Job summary
We are looking for a enthusiastic Health Visitor to join our friendly team based in Woking and covering the Woking Borough of Surrey.
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.
UK Visa and Immigration Sponsorship: Please note that we do not offer UKVI sponsorship for these posts, and so all applicants require a current right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
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
Make Every Contact Countwith children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries
Identify and support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest
established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get
NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of
5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the
care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to
the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and
leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion,
Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called
The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are
heard at Board level.
CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused
individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from
all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for
and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named
individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 Countwith children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries
Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 Countwith children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries
Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (RN1)/ Registered Midwife Health Visitor
- SCPHN qualification
- Current NMC registration part 3 register Nurse prescriber (V100)
Desirable
- Registered nurse child branch
- Mentorship qualification
- Child protection supervisor
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Solihull Approach trained
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of personal development and acquisition of transferable skills relevant to the job description
- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and the children and families public health agenda
- Experience of initiating and participating in clinical audit and research
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to understand key element of change management in relation to childrens community public health services
Desirable
- Previous experience of leadership within a skill mixed team
- Recent relevant experience of working with children and families
- Completion of safeguarding modules
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and demonstrate ability to delegate work appropriately
- Track record of broad clinical skills demonstrated through personal development
- Teaching and facilitation skills Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with other both internal and external partner agencies
- Work under pressure and demonstrate ability to change priorities at short notice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to recognise and respond appropriately to children and their families in challenging situations
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-agency team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (RN1)/ Registered Midwife Health Visitor
- SCPHN qualification
- Current NMC registration part 3 register Nurse prescriber (V100)
Desirable
- Registered nurse child branch
- Mentorship qualification
- Child protection supervisor
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Solihull Approach trained
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of personal development and acquisition of transferable skills relevant to the job description
- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and the children and families public health agenda
- Experience of initiating and participating in clinical audit and research
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to understand key element of change management in relation to childrens community public health services
Desirable
- Previous experience of leadership within a skill mixed team
- Recent relevant experience of working with children and families
- Completion of safeguarding modules
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and demonstrate ability to delegate work appropriately
- Track record of broad clinical skills demonstrated through personal development
- Teaching and facilitation skills Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with other both internal and external partner agencies
- Work under pressure and demonstrate ability to change priorities at short notice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to recognise and respond appropriately to children and their families in challenging situations
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-agency team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
