Health Visitor

Weare looking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated SCPHN Health Visitors with initiative and drive who are passionate about providing an excellent service and support to children and their families living in Southend.

Application swill be welcomed from experienced health visitors, newly qualified health visitors and SCPHNsnearing qualification.

InSouthend our health visiting and school nursing teams operate within an integrated 0-19 Children's Public Health service model and incorporate a skillmix team approach to support aspects of service delivery.

Our Health Visitors lead the Healthy Child Programme 0-5 and are valued leaders for the childrens Public Health agenda. We work in close collaboration with family Centres, Early Years Providers, Education, and alongside other partner agencies to improve population outcomes and reduce health inequalities for children and young people and families in our city.

We offer:

A robust preceptorship programme for newly qualified SCPHNs and those returning to practice.

Staff support via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision

A flexible working pattern.

Continuation of NHS pensions, and reimbursement of NMC fees.

A Local Authority pay award each year.

As a Level 8 (AfC Band 6 equivalent) Health Visitor, you'll be part of our valued team at Southend City Council.

You will lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity,Universal, Targeted, and Specialist.

To promote the health of all children and young people,especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the opportunity to achieve optimum development.

To Identify, prioritise, develop, and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence-basedassessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families andgroups utilising best available evidence.

Work in accordance with the commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews, plus an additional 3-5 month contact, are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence-based.

To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify appropriate individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and Specialist cases within the Health Visiting caseload.

To appropriately delegate and supervise workload within theskill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competency frameworks.

To provide expert advice, support and interventions to all families with children in the first years of life.

To identify the needs of individual children, parents and families (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existing local services, thereby promoting early intervention.

To operate within Children, Young People and Families Public Health Services Child Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.

To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences,providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for Safeguarding children.

Liaise and maintain good working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as necessary.

Please see attached job description for further information.

• First Level Nurse Registration or midwifery.
• Specialist Community Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting.
• Experience as a Registered Health Visitor.
• non medical prescribing

• Empathetic and non-judgmental
• Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
• Confident and resilient
• Ability to inspire and motivate others
• Quick and decisive decision making
• Prioritising workload and sensitive cases
• Current Full UK Driving Licence and car
• A committed, enthusiastic person who can demonstrate good team working and autonomy
• Skilled in managing and prioritising own caseload and workload
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