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Job overview

These are exciting times for our 0-19 service in Newcastle upon Tyne and we want you to be part of it.  Are you a Health Visitor with excellent clinical, leadership and transformational skills looking for a challenge?  Are you enthusiastic, forward thinking and committed to delivering high quality care?  Yes - then we look forward to receiving your application.

We are a dynamic, motivated, enthusiastic team, passionate about giving children the best start in life. 

We are looking for experienced and newly qualified, innovative Health Visitors to join our integrated 0 -19 city wide service in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.

We are able to offer full and part time hours and the flexibility of agile working.

Newcastle 0 -19 service has an innovative, transformational service model which provides progression opportunities for staff, employing Band 6 Health Visitors and Band 7 Senior Health Visitors to provide a robust supportive culture within a skill mixed team. 

As a service we are committed to providing a stimulating, supportive, inclusive work environment prioritising your individual training and development needs. 

We are looking for proactive and motivated practitioners with a strong approach to teamwork to meet constantly changing needs of service users across our diverse city in line with local and national public health targets.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be part of a highly motivated and skilled workforce, supporting the implementation of the Healthy Child Program to contribute to the provision and delivery of a high quality Health Visiting Service.

The post holders will be expected to be innovative, adaptable and motivated with a strong approach to team work and lead within an evidence-based Child and Family centred public health service that focuses on early intervention and prevention, assessing health needs and vulnerability within the family and community.  This will involve working in partnership with carers/parents and young people as well as multi-agency working and participation in Early Help pathway and safeguarding policies and procedures.  The applicant will require resilience and resourcefulness and in return will feel great job satisfaction in making a real difference.

A key priority for the service is an integrated approach to demonstrate positive health outcomes for children and families residing in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.  We are excited to be key stakeholders in the  "Collaborative Newcastle" initiative, including the Children and Families Newcastle model.

If improving outcomes for children and families, and working in a supportive environment interests you, we look forward to receiving your application.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.  We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.