Health Visitor (SCPHN Qualified) inNorth Somerset inNorth Somerset PUBLISHED
MON 11 NOV 2024
Sirona care & health CIC rSApwpnb
Candidates must be mobile and adaptable to work in diverse settings, including homes, children’s centers, and community venues. The position offers a structured 6-month preceptorship, regular clinical supervision, ongoing safeguarding support, and various training opportunities. Applicants need to be currently based in the UK, as the organisation adheres to specific immigration guidelines regarding overseas candidates.
We have exciting permanent opportunities for specialist community public health nurses to join our Health Visiting service working with children, families, and communities across North Somerset.
Through your work with families, you will empower them to make decisions that positively impact on their health and wellbeing to improve child outcomes, strengthen our partnership working with other agencies and challenge the wider determinants of health and health inequalities including advocating for those families who find services difficult to access.
Our Health Visiting teams work with families in a variety of setting including the family's home, local children centres and community venues, therefore you must be mobile and flexible to visit several locations across a wide geographical area, organised and able to prioritise and manage your time.
In return, we offer a 6-month preceptorship programme for all new staff, regular clinical supervision, on-going safeguarding support, and access to a wide variety of training opportunities.
As a specialist community public health nurse, you will provide expert advice, support, and interventions to families with children in the first years of life and help to empower parents to make decisions that positively affect their family's future health and wellbeing.
The main duties of the role include:
- The delivery of the full-service offer of mandated contacts underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme.
- To work collaboratively with other agencies to promote health and well-being and improve early identification of need and risks to improve child outcomes.
- To empower individuals, families, and communities to influence and access services and information and act as an advocate particularly for those families who find services difficult to access.
- Contribute to safeguarding of children in collaboration with partners using national and local policies to guide professional decision making and action.
The service in North Somerset is led by Health Visitors and supported by a skill mix team.
About us
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Sirona care & health currently recruit overseas nursing and therapy staff through an NHS Trust Supplier and we adhere to the NHSE Code of Practice in relation to applicants from Red List countries. We are therefore, unable to accept any direct applications to this advert from candidates who are not already based in the UK.
If you are currently require a visa to work in the UK, there must be a minimum of 12 months from your start date until the expiry date
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