Health Visitors

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you will be expected to deliver in the role

Apply strengths-based approach to practice consistent with that of Signs of Safety and the Signs of Safety principles, disciplines and tools.

To work alongside families where there are signs of social, emotional health or behavioural issues and support those who need additional support and targeted intervention.

To participate in CAF, multi-agency assessment, statutory assessments and other relevant assessment processes and offer management oversight where required.

To attend and act as Lead professional at Family Network meetings / Child in Need / Child Protection meetings including when there is a transfer down to universal plus pathway as required, being he key contact with the family and liaising with other professionals to provide a joined-up response.

To work and develop ongoing relationships with other agencies to effectively intervene and support families where there are concerns about parenting capacity, adult mental health, alcohol or substance misuse, domestic abuse and neglect.

Work with families to support behaviour change leading to the role modelling of healthy lifestyles and their role as a childs first educator.

To provide information and signposting for children, young people and families to relevant universal and specialist services in the local area and beyond, empowering families to help themselves.

Provide and receive supervision/preceptorship in accordance with clinical governance guidelines.

Create and maintain an appropriate learning environment, support colleagues to meet the educational and developmental needs of all team members, including students.

To work with the managers and team in the completion of quality assurance processes, including audit.

To undertake direct observation of practice, with effective feedback to offer quality assurance.

Offer management oversight on delegated work monitoring thresholds and ensuring that child and family records are accurate and up-to-date in line with policies and procedures.

Provide regular data analysis with trends and forecast to support service delivery.

To oversee successful completion of Quality Assurance processes within team.

Alongside the manager, respond to needs and gaps analyses and research findings by developing and implementing solutions which include the voices of the communities and families.

Attend all Mandatory training as required.

Although this list provides examples of what you will be doing its not intended to be exhaustive and you will have personal objectives linked to our People Plans and Strategies that will be discussed and agreed with your line manager when you start.

Person Profile what you will bring to the team

Qualifications and professional memberships

1. Current Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse/ Midwife.

2. Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Health Visiting qualification.

3. Evidence of continuing professional development.

4. Willingness to undertake further professional training and attend training courses as well as reading literature as required to update knowledge and skills.

5. Nurse prescriber (course to be undertaken within 1 year of post commencement if no qualification).

6. Mentorship Qualification. (Desirable)

7. Management and leadership qualification. (Desirable)

Values and personal qualities 8. Demonstrates personal values and behaviours aligned to our corporate WE ASPIRE values.

9. Passionate about making a positive difference for Suffolk.

10. A passion for improving the lives of children, young people and families who access our services.

11. A commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

12. Committed to listen, support and motivate children, young people and their families.

13. Committed to working as part of a team.

14. Demonstrates use of reflection to inform practice.

15. Positive with a sense of purpose.

16. Resilient in the face of challenge.

17. Flexible in approach to meet the demands of the post and the priority of improving outcomes for children and families.

Specialist knowledge skills and experience

18. Relevant extensive experience of working directly with children, young people and their families, as relevant to the specific client groups.

19. Proven commitment to finding solutions, planning and developing interventions with families and evidence of effectively using solution focused approaches in practice.

20. Extensive knowledge and proven ability in providing effective skills in using evidence-based models of intervention to deliver successful outcomes and an ability to bring research into practice.

21. Proven knowledge and understanding of the social and emotional factors that affect a childs capacity to learn and develop.

22. Proven ability to recognise child protection, safeguarding and risk issues and take appropriate action.

23. Proven ability to use a range of assessment frameworks.

24. Evidence of leadership skills to support, advise and motivate staff and children, young people and their families.

25. Experience of assessment and observation of the developmental needs of children.

26. Evidence of leadership skills to negotiate, influence and mediate with a range of audiences, including families, professional stakeholders, partners and colleagues to achieve positive outcomes and provide appropriate advice and facilitation to de-escalate.

27. Comprehensive understanding of legislation, guidance, national policy and best practice including the performance and quality standards for childrens services.

28. Extensive knowledge and experience of working with associated agencies and partners to advocate and appropriately challenge colleagues and partners to ensure the best outcomes for the service user.

29. Ability to work collaboratively with children, young people and families to clarify risk and address concerns, find solutions, plan and develop care packages

30. Good standard of IT literacy and the ability to learn new IT applications appropriate for role

31. Excellent standard of organisational and planning skills to understand, compile and critically analyse complex material and data to meet varied deadlines.

32. Experience of supervising and coaching staff.

33. Demonstrate understanding and sensitivity of the diverse ranges of needs of clients and backgrounds.

34. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations, effectively managing challenging or sensitive situations and provide appropriate advice, facilitating de-escalation and resolution.

35. Experience of using Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing principles, disciplines and tools. (Desirable)

Additional requirements

(These are required for this role, but it is not necessary to demonstrate in your application)

36. An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

37. Ability to lift and carry equipment and/or babies and young children to and from car, including lifting and fitting car seat.

38. Available for deployment anywhere in Suffolk.

39. Ability to undertake out of hours working if required.

Travel requirements

We positively encourage the use of technology to communicate and engage, but in this role, you will need to travel, so you must either hold a full and current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications and professional memberships
• 1. Current Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse/ Midwife.
• 2. Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Health Visiting qualification.

Desirable

• 3. Evidence of continuing professional development.
• 4. Willingness to undertake further professional training and attend training courses as well as reading literature as required to update knowledge and skills.
• 5. Nurse prescriber (course to be undertaken within 1 year of post commencement if no qualification).
• 6. Mentorship Qualification. Desirable
• 7. Management and leadership qualification. Desirable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Suffolk County Council

Address

8 Russell Road

Ipswich

Suffolk

IP1 2BX

Employer's website

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