Job summary
We have wonderful and
exciting opportunity in Tower Hamlets for Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) Specialist Practitioner to
join our 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in
improving health and wellbeing of children and families in Tower Hamlets by improving
the antenatal health, child health and developmental outcome and supporting
parents to Supporting parents to be future oriented and aspirational adapting
and parent effectively.
This is a part time role - 22.5 hours per week and fixed term contract until July 2025 with the possibility of extension.
Tower Hamlets is a stimulating place to work; it is
an area steeped in history and culture. The borough covers a diverse range of
localities, including most of the traditional East End, encompassing the
historic Tower of London, St Katherines docks and Canary Wharf and its
unmistakable skyline, one of the main financial centres in the UK. There are excellent transport links to and within
Tower Hamlets, including 7 Overground stations, 9 underground/tube stations, 17
DLR stations and 26 daytime bus routes.
We have excellent partnership working with Tower
Hamlets Public Health service, Children and Family Centres, Family Hubs; Early Help,
Voluntary/Charity Organisations. Primary and Secondary Schools, and General
Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health
outcomes for children and young people.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have the clinical knowledge
experience, expertise to support HVs to recruit vulnerable clients in the antenatal and the postnatal period (up to maximum of 6-8 weeks postnatal or up to
6-8weeks post-discharge for infants who are retained in hospital at birth for
postnatal care) engaging them and delivering until child turn two years of age.
Hold a small caseload of MECSH clients; Undertake home visits in
accordance with MECSH; and support the delivery of MECSH Programme components
and training to the Health Visitors, the HV skill mix, acting as a resource and
mentor to others in relation to MECSH clinical practice.
Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide
and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational
interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed
assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations
to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
Provides effective and timely support to Health Visitors
delivering the MECSH Programme in Tower Hamlets. To include provision of accurate and relevant advice and
exercising of significant judgement in appropriate interpretation of programme
and licence requirements in response to site needs.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting (MECSH) is a licenced intervention programme delivered within Tower Hamlets GPCG 0-19 Service. The MECSH Specialist Practitioner will work with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder and Health Visiting teams.
They will have the key responsibility to support the Health Visitors to effectively implement the MECSH Programme within their practice and work collaboratively with them to improve the equity and quality of child and family health service delivery.
They will support clinical practices for MESCH within the service through training, reflection, supervision, and case review and have a caseload of MECSH clients.
They will be responsible for the allocation of MECSH clients within the teams and act as a role model for practice.
They will provide MECSH training for new staff.
In partnership with key stakeholders:
Increase the boroughs MECSH offer by reviewing, developing, and implementing operational pathways to identify, recruit and deliver MECSH to families in Tower Hamlets in line with the fidelity of the program.
Support coordination and delivery of MECSH training for Health Visitors and MECSH Informed sessions for other professionals within the Health, Social Care and Early Years sector.
Deliver MECSH Supervision groups to foster a positive and collaborative team culture, promoting professional development and job satisfaction.
Implement mechanisms for ongoing program evaluation and quality assurance, collecting and analysing data to measure outcomes and impact.
Develop a strong partnership with relevant leads from MECSH UK and MECSH Australia contributing to successful program delivery in Tower Hamlets.
Contribute to the development of the Tower Hamlets Family Hubs and Best Start in Life offer for related workstreams, such as Perinatal Mental Health.
Main duties and responsibilities
CLINICAL DUTIES
- To hold a small caseload of MECSH clients
- Undertake home visits in accordance with MECSH
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
- Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with all members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- At all times keep the safety of the child and family in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Contribute to the Healthy Child Programme, including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
- Support the delivery of MECSH Programme components and training to Health Visitors.
- Actively contributes to the development of sound clinical practice in the delivery of the MECSH Programme.
- Acts as a resource and mentor to others in relation to MECSH clinical practice
- Provides effective and timely support to Health Visitors delivering the MECSH Programme in Tower Hamlets in accordance with licence and program requirements. To include provision of accurate and relevant advice and exercising of significant judgement in appropriate interpretation of programme and licence requirements in response to site needs.
- Provide monitoring through reflective supervision to Health Visitors to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To facilitate MECSH community groups.
- Development of MECSH documentation and materials in response to site needs.
- Contribute to and attend the ongoing MECSH Community of Practice Brief and yearly conference.
PROFESSIONALISM
- For the MECSH leads and Health Visitors to use the MECSH model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating Early Help Assessments (EHA) and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required.
- To be involved with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder in analysing reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness, and accuracy as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
TEACHING AND TRAINING
- Attend train the trainer programme to be able to provide training on MECSH
- Effective provision, identification, and development of MECSH training programmes with participant feedback.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation in line with NMC requirements.
