Job summary
Band 6 Health Visitor
Are you a passionate Health Visitor eager to make a transformative impact on families and children during their crucial first five years? If so, we have an incredible opportunity just for you!
Join us at the Barnet 0-19 Service, now proudly a part of Whittington Health Trust, which serves vibrant communities across five North London boroughs.
Why Choose Us?
Be Part of a Diverse and Dynamic Community: Barnet is a bustling, richly diverse borough where you'll find endless opportunities to collaborate with a variety of partners and make a real difference.
Integrated, Supportive Team: Our 0-19 Service team is friendly, supportive, and united by a common goal - to put children and their families at the heart of everything we do.
Innovative Training and Development: We believe in continuous growth. Benefit from our robust training programs and stimulating professional development opportunities designed to expand your skillset.
Flexible Working: We understand the importance of work-life balance. We can support you with flexible working arrangements where suitable.
Prioritising Your Wellbeing: At Whittington Health, your wellbeing is our priority. You can access a wide range of support and resources to ensure you're always at your best.
Main duties of the job
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.
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
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.
- 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.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
- 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.
- To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
- To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Childrens Centres in an area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
- 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.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
- 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.
- To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
- To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Childrens Centres in an area.
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).
