Health Visitor inGuildford inGuildford PUBLISHED 25 DEC 2023
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ncipal duties
Work collaboratively with the skill mixed health visiting team to ensure equity of service provision, promoting good practice and the sharing of resources.
Prioritise own work in line with areas of highest risk or client groups with greatest health need, delegating other work to the wider skill mixed team whilst providing the team with supervision and support
Facilitate good team working, through effective leadership skills delegating and supervising the work of a skill mixed team to ensure efficient delivery of the 0-5 HCP
Assist in meeting public health targets e.g. teenage sexual health, accident prevention, breast feeding, immunisation, smoking cessation and obesity
Undertake continued responsibility for the management of a caseload
Build and develop good working relationships with childrens centres, midwifery, GP practices and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Work collaboratively with all relevant agencies to influence/develop policies which will enhance health
Be responsible for organisation, prioritisation and planning of health promotion activities, by assessing local health needs and promote key health topics to meet All our health 2DH targets
Where appropriate work with Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) Nurse prescribing lead to prescribe in line with local and national policy guidelines.
Make Every Contact Count with children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries
Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children centres
Assist in the planning and where appropriate in the delivery of continence assessments
Identify and support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services
Participate in prevention and early detection of all categories of abuse in all age groups
Take appropriate action in cases of suspected or actual child abuse, working within Surrey safeguarding childrens code of practice and procedures
Attend child protection conferences/core groups as required and contribute to the development of the protection plans and decision making processes, within the multi-agency setting
Participate in safeguarding supervision
Ensure that clear concise reports are written and that organisational record keeping guidelines are adhered to
Assist in research, participate in clinical audit and evaluation of service including the monitoring of records of others within the 0-19 team
Undertake health needs assessments for children who are looked after
Support and attend group clinical supervision as per organisation policy
Actively participating in steering groups to develop HV practice guidelines
Supervise junior members of the skill mixed 0-19 team as directed by the Clinical Team Lead and undertake junior staff Personal development Review (PDR) appraisals and direct line management.
Contribute to the pre and post registration opportunities made available to students across CFHS, which may include supervision of student practice placements
Assess practice competencies of junior staff members, contributing to their training and development needs
Participate in meetings as appropriate
Be prepared to be flexible within contracted hours
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and innovative health visitor to join our experienced and established skill mixed team within Children and Family Health Surrey Guildford, based in the Jarvis Centre GU11LJ.
We are looking for a strong team player who has a real sense of commitment towards working with children and families. You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, leadership qualities and the ability to work effectively with other teams and agencies as well as a sound knowledge and understanding of children, young people and families.
Working hours are between Monday to Friday but we do offer some flexibility around days and hours worked as well as home working when appropriate to facilitate a better work life balance.
We are committed to the care and development of our staff and offer support and preceptorship as needed to help them work to the best of their abilities.
We also take pride in building exceptional teams who work together to provide our families with the best of compassionate, client focused care and this post is subject to a probationary period.
Whether you are an
experienced or newly qualified health visitor, or one returning after a break,
if this sounds interesting to you, please give us a call to find out more.
For an informal chat please contact
Lenni Hide (clinical team lead) Tuesday to Friday on
Please see the attached Job Description and personal specification for more details and requirements for the role.
P
ri
ncipal duties
Work collaboratively with the skill mixed health visiting team to ensure equity of service provision, promoting good practice and the sharing of resources.
Prioritise own work in line with areas of highest risk or client groups with greatest health need, delegating other work to the wider skill mixed team whilst providing the team with supervision and support
Facilitate good team working, through effective leadership skills delegating and supervising the work of a skill mixed team to ensure efficient delivery of the 0-5 HCP
Assist in meeting public health targets e.g. teenage sexual health, accident prevention, breast feeding, immunisation, smoking cessation and obesity
Undertake continued responsibility for the management of a caseload
Build and develop good working relationships with childrens centres, midwifery, GP practices and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Work collaboratively with all relevant agencies to influence/develop policies which will enhance health
Be responsible for organisation, prioritisation and planning of health promotion activities, by assessing local health needs and promote key health topics to meet All our health 2DH targets
Where appropriate work with Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) Nurse prescribing lead to prescribe in line with local and national policy guidelines.
Make Every Contact Count with children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries
Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children centres
Assist in the planning and where appropriate in the delivery of continence assessments
Identify and support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services
Participate in prevention and early detection of all categories of abuse in all age groups
Take appropriate action in cases of suspected or actual child abuse, working within Surrey safeguarding childrens code of practice and procedures
Attend child protection conferences/core groups as required and contribute to the development of the protection plans and decision making processes, within the multi-agency setting
Participate in safeguarding supervision
Ensure that clear concise reports are written and that organisational record keeping guidelines are adhered to
Assist in research, participate in clinical audit and evaluation of service including the monitoring of records of others within the 0-19 team
Undertake health needs assessments for children who are looked after
Support and attend group clinical supervision as per organisation policy
Actively participating in steering groups to develop HV practice guidelines
Supervise junior members of the skill mixed 0-19 team as directed by the Clinical Team Lead and undertake junior staff Personal development Review (PDR) appraisals and direct line management.
Contribute to the pre and post registration opportunities made available to students across CFHS, which may include supervision of student practice placements
Assess practice competencies of junior staff members, contributing to their training and development needs
Participate in meetings as appropriate
Be prepared to be flexible within contracted hours
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and innovative health visitor to join our experienced and established skill mixed team within Children and Family Health Surrey Guildford, based in the Jarvis Centre GU11LJ.
We are looking for a strong team player who has a real sense of commitment towards working with children and families. You will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, leadership qualities and the ability to work effectively with other teams and agencies as well as a sound knowledge and understanding of children, young people and families.
Working hours are between Monday to Friday but we do offer some flexibility around days and hours worked as well as home working when appropriate to facilitate a better work life balance.
We are committed to the care and development of our staff and offer support and preceptorship as needed to help them work to the best of their abilities.
We also take pride in building exceptional teams who work together to provide our families with the best of compassionate, client focused care and this post is subject to a probationary period.
Whether you are an
experienced or newly qualified health visitor, or one returning after a break,
if this sounds interesting to you, please give us a call to find out more.
For an informal chat please contact
Lenni Hide (clinical team lead) Tuesday to Friday on
Please see the attached Job Description and personal specification for more details and requirements for the role.
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