Health Visitor

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Level 8 (AfC Band 6 equivalent) Health Visitor, you'll be part of our valued team at Southend City Council.

You will lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity, Universal, Targeted, and Specialist.

To promote the health of all children and young people, especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the opportunity to achieve optimum development.

To Identify, prioritise, develop, and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence-based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families and groups utilising best available evidence.

Work in accordance with the commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews, plus an additional 3-5 month contact, are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence-based.

To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify appropriate individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and Specialist cases within the Health Visiting caseload.

To appropriately delegate and supervise workload within the skill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competency frameworks.

To provide expert advice, support and interventions to all families with children in the first years of life.

To identify the needs of individual children, parents and families (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existing local services, thereby promoting early intervention.

To operate within Children, Young People and Families Public Health Services Child Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.

To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for Safeguarding children.

Liaise and maintain good working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as necessary.

Please see attached job description for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First Level Nurse or midwife Registration with NMC
• Specialist Community Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting.
• Effective oral / written communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of profiling localities and need
• Experience of Safeguarding
• Experience of Working with people within clinic/home and community settings
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Skills in managing own workload through effective use of prioritisation.
• Ability to use child and family focused approach to care, which utilises enabling and facilitation skills to maximise the involvement of parents/carers
• Ability to use evidence based, clinically effective interventions in the holistic planning and implementation of family centred care
• Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and professional development
• Computer literacy, knowledge of SystmOne or similar clinical system
• An understanding of Strategic Direction of Childrens Services

Desirable

• Experience as a Registered Health Visitor.
• Experience leading in a team
• Planning schemes of work

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Current Full UK Driving Licence and car
• A committed, enthusiastic person who can demonstrate good team working and autonomy
• Demonstrate good communication skills
• Skilled in managing and prioritising own caseload and workload
• Flexibility in working hours and environment
• Ability to travel extensively within acceptable time scales.

Experience

Essential

• An understanding of current political and local drivers
• Empathetic and non-judgmental
• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
• Confident and resilient
• Ability to inspire and motivate others
• Quick and decisive decision making
• Prioritising workload and sensitive cases

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Southend On Sea City Council

Address

Southend-on-sea Borough Council

Victoria Avenue

Southend-on-sea

SS1 9SB

Employer's website

https://www.southend.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)