Health Visitor

Job summary

As part of the Healthy Child Wales Programme, the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse -Health Visiting (SCPHN - HV) will be the named Health Visitor for all Children and their families within their caseload from antenatal to 5 years, excluding the unborn child. This requires the Health Visitor (HV) to commence the child's planning process.

To work without direct supervision to undertake statutory duties on behalf of the Health Board with respect to individual children within your caseload to assess, monitor, improve and support the wellbeing of children and their families.

Working in partnership with the child's family and all involved agencies to produce a child's plan which will require to be monitored, reviewed and evaluated.

In discharging these responsibilities the post holder is responsible and accountable for maintaining clinical, staff and information governance.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for providing a Health Visiting service for a defined caseload of families with children aged 0-5 including in the antenatal period. Ensure transfer to the appropriate service at appropriate time.

Provide a child centred, inclusive, holistic and accessible Public Health programme to children, their families and communities.

As part of Healthy Child Wales Programme (HCWP), quality assurance framework for current practice, skills such as motivational interviewing are required.

Plan, organise and prioritise own workload, child health clinics and meetings.

As appropriate, lead and/or contribute to developing strategies to address individual identified needs as well as those identified within the community. Support and contribute to continuous quality improvement of families' care through the use of audit and monitoring compliance to service and professional standards, for example Clinical Quality Indicators (CQI), working in conjunction with the Team Manager to implement corrective action plans. Ensure appropriate audits are undertaken.

Lead and deliver the Universal Healthy Child Wales Programme (Welsh Government 2015).

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.