Job overview

Are you interested in a new and exciting role within the health visiting service? We are looking for an enthusiastic practitioner to join the health visiting service as an Early Years Practitioner. 

As an Early Years Practitioner you will be a key member of the health visiting team working across both the East Team (Bromyard/Ledbury) and the HMG City Team. The Early Years Practitioner will support the teams by undertaking clerical/clinical duties as directed to support the delivery of the health visiting service to children, young people and families. 

The post holder will work under the direction of the skill mix team including Practice Leads, Health Visitors and Staff Nurses using their skill and expertise to ensure the safe delivery of the service. 

The Early Years Practitioner is responsible for completing appropriate delegated tasks and escalating any concerns or risks. 

You must have a full driving licence and have access to a car for work as you will be based within the community. 

Main duties of the job

·       You will be responsible for setting up and clearing up from health visiting clinics, and carrying out duties during these sessions such as weighing and measuring children.

•          To assist as appropriate in setting up and facilitating group work for  children and parents in conjunction with the Health Visitor/Community Nursery Nurse (e.g. Antenatal workshops, Weaning Workshops).  

·       To set up and facilitate pre planned community workshops within PCN areas (e.g.  vaping/smoking, healthy eating etc.).  This will include exploring and booking appropriate spaces within the PCN area, creating information boards and collecting resources for parents and delivering a pre-panned workshop which will include presenting information to parents in groups.

·       To organise promotion displays as delegated by the Health Visitor e.g. ordering, maintenance and collecting of resources.

·       Provide practical support to parents when caring for their child, whilst promoting safety in the home setting.

·       Provide evidence based support, assistance and advice to mums who are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.

·       Support mums who chose to artificially feed their babies in line with local and national policy.

·       Under instruction of the Health Visitor in the community setting visit families in their home and complete assessments of the baby (e.g. growth monitoring, feeding) and report or escalate any concerns you may have to the Health Visitor.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.