North East Lincolnshire Council

Health Visitor

The closing date is 30 April 2026

Job summary

Are you a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse who can champion early intervention, holistic care, and building partnerships?

Are you passionate about delivering the best health and wellbeing outcomes?

Put community at the heart of your practice with #TeamNEL

We're looking for qualified or soon to be qualified Health Visitors to join our passionate and dedicated service. We have full time and part time opportunities available working Monday to Friday across our communities. With us you will be truly supported to develop your nursing practice, find real work-life balance and deliver lasting, meaningful change across our borough.

Our area is defined by our communities, our heritage and our potential. This is a time of local and national change reflected in our transformation journey. With passionate multi-disciplinary collaboration across services, we champion a single a shared ambition to improve health outcomes for infants, children and families.

This is a unique opportunity to bring your skills and experience in to our dedicated Public Health Team at North East Lincolnshire Council.

Write your story in this journey for our children, our future.

Main duties of the job

As a Health Visitor, you will hold continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of children aged 0-5 years and their families, delivering high quality care across community, universal, targeted and specialist levels of need.

You will play a pivotal role in supporting families through evidence based interventions and early identification of need whilst leading the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (05 years). This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to children's lives by promoting health, reducing inequalities, and supporting families at every stage of their journey.

You will contribute to the realisation of the outcomes for North East Lincolnshire, in particular to enable all people in NEL to feel safe and be safe, to have good health and wellbeing and to realise their potential through skills and learning.

This will be achieved through the effective delivery of a range of support to young people and families in the locality, in order to improve their health and wellbeing and reduce the need for statutory intervention.

About us

Children's Public Health Nursing Services aims to ensure that all children, young people and families in North East Lincolnshire receive the full service offer (The Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years).

This includes universal access and early identification of additional and/or complex needs, with timely access to specialist services, to secure local services that enable Health Visiting and School Nursing teams in partnership to contribute to improve our outcomes and reduce health inequalities for children, young people and families.

Details

Date posted

02 April 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

F0055-26-0001

Job locations

Municipal Offices

Town Hall Square

Grimsby

North East Lincolnshire

DN31 1HU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the Role:

Contribute to the realisation of the outcomes for North East Lincolnshire, in particular to enable all people in NEL to feel safe and be safe, to have good health and wellbeing and to realise their potential through skills and learning. This will be achieved through the effective delivery of a range of support to young people and families in the locality, in order to improve their health and wellbeing and reduce the need for statutory intervention.

Main Responsibilities: 1. Contribute to the delivery of a 0-19 years programme with specific focus on the delivery of the Health Visitor-led Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years 2. Management and continuing responsibility for a designated caseload within an agreed caseload model for children aged 0-5 years and their families requiring community, universal, partnership and partnership plus interventions. 3. Prioritisation of conflicting demands 4. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary/agency team with allied health and social care professionals, individual clients, groups and communities. 5. Manage caseloads including vulnerable children and attend Child Protection case conferences. 6. Act as Nurse Prescriber (if qualified).

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the Role:

Contribute to the realisation of the outcomes for North East Lincolnshire, in particular to enable all people in NEL to feel safe and be safe, to have good health and wellbeing and to realise their potential through skills and learning. This will be achieved through the effective delivery of a range of support to young people and families in the locality, in order to improve their health and wellbeing and reduce the need for statutory intervention.

Main Responsibilities: 1. Contribute to the delivery of a 0-19 years programme with specific focus on the delivery of the Health Visitor-led Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years 2. Management and continuing responsibility for a designated caseload within an agreed caseload model for children aged 0-5 years and their families requiring community, universal, partnership and partnership plus interventions. 3. Prioritisation of conflicting demands 4. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary/agency team with allied health and social care professionals, individual clients, groups and communities. 5. Manage caseloads including vulnerable children and attend Child Protection case conferences. 6. Act as Nurse Prescriber (if qualified).

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Effective relationship management across multi agency/multi-disciplinary teams e.g. Senior management, schools, voluntary sector organisations and partner agencies
  • Delivery of targeted outcomes and objectives against deadlines and within budget
  • Understanding of performance objectives to devise action plans to meet health needs

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level Registered Nurse/midwife
  • Registered Health Visitor, Post Registration Health Visitor Certificate/
  • Diploma/BSc (Hons)Degree
  • Maintain registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council, notifying team leader of renewals
  • Documented evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • Prescriber
  • Recognised child protection qualification (ENB 970 or equivalent)
  • Evidence of further qualification in respect of child health e.g. family planning/child safeguarding/infant feeding/CBT/perinatalmental health etc.
  • Having completed mentorship qualification
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Effective relationship management across multi agency/multi-disciplinary teams e.g. Senior management, schools, voluntary sector organisations and partner agencies
  • Delivery of targeted outcomes and objectives against deadlines and within budget
  • Understanding of performance objectives to devise action plans to meet health needs

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level Registered Nurse/midwife
  • Registered Health Visitor, Post Registration Health Visitor Certificate/
  • Diploma/BSc (Hons)Degree
  • Maintain registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council, notifying team leader of renewals
  • Documented evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • Prescriber
  • Recognised child protection qualification (ENB 970 or equivalent)
  • Evidence of further qualification in respect of child health e.g. family planning/child safeguarding/infant feeding/CBT/perinatalmental health etc.
  • Having completed mentorship qualification

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).

Employer details

Employer name

North East Lincolnshire Council

Address

Municipal Offices

Town Hall Square

Grimsby

North East Lincolnshire

DN31 1HU


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

North East Lincolnshire Council

Address

Municipal Offices

Town Hall Square

Grimsby

North East Lincolnshire

DN31 1HU


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Children's Health Specialist Lead

Melanie Hill

melanie.hill@nelincs.gov.uk

01472323660

Details

Date posted

02 April 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

F0055-26-0001

Job locations

Municipal Offices

Town Hall Square

Grimsby

North East Lincolnshire

DN31 1HU


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