HV Clinical Lead (Early Childhood development)

Job summary

Are you interested in Early Childhood Development? Our Bright Start Islington Integrated Service has a Health Visitor Clinical Lead Vacancy working on Early Childhood Development.

The role takes a Clinical Lead in supporting the wider Bright Start Health Visiting teams to deliver Islington's key objectives identified and agreed in the Bright Start Strategy and the Islington Family Hub Start For Life action plans.

The role will work to ensure that the policy and procedures to deliver within an integrated service are well developed and evaluated to evidence a safe, effective, and quality service. This will be achieved through the establishment of a training framework and a quality assurance programme to support all staff.

The post holder will lead the implementation of Islington's Start For Life Workforce Pilot which aims to improve the quality of the Health Reviews, implement early identification of needs and support FHAs to provide targeted interventions. The post holder will lead on the role out of supervision to the FHA's delivering with the support of health visitor colleagues.

Reporting to the Operational Manager/Locality Manager they will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective Universal health provision and also evaluate the impact of the interventions offered.

You will be working within the Bright Start Central Health Visiting Team who will support your practice as a clinical lead.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme for a geographical area within the Bright Start locality carrying out evidence-based child and family health assessments and develop child/family health plans in partnership with families and other key partners.

To demonstrate a commitment to best practice in all aspects of child development and work with Bright Start Early Years Teams and other partners to embed the best practice in Islington, and Whittington Health as a whole.

To demonstrate and develop evidence-based knowledge, attitudes and skills to be able to be an expert resource for Bright Start teams, in particular in the area of Early Child Development and Parent-Infant Relationships

To assess local need and to plan, coordinate and deliver training programmes and workshops to Bright Start staff, and others as appropriate, to promote best practice standards in all aspects of Early Child Development.

To work with other specialist colleagues such as the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team, Infant Feeding team and SLC team.

To provide expertise and support to Family Health Advisors and Health Visitors working with families.

To take a lead role in working with the Islington Start For Life Workforce Development Pilot.

To work with the Start For Life Family Hub Home Learning workstream.

To work to develop integrated pathways with key partners such as, midwifery, CAMHS, Early Years settings and School Health Service.

About us

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 Trustbelieves 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.

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Bingfield Primary Care centre

Bingfield Street

Islington

N1 0AL

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Bingfield Primary Care centre

Bingfield Street

Islington

N1 0AL

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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