Job summary
- Main area
- Bank Specialist Community Public Health Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-CCYP-5040379-A
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Horsefair Clinic
- Town
- Wisbech
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/08/2024
Employer heading
BANK Health Visitor
Band 6
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?
If so, Cambridgeshire Community Services 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team!
We have a vacancy for a Bank Health Visitor within our North Cambridgeshire Locality Health Visiting team. This post will be based in Wisbech.
Cambridgeshire Community Service 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
Main duties of the job
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 & 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 Cambridgeshire.
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. This may include being the Lead Professional in the Early Help Hub Assessment Process.
Health Visitors must have the ability to travel and may be required to work across both Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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. This may include being the Lead Professional in the Early Help Hub Assessment Process
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 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,
HomeStart)
To work with the Locality Lead to support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or at risk. To adhere to current safeguarding procedures, and participate in child
protection case conferences and case review meetings as required
Participate in all statutory processes in respect of safeguarding including provision of witness
statements, court reports and court attendance
Undertake programmes of care in partnership with parents, foster parents and other agencies,
designed to safeguard children and minimise risk
Identify children with special educational needs and disability and facilitate support and referrals to maximise developmental potential. Act as a key worker when indicated, ensuring effective, efficient and appropriate care plans
To provide cover for colleagues as requested by your manager
To plan evidence based health promotion programmes, order resources, compile teaching plans with aims, objectives and outcomes, and evaluate the sessions
Actively promote community participation and work within a community development / capacity building framework within a multi-agency context
To act as a health link for other agencies, e.g. Children centres, GPs, voluntary services, public and private agencies and work closely with partner agencies to promote the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families
Demonstrate reflective and evidence-based practice and use this to influence strategy and policy development
To be competent as a non-medical prescriber maintaining NMC registration and competencies
To hold a special interest role and support other staff within the locality and service
To link practice with local and national targets and deliver public health programmes based on current priorities and targets
To contribute to the development of local policies and procedures relevant to their area of work
To take responsibility for their own clinical practice including clinical supervision and to adhere to the NMC code of conduct
To actively participate in reflective practice development through annual clinical observations
To maintain live mentor status and contribute to a learning environment for SCPHN’s, return to practice SCPHN’s, new staff members and pre-registration students
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Community Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) – Health Visitor - at Honours Degree, Diploma or Masters Level
- Registered Nurse with UK NMC (RGN/RMN/RSCN/RN-LD)
- Registered Midwife
Desirable criteria
- Management and leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with people within clinic/home and community settings
- Partnership and interagency working
- Experience with children and their families
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Mentoring
- Leadership and management of staff
- Work with different communities including minority and ethnic groups
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs
- Knowledge and effective skills in using evidence based models of intervention to deliver successful outcomes and an ability to bring research into practice
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing Health Visiting practice
Desirable criteria
- Audit and data analysis
- Initiating and managing change
- Research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Kim Chenery
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07940 238638
- Additional information
We welcome and encourage all applicants to contact us for informal conversations
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