Health Visitor - 0-19 Service Waltham Forest

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

The closing date is 22 April 2025

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Job summary

Are you a qualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor or a student SCPHN Health Visitor, qualifying in the next few months ?

Do you have:

  • Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
  • A willingness to train and progress.
  • Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
  • Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
  • Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.

We offer our health visitors:

  • Excellent pay package.
  • Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.
  • Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.
  • Preceptorship for newly qualified Health Visitors, competency-based learning and supportive mentoring.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for enthusiastic and proactive practitioners with strong initiative and a passion for contributing to the continuous development of our service. You will work in close partnership with Children and Family Centres, schools, and other key agencies to ensure a holistic approach to care.

We have within Waltham Forest excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated Health Visitors who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.

We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you, is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care, supporting children, young people and families have the best start in life delivered by outstanding people.

We have excellent partnership working with Waltham Forest Public Health Service, Primary and Secondary Schools, and General Practitioners to enable the Best Start in life and optimisation of health outcomes for children and young people.

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.

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

Date posted

08 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year Including Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-25-0022

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Deliver the Healthy Child Programme, conducting mandated contacts and providing tailored support to families.

  • Work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team, ensuring seamless service delivery.

  • Contribute to safeguarding children and young people, adhering to local and national guidelines.

  • Collaborate with multi agency professionals to address complex needs and improve outcomes.

  • Facilitate and support service development and change initiatives.

  • Effectively manage a caseload, including universal and targeted populations, ensuring equitable service provision.

  • Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to colleagues and students, fostering a supportive learning environment.

  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records, adhering to data protection and confidentiality policies.

  • Participate in health promotion activities and community engagement initiatives.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Deliver the Healthy Child Programme, conducting mandated contacts and providing tailored support to families.

  • Work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team, ensuring seamless service delivery.

  • Contribute to safeguarding children and young people, adhering to local and national guidelines.

  • Collaborate with multi agency professionals to address complex needs and improve outcomes.

  • Facilitate and support service development and change initiatives.

  • Effectively manage a caseload, including universal and targeted populations, ensuring equitable service provision.

  • Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to colleagues and students, fostering a supportive learning environment.

  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records, adhering to data protection and confidentiality policies.

  • Participate in health promotion activities and community engagement initiatives.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse, Childrens Nurse, Midwife or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration.
  • Educated to degree or Masters level.
  • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (Health Visiting).
  • Nurse Prescribing qualification (NMC V100).

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of ensuring that clinical practice is based on sound evidence and audit.
  • Experience of quality improvement processes.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to child development, perinatal mental health, child protection.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of key developments in children's services.
  • Knowledge of the requirements of CQC.
  • Ability to understand, implement clinical governance principles and process including risk management, audit & public involvement.
  • Understanding of key professional nursing issues and strategy documents.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to manage and prioritise a caseload.
  • Ability to reflect on practice.
  • Analytical skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to engage effectively with supervision including clinical and safeguarding children.
  • A range of clinical skills including assessment of development, health and identification of vulnerable children and their families.
  • Ability to deal with and resolve conflict & ambiguity.
  • Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise, delegate and work in a self-directed way.
  • Competent in the use of Information Technology.

Other requirements

Essential

  • Able to present information written and orally, in a clear and logical manner.
  • Commitment to working in partnership with children and families to understand their perception of care needs.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse, Childrens Nurse, Midwife or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration.
  • Educated to degree or Masters level.
  • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (Health Visiting).
  • Nurse Prescribing qualification (NMC V100).

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of ensuring that clinical practice is based on sound evidence and audit.
  • Experience of quality improvement processes.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Experience of specialist knowledge with reference to child development, perinatal mental health, child protection.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of key developments in children's services.
  • Knowledge of the requirements of CQC.
  • Ability to understand, implement clinical governance principles and process including risk management, audit & public involvement.
  • Understanding of key professional nursing issues and strategy documents.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to manage and prioritise a caseload.
  • Ability to reflect on practice.
  • Analytical skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to engage effectively with supervision including clinical and safeguarding children.
  • A range of clinical skills including assessment of development, health and identification of vulnerable children and their families.
  • Ability to deal with and resolve conflict & ambiguity.
  • Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise, delegate and work in a self-directed way.
  • Competent in the use of Information Technology.

Other requirements

Essential

  • Able to present information written and orally, in a clear and logical manner.
  • Commitment to working in partnership with children and families to understand their perception of care needs.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Interim Operational Lead

Bernadett Chabata

b.chabata1@nhs.net

Date posted

08 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year Including Outer HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-25-0022

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF


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