Student Health Visitor inHorsham inHorsham PUBLISHED 11 SEP 2024

Student Health Visitor positions - Commencing Jan 2025, full-time over 12 months or part-time over 24 months


Are you an
NMC registered nurse
(child, adult, mental health or learning disability) or an
NMC registered midwife
interested in a career in
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - Health Visiting?


We welcome applications from
3rd year nursing and midwifery students,
however your NMC registration needs to be active before the course start date (January 2025).

Community Public Health Nurse- Health Visitor. This course is offered full-time (37.5 hours/week) or part-time (18.75 hours/week) at level 7(Post Graduate Diploma).


You Will Be Able To Demonstrate

• An understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and service delivery model
• A keen interest in public health, high impact areas and wider determinants of health
• Excellent communication and assessment skills
• Motivation, commitment to learning and ability to link theory to practice
• Leadership skills, self-awareness and ability to reflect on practice
• That you meet the criteria for the course at MSc Masters / Level 7 Oxford Brookes University
• A strong commitment to working with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust on completion of the course.
• This post is subject to NMC validation of the Oxford Brookes SCPHN course due to be assessed in the Autumn 2024.
  
  

Considering a career in Health Visiting? Please see this Video


Health Visitors & School Nurses lead the Healthy Child Programme in Brighton and Hove and West Sussex.

Health Visitors work with children aged between 0 and 5 to provide key public health messages to all families; to identify and assess health or development needs, and then offer targeted support where it is most needed, with the aim that every child has the best possible start to life. Health Visitors have contact with families in homes, community venues and virtually from the antenatal period up to school entry.

As a student, you will be an adult learner and this requires you to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, resilient and dedicated to the role, with a keen interest in public health, and as a qualified SCPHN you will be leading the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). You will have a passion for public health and improving outcomes for children in West Sussex and Brighton & Hove through progressive universalism and early intervention. We are looking for a solution-focused nurse or midwife that is able to demonstrate an understanding of holistic assessment, and the wider determinants of health and capacity building. You will need to have excellent communication skills and some experience of working collaboratively with other agencies.

This is not just a set of letters but the pathway to a varied, worthwhile and rewarding career.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs, the coast and our vibrant towns and cities.
  
  

NHS staff have access to a broad array of benefits and discounts.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: HCP Practice Educator Team Job title: HCP Practice Educators Email address: Telephone number: 0000000000

The HCP Practice Educator welcome informal contact - please email us with your contact details, the course you are interested in and a member of the practice educator team will contact you.

For academic queries please contact Jennifer Kirman, Principal Lecturer Education, Oxford Brookes University,