Job summary
Health Visitor Band 6 salary negotiable within £34,961 to £42,010 - including 15% HCA. Plus an additional 5% recruitment and retention. Please telephone for further information
Have you heard about the transformation of our Health Visiting Service in Haringey?
Main duties of the job
We are looking for practitioners who want to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme this year to the families in Haringey.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.
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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for practitioners who want to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme this year to the families in Haringey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for practitioners who want to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme this year to the families in Haringey.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Willingness to develop and support management of change
- Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
- Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely
- Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
- Collect and monitor data as required
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Knowledge of infection control standards.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
Desirable
- Management experience in a health service setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Must have ability to build professional and personal credibility
- Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
- Able to exercise initiative
- Self - motivated
- Work flexibly to address the needs of the service
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Willingness to develop and support management of change
- Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
- Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely
- Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
- Collect and monitor data as required
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Knowledge of infection control standards.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
Desirable
- Management experience in a health service setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Must have ability to build professional and personal credibility
- Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
- Able to exercise initiative
- Self - motivated
- Work flexibly to address the needs of the service
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
