Health Visitor

Central London Community Health Trust

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Job summary

Are you an experienced, newly qualified, retired, or returning Health Visitor eager to make a real difference?

We value fresh perspectives, collaboration, and a shared commitment to ensuring children, young people, and families receive the best care closer to home.

What You'll Do

Deliver High-Quality Care: You will provide compassionate, community-based support to children, young people, and families in the London boroughs of Brent and Ealing, helping them stay healthy and avoid unnecessary hospital visits
Collaborate in Diverse Teams: You will also work closely within our skill mix teams comprising of newly qualified, experienced, returning, and retired Health Visitors to develop and implement innovative approaches that ensure children receive the best start in life
Champion Community Health: An advocate for the vital role of community health professionals, you will ensure families receive care closer to home and benefit from an integrated, family-centered approach
Contribute to Service Development: You will help shape and refine our progressive service by identifying and implementing strategies that enhance patient outcomes and promote continuous improvement
Foster Personal and Professional Growth: You will thrive in an environment that supports your development and wellbeing, offering flexible working hours, ongoing training opportunities, and a robust leadership team committed to helping you become the best version of yourself

Main duties of the job

Are you looking to work in Ealing?

Situated in the vibrant heart of West London, the London Borough of Ealing offers a truly unique service. Our skilled and diverse team includes Health Visitors, Community Staff Nurses, School and Nursery Nurses, Early Start SEND workers, Social Workers, the Family Nurse Partnership, MECSH, the Child Healthy Weight Team, an Infant Feeding Team, Maternal Mental Health practitioners, MASH Health Visitor practitioners, and Borough-based Safeguarding Advisors.

We're proud to be UNICEF Stage 2 accredited and are eagerly preparing for our Stage 3 assessment. What's more, we're integrated with Ealing Local Authority and conveniently co-located in Children's Centres throughout the borough ensuring a supportive, collaborative environment for both families and staff.

An ideal candidate will:

Qualified (or currently training) as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN).
Skilled in health promotion initiatives and coordinating care plans.
Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment and up to date on recent primary care developments and health legislation
Enthusiastic about continuous learning and delivering high-quality care.
Organised, with strong time management and teamwork player.
Open to development and ready to grow within a supportive leadership structure.

About us

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.

Date posted

15 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

824-ONW-6790522-B

Job locations

Various sites - Acton, Southall and Northolt

London

Ealing

UB1 2JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse / Miwife with current UK NMC registration
Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards

Experience

Essential

Health visiting experience
Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
Experience of supervising staff / students
Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
Experience of evidence based care

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan etc.)
Current knowledge of child protection issues
Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
Be able to identify and access sources of information to inform practice
Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
Knowledge of NMC
Knowledge of clinical supervision
Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
Ability to be flexible and responsive to

Other

Essential

Able to travel round the locality[car/bike/public transport/foot]
Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer Service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse / Miwife with current UK NMC registration
Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards

Experience

Essential

Health visiting experience
Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
Experience of supervising staff / students
Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
Experience of evidence based care

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan etc.)
Current knowledge of child protection issues
Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
Be able to identify and access sources of information to inform practice
Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
Knowledge of NMC
Knowledge of clinical supervision
Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
Ability to be flexible and responsive to

Other

Essential

Able to travel round the locality[car/bike/public transport/foot]
Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer 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.