Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6 inTrowbridge inTrowbridge PUBLISHED
MON 4 NOV 2024
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The Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6 role at HCRG Care Group in Trowbridge involves leading and delivering high-quality services for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme as part of Wiltshire Children's Community Services. The position focuses on reducing health inequalities, safeguarding children, and improving health outcomes within defined locality areas. Responsibilities include assessing health needs, implementing targeted interventions, collaborating with key partners, providing holistic support for children's physical and mental health, and co-managing a caseload with other health visitors.
Candidates should possess a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification, current NMC registration, and experience in health visiting. The role emphasises strong leadership, effective partnership working, and the ability to use IT systems for managing electronic health records. Additional desirable qualifications include experience in line management, innovative practice, and presenting policy outcomes to stakeholders. The position offers various benefits, including competitive pay, access to discounts, professional development opportunities, and a supportive organisational culture.
Candidates should possess a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification, current NMC registration, and experience in health visiting. The role emphasises strong leadership, effective partnership working, and the ability to use IT systems for managing electronic health records. Additional desirable qualifications include experience in line management, innovative practice, and presenting policy outcomes to stakeholders. The position offers various benefits, including competitive pay, access to discounts, professional development opportunities, and a supportive organisational culture.
Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors) work within Wiltshire Childrens Community Services to lead and deliver a high quality, proactive service for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.
Base
One of 3 locality hubs in Wiltshire
- Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area. Delivering the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs, and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
- To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs
- Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
- Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
- To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
- To contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
- To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
About us
As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6youll be part of our valued team atwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £21.86 per hour pay rate
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards:with a number of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionThe Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
- Current NMC registration on third part of the register
- Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams
- Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
- Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
- Working knowledge of the tools and programmes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
- Car driver and use of car for work
- Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems
Desirable
- Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
- Experience in line management and developing teams
- Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
- Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
- Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes
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