Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6

HCRG Care Group

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Job summary

Job purpose Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors) work within Wiltshire Childrens Community Services to lead and deliver a high quality, proactive service for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.

This role will be base atone of threelocality hubs inWiltshire

Trowbridge/Melksham/Bradford on Avon

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities

To deliverthe universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs
Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.

Leadership and Communication skills

To develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other health visitors through project development and further training.
To use evidence-based practice to develop and maintain high quality and cost effective standards for Specialist Public Health Nurse/health visiting practice.
To provide management and leadership to community nursery nurses and other skill mix team members including allocation meetings, delegation of the mandated visits of the Healthy Child Programme, interventions caseload monitoring and support.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

08 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/53790/10521

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Yeovil

Somerset

BA22 9QZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role will be based in Wiltshire and as aSpecialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6youll be part of our valued team atwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards:with a numberof our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job description

Job responsibilities

£35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards:with a numberof our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Person Specification

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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.