Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-CR7016963
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Health Visitor
Band 7
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Are you highly motivated and an experienced Health Visitor if so, an exciting opportunity has arisen within our Strengthening Families team. As a Specialist Health Visitor, you will have a vital role in supporting families with highly complex needs. You will hold a small caseload of families receiving specialist and targeted services under the Healthy Child Programme. The applicant must be able to deal with complex situations which require analysis and comparisons of a range of options on a daily basis.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be employed as part of the Specialist Health Visiting Team and work within a diverse, multi-ethnic, deprived, highly mobile, urban population.
He/she will have the knowledge and skills to identify risk factors and hold a caseload of families that are complex in nature. To work in partnership with families who may be new to the country, parents with mental health, drug, alcohol and/or domestic abuse problems, that may be living within temporary accommodation and find it difficult or are reluctant to access existing services.
The post holder will have responsibility for identifying transient families, undertaking core assessments to determine need, co-ordinate family health plans and deliver care to ensure additional targeted support is provided, to improve outcomes, for some of the most vulnerable families in the local population
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are "a great place to work!"
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [email protected] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
CARE values
Essential criteria
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- RGN/RMH/RMW/ Dip HE (Child/adult/Learning disabilities)
- NMC registration
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in Health Visiting
- Evidence of Leadership training/CPD
- Relevant post graduate education masters
- Evidence of having undertaken training in health promotion and public health specific to the position such as domestic abuse and substance misuse
- Willing to undertake further personal and professional development required to fulfil the role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working in the community relevant to health visiting
- Specialist knowledge and experience of working with vulnerable and hard to reach groups. Developed through training and practice.
- Caseload holder including children subject to a Child Protection Pla
- Expert in family and child health and development
- Experience of facilitating group work and/or training
- Multi-agency working with vulnerable families
- Implementing innovative practice
- Experience of delivering teaching to students or groups
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Knowledge of and contribution to clinical governance framework
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates skills in leadership, diplomacy and negotiations
- Able to establish successful partnerships with stakeholder groups and organisations
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective engagement within highly challenging situations and environments
- Analyses and defines problems, generates and implements solutions that work across existing boundaries
- Ability to work autonomously, setting own priorities and meeting targets and be emotionally resilient
- Ability to produce written reports about complex family situations of a standard to be shared with the multi-agency child protection team and the court service.
- Ability to be flexible and respond to service need
- Demonstrates a comprehensive and sensitive understanding of diversity, equality, cultural and anti-discrimination practice
- Demonstrates effective team and collaborative working
- Ability to enable others to feel empowered, to challenge practice and behaviours to bring about change
- Evidence of ability to influence and motivate others
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Good networking skills
- Confident decision maker
- Ability to undertaking audit and analyse results and write up recommendations
- IT Skills – ability to use Microsoft Office packages
Special circumstances
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to travel to multiple sites across the Trust
- The post requires a degree of agility and the ability to carry and manoeuvre light to moderate loads
- Reliable, trustworthy and demonstrates professional integrity
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenny Chapman
- Job title
- Service Lead for Health Visiting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07876 391217
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