Job summary
Are you highly motivated and an experienced Health Visitor if so, an exciting opportunity has arisen within our Strengthening Families team. As a Specialist Health Visitor, you will have a vital role in supporting families with highly complex needs. You will hold a small caseload of families receiving specialist and targeted services under the Healthy Child Programme. The applicant must be able to deal with complex situations which require analysis and comparisons of a range of options on a daily basis.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be employed as part of the Specialist Health Visiting Team and work within a diverse, multi-ethnic, deprived, highly mobile, urban population.
He/she will have the knowledge and skills to identify risk factors and hold a caseload of families that are complex in nature. To work in partnership with families who may be new to the country, parents with mental health, drug, alcohol and/or domestic abuse problems, that may be living within temporary accommodation and find it difficult or are reluctant to access existing services.
The post holder will have responsibility for identifying transient families, undertaking core assessments to determine need, co-ordinate family health plans and deliver care to ensure additional targeted support is provided, to improve outcomes, for some of the most vulnerable families in the local population
About us
Why colleagues think we are "a great place to work!"
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! -https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, youll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- Werecommitted to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! -https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, youll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- Werecommitted to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
CARE values
Essential
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential
- RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities)
- NMC registration
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in Health Visiting
- Evidence of Leadership training/CPD
- Relevant post graduate education masters
- Evidence of having undertaken training in health promotion and public health specific to the position such as domestic abuse and substance misuse
- Willing to undertake further personal and professional development required to fulfil the role
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in the community relevant to health visiting
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with vulnerable and hard to reach groups. Developed through training and practice.
- Caseload holder including children subject to a Child Protection Pla
- Expert in family and child health and development
- Experience of facilitating group work and/or training
- Multi-agency working with vulnerable families
- Implementing innovative practice
- Experience of delivering teaching to students or groups
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Knowledge of and contribution to clinical governance framework
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates skills in leadership, diplomacy and negotiations
- Able to establish successful partnerships with stakeholder groups and organisations
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective engagement within highly challenging situations and environments
- Analyses and defines problems, generates and implements solutions that work across existing boundaries
- Ability to work autonomously, setting own priorities and meeting targets and be emotionally resilient
- Ability to produce written reports about complex family situations of a standard to be shared with the multi-agency child protection team and the court service.
- Ability to be flexible and respond to service need
- Demonstrates a comprehensive and sensitive understanding of diversity, equality, cultural and anti-discrimination practice
- Demonstrates effective team and collaborative working
- Ability to enable others to feel empowered, to challenge practice and behaviours to bring about change
- Evidence of ability to influence and motivate others
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Good networking skills
- Confident decision maker
- Ability to undertaking audit and analyse results and write up recommendations
- IT Skills - ability to use Microsoft Office packages
Special circumstances
Essential
- Ability and willingness to travel to multiple sites across the Trust
- The post requires a degree of agility and the ability to carry and manoeuvre light to moderate loads
- Reliable, trustworthy and demonstrates professional integrity
Person Specification
CARE values
Essential
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential
- RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities)
- NMC registration
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in Health Visiting
- Evidence of Leadership training/CPD
- Relevant post graduate education masters
- Evidence of having undertaken training in health promotion and public health specific to the position such as domestic abuse and substance misuse
- Willing to undertake further personal and professional development required to fulfil the role
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in the community relevant to health visiting
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with vulnerable and hard to reach groups. Developed through training and practice.
- Caseload holder including children subject to a Child Protection Pla
- Expert in family and child health and development
- Experience of facilitating group work and/or training
- Multi-agency working with vulnerable families
- Implementing innovative practice
- Experience of delivering teaching to students or groups
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Knowledge of and contribution to clinical governance framework
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates skills in leadership, diplomacy and negotiations
- Able to establish successful partnerships with stakeholder groups and organisations
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective engagement within highly challenging situations and environments
- Analyses and defines problems, generates and implements solutions that work across existing boundaries
- Ability to work autonomously, setting own priorities and meeting targets and be emotionally resilient
- Ability to produce written reports about complex family situations of a standard to be shared with the multi-agency child protection team and the court service.
- Ability to be flexible and respond to service need
- Demonstrates a comprehensive and sensitive understanding of diversity, equality, cultural and anti-discrimination practice
- Demonstrates effective team and collaborative working
- Ability to enable others to feel empowered, to challenge practice and behaviours to bring about change
- Evidence of ability to influence and motivate others
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Good networking skills
- Confident decision maker
- Ability to undertaking audit and analyse results and write up recommendations
- IT Skills - ability to use Microsoft Office packages
Special circumstances
Essential
- Ability and willingness to travel to multiple sites across the Trust
- The post requires a degree of agility and the ability to carry and manoeuvre light to moderate loads
- Reliable, trustworthy and demonstrates professional integrity
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).
