Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) - Health Visitor
Listed on 2026-08-18
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Healthcare
Community Health, Public Health, Health Education & Promotion
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) - Health Visitor
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East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
A Vacancy at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridgeshire).
Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?
If so, East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team!
We have vacancies for a Health Visitor within Cambridgeshire: one part-time position in St Ives and one full-time position in South Fenland/Doddington area.
East of England Community Health and Care are able to offer:
• A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count
• The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
• A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
• Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills
• Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies, ensuring the best outcomes for children and families
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 13 August 2026
To work as part of a team leading the 0–19 Healthy Child Programme.
The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities.
Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care.
They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory and voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes.
Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within the Cambridgeshire.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the East of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify the health needs of children and young people, their families and the community and contribute to developing a strategy to address individual identified needs as well as those needs within the community
To use knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care.
To identify health needs within a geographical corporate caseload/ community.
To clinically triage the Single Point of Access (SPA) as required in accordance with agreed procedures.
Promote local and national public health priorities.
Respond to health needs assessments by referring to other professionals (e.g. GP’s, consultants, speech and language therapists), and statutory and voluntary agencies (e.g. social care, housing, Home Start).
To work with the Locality Lead to support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or adhere to current safeguarding procedures, and…
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