Health Visitor

Job summary

Permanent Health Visitor posts.

Various hours available across the 4 Blackburn with Darwen teams.

Location: To be confirmed on appointment

Team bases are:

Audley and Queens Park Children's Centre, Pringle Street, Blackburn

Livesey Children's Centre, Andrew Close, Blackburn

Darwen Childrens Centre, Lord St, Darwen

Little Harwood Childrens Centre, Robinson Street, Blackburn.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic motivated practitioners with initiative and drive who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service and to work as part of the integrated 0-19 Children & Family Health Service within the Blackburn & Darwen area to deliver the Healthy Child Programme.

You need to have excellent communication skills, be very organised and be willing to facilitate and support change in service delivery. You will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team.

For further details/informal visits please contact us on the details provided.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Children and Family Health Service and to provide strong clinical leadership and supervision to an integrated 0 -19 skill mixed team.

To provide family centred, evidence based public health service that promotes and improves health and addresses inequalities to a defined caseload, population or community. This will be achieved through delivery of the model of health visiting at a community, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus level. The role will promote safeguarding and effective risk management of children, young people and families.

Since 1 April 2017, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust has worked in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority and other voluntary and community sector providers to deliver the new, integrated, Healthy Child Programme. The new programme will build on previous achievements in the borough by bringing together health visiting, school nursing, specialist infant feeding and other services to be provided by partners in the third sector aiming towards achieving a consolidated public health service and improve outcomes and reducing health inequalities for children, young people and their families in our borough.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Darwen Childrens Centre

Blackburn

BB1 1SF

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Darwen Childrens Centre

Blackburn

BB1 1SF

Employer's website

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

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