Health Visitor and Clinical Quality Fellow
Central London Community Health Trust
The closing date is 07 May 2025
Job summary
Leading, influencing and delivering a comprehensive Health Visiting service in line with the Healthy Child Programme and local service specifications for health visiting that meets the public health needs of local communities.
You will undertake the Health Visitor role for 80% of your clinical time. 20% of your role will be dedicated to working within a structured 6-9 month work-based programme working under the supervision of the Public Health Nurse Consultant. You will identify, design and manage a project focusing on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
- Focus on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities
- Measure, monitor and report population health and wellbeing; health needs, risks, and inequalities; for a specific chosen area of your work
- Audit, evaluate and re-design services and interventions for a specific chosen area of your work to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities
- Work with, and through, policies and strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities
Main duties include:
- Clinical Duties
- Management and Leadership
- Quality and Performance
About us
Just as we care about our patients' well-being, 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(only available for Band 5 and up)
- 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
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/Health Visitor (SCPHN) with current UK NMC registration
- 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 of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
- Experience of evidence based care
- Experience of supervising staff / students
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Knowledge of current health legislation, including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan etc.
- Current knowledge of child protection issues
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Key Attributes
Essential
- Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Health Visitor (SCPHN) with current UK NMC registration
- 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 of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
- Experience of evidence based care
- Experience of supervising staff / students
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Knowledge of current health legislation, including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan etc.
- Current knowledge of child protection issues
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Key Attributes
Essential
- Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
