Job summary
Employer heading
Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Health Visitor
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a SCPHN Health Visitor to a generic Health Visitor post within the geographical area of Bridgend. This is specifically to deliver the Healthy Child Wales Programme, as well as promoting the health and wellbeing of children and families. The post holder will be a dynamic and motivated individual, who is proactive in embracing and facilitating the provision of an effective Health Visiting service. You will have a SCPHN Health Visitor qualification or be imminently awaiting results.
Main duties of the job
You will work within a team of other Health Visitors managing a caseload of families with children between the ages of 0 - 5. The focus is on delivering key public health messages through completion of the Healthy Child Wales Programme. We advocate strong collaboration with our partner agencies and promote effective multi-disciplinary working which facilitate positive outcomes.
If you have excellent communication skills, work well independently as well as part of a team and have a desire to main positive outcomes for children and their families, then this post may be of interest to you.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Midwife
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Health Visitor
Desirable criteria
- MSc Public Health or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing a Health Visitor caseload
- Experience of multi agency partnership working
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent IT skills
- Ability to travel within the geographical catchment area of CTMUHB
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Thomas
- Job title
- Deputy Senior Nurse for SCPHN Health Visiting
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 753470
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