
This job
description is subject to review and development from time to time in liaison
with the post holder. As an employee of Central Surrey Health Ltd you will be
required to adhere to all the organisations policies and procedures.