- Participate in individual management/clinical/safeguarding supervision support and facilitate the training and development of team members who need to improve service delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Through mentorship and preceptorship
- Maintain contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and employer policies.
- Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice.
- Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
- Report any concerns regarding professional practice to the Locality Clinical Manager, Clinical Lead, or an appropriate other.
- Participate in complaint / incident investigation, problem solving and remedial action where necessary.
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk utilising expertise within or outside the organisation when needed.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements with particular attention to lone worker and manual handling policies.
RESEARCH
- Detailed and comprehensive documentation of MECSH implementation support processes is prepared in a timely manner to support research.
- To take part in audits, service reviews and research.
They will work collaboratively with the Health Visiting Locality Clinical Managers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting (MECSH) is a licenced intervention programme delivered within Tower Hamlets GPCG 0-19 Service. The MECSH Specialist Practitioner will work with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder and Health Visiting teams.
They will have the key responsibility to support the Health Visitors to effectively implement the MECSH Programme within their practice and work collaboratively with them to improve the equity and quality of child and family health service delivery.
They will support clinical practices for MESCH within the service through training, reflection, supervision, and case review and have a caseload of MECSH clients.
They will be responsible for the allocation of MECSH clients within the teams and act as a role model for practice.
They will provide MECSH training for new staff.
In partnership with key stakeholders:
Increase the boroughs MECSH offer by reviewing, developing, and implementing operational pathways to identify, recruit and deliver MECSH to families in Tower Hamlets in line with the fidelity of the program.
Support coordination and delivery of MECSH training for Health Visitors and MECSH Informed sessions for other professionals within the Health, Social Care and Early Years sector.
Deliver MECSH Supervision groups to foster a positive and collaborative team culture, promoting professional development and job satisfaction.
Implement mechanisms for ongoing program evaluation and quality assurance, collecting and analysing data to measure outcomes and impact.
Develop a strong partnership with relevant leads from MECSH UK and MECSH Australia contributing to successful program delivery in Tower Hamlets.
Contribute to the development of the Tower Hamlets Family Hubs and Best Start in Life offer for related workstreams, such as Perinatal Mental Health.
Main duties and responsibilities
CLINICAL DUTIES
- To hold a small caseload of MECSH clients
- Undertake home visits in accordance with MECSH
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
- Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with all members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- At all times keep the safety of the child and family in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Contribute to the Healthy Child Programme, including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
- Support the delivery of MECSH Programme components and training to Health Visitors.
- Actively contributes to the development of sound clinical practice in the delivery of the MECSH Programme.
- Acts as a resource and mentor to others in relation to MECSH clinical practice
- Provides effective and timely support to Health Visitors delivering the MECSH Programme in Tower Hamlets in accordance with licence and program requirements. To include provision of accurate and relevant advice and exercising of significant judgement in appropriate interpretation of programme and licence requirements in response to site needs.
- Provide monitoring through reflective supervision to Health Visitors to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To facilitate MECSH community groups.
- Development of MECSH documentation and materials in response to site needs.
- Contribute to and attend the ongoing MECSH Community of Practice Brief and yearly conference.
PROFESSIONALISM
- For the MECSH leads and Health Visitors to use the MECSH model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating Early Help Assessments (EHA) and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required.
- To be involved with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder in analysing reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness, and accuracy as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
TEACHING AND TRAINING
- Attend train the trainer programme to be able to provide training on MECSH
- Effective provision, identification, and development of MECSH training programmes with participant feedback.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation in line with NMC requirements.
- Participate in individual management/clinical/safeguarding supervision support and facilitate the training and development of team members who need to improve service delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Through mentorship and preceptorship
- Maintain contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and employer policies.
- Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice.
- Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
- Report any concerns regarding professional practice to the Locality Clinical Manager, Clinical Lead, or an appropriate other.
- Participate in complaint / incident investigation, problem solving and remedial action where necessary.
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk utilising expertise within or outside the organisation when needed.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements with particular attention to lone worker and manual handling policies.
RESEARCH
- Detailed and comprehensive documentation of MECSH implementation support processes is prepared in a timely manner to support research.
- To take part in audits, service reviews and research.
They will work collaboratively with the Health Visiting Locality Clinical Managers.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of key developments in Public Health and Children's Services and of MECSH programme outcome.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of partnership working and showing leadership to ensure services work collaboratively to agreed desired outcomes.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to child development, perinatal mental health, child protection.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to MECSH in practice, delivering supervision to individuals and groups.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to coach, give and receive feedback and develop others to reach their full potential.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of key developments in Public Health and Children's Services and of MECSH programme outcome.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of partnership working and showing leadership to ensure services work collaboratively to agreed desired outcomes.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to child development, perinatal mental health, child protection.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to MECSH in practice, delivering supervision to individuals and groups.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to coach, give and receive feedback and develop others to reach their full potential.
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.
