SCPHN Health Visitor - Canvey

Benefits

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical well‑being – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as 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 you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas that help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

Are you looking for a SCPHN Health Visitor role that offers variety, where you are supported by a team of practitioners, along with a clear development path, which includes the opportunity to become a dual qualified SCPHN Nurse and can lead to a variety of strategic Band 7 and 8 roles? Working within Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services offers a unique environment, with clear visibility of senior management who are easily approachable due to their hands‑on approach, which includes our Managing Director.

You will feel listened to and be given the platforms to have your voice and ideas heard. On behalf of the NHS, Essex County Council and WECCG, HCRG Care Group and Barnardo’s are commissioned to provide a range of children, young people and family services throughout Essex that are free at the point of delivery. We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community.

There is a Healthy Family Team located within every District of Essex and is made up of a multi‑disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.

• The delivery of the Healthy Child Programme including assessment of health needs, development, implementation and evaluation of packages of care.
• Using the Family Health Needs Assessment tool to plan and evidence care.
• Devise and implement individualized care plans for each child based on a needs assessment, within the Health Visiting Strategy, while actively involving the child/parent/carer/family in the planning and implementation of any proposed programme of care and support.
• Identify and assess health, growth and development in the 0‑5 age range (0‑19 Pathway).
• Use the Early Help Assessment Tool when there is unmet need identified.
• Participate in effective partnership working with other agencies and take a lead professional role where appropriate.
• Use evidence‑based practice to develop and maintain a high quality and cost‑effective standard for Specialist Public Health Nurse/Health Visiting practice.

You will also develop your leadership skills by undertaking mentorship responsibilities to both pre‑registration and SCPHN students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members. Support will be on hand by our Practice Education team to do this, along with being provided with regular safeguarding supervision.

• A recognised qualification in health visiting.
• Valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A passion for delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care.
• A drive to continuously develop professionally and expand their skill set.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners…