Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) Band 6 inTrowbridge inTrowbridge PUBLISHED MON 11 NOV 2024

Job purpose 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

Trowbridge/Melksham/Bradford on Avon

Key responsibilities

• To deliverthe 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 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.
• Developing the health visiting service in the defined locality through proactive leadership and innovative practice to meet health needs.

Leadership and Communication skills

• To develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other health visitors through project development and further training.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description.

About us

As aSpecialist 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:

• £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 youre 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 numberof our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission