Job summary
This is an
exciting challenge for a motivated and innovative Health Visitor to join our
experienced skill mixed 0-19 teams based in Epsom, Molesey (Elmbridge Borough)
or Ashford (Spelthorne Borough).
The ideal
candidate for our team would be a clinical practitioner with leadership and
excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We look for individuals with
a strong approach to teamwork, those who demonstrate initiative, a good
understanding of children, young people and their families and ability to
support families from a diverse population within the borough.
Our teams offer
a strong leadership structure, friendly working skill mix team and admin
support. We also have good working relationships with partner agencies such as Midwifery,
Social Care and Surrey Safeguarding Board.
We are committed to professional development with an
invigorating training plan and an
excellent preceptorship model to support newly qualified health visitors. To those looking for career or
self-development we offer Leadership Programmes
You will also be supported by our Clinical Service Managers, Clinical
Team Leaders and our Safeguarding Team to provide excellent professional
practice and to further develop your skills and knowledge.
For more
information contact Caroline Hornby Clinical Service Manager on 07507 642974
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the full job description and person specification attached for further details about this position.
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey’s largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe ‘High Cost Allowance’ of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level.
Click the link in the box CSH Surrey - A great place to work and read everything you need to know about joining our unique organisation and click the iWantGreatCare link to read our patient feedback.
If you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Purpose
The post holder will be a member of the 0-19 public health team delivering an evidenced based and needs led service for children, young people and their families in line with the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). Supported by the clinical team lead, the post holder will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of health needs, including the development, implementation and evaluation/audit of evidence based interventions.
She/he will take responsibility for ensuring the quality and standard of care and delivery of a service to improve outcomes for children and families. The post holder will participate in delivering a universal core service, and provide targeted interventions, to address health inequalities, where necessary referring to specialist services. This role will also include safeguarding responsibilities, mentorship of students (pre and post registration), line management of a skill mixed 0-19 team and staff appraisals.
Principal duties to include:
- 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 children’s 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’ 2016 DH 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 children’s 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
- Work in accordance with the needs of the service, undertake other duties as required within current skill set
Job description
Job responsibilities
Purpose
The post holder will be a member of the 0-19 public health team delivering an evidenced based and needs led service for children, young people and their families in line with the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). Supported by the clinical team lead, the post holder will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of health needs, including the development, implementation and evaluation/audit of evidence based interventions.
She/he will take responsibility for ensuring the quality and standard of care and delivery of a service to improve outcomes for children and families. The post holder will participate in delivering a universal core service, and provide targeted interventions, to address health inequalities, where necessary referring to specialist services. This role will also include safeguarding responsibilities, mentorship of students (pre and post registration), line management of a skill mixed 0-19 team and staff appraisals.
Principal duties to include:
- 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 children’s 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’ 2016 DH 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 children’s 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
- Work in accordance with the needs of the service, undertake other duties as required within current skill set
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of personal development and acquisition of transferable skills relevant to the job description
- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and the children and families public health agenda
- Experience of initiating and participating in clinical audit and research.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to understand key element of change management in relation to childrens community public health services
Desirable
- Previous experience of leadership within a skill mixed team
- Recent relevant experience of working with children and families
- Completion of safeguarding modules
Skills
Essential
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and demonstrate ability to delegate work appropriately
- Track record of broad clinical skills demonstrated through personal development
- Teaching and facilitation skills
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with other both internal and external partner agencies
- Work under pressure and demonstrate ability to change priorities at short notice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to recognise and respond appropriately to children and their families in challenging situations
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-agency team
Other
Essential
- Holds valid full UK driving licence and has access to a car for business use
- Flexible approach to working day to meet the needs of service delivery
- Positive attitude with strong degree of personal integrity
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (RN1) Health Visitor SCPHN qualification
- Current NMC registration part 3 register
- Nurse prescriber (V100)
Desirable
- Registered nurse child branch
- Mentorship qualification
- Child protection supervisor
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Solihull Approach trained
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of personal development and acquisition of transferable skills relevant to the job description
- Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS and the children and families public health agenda
- Experience of initiating and participating in clinical audit and research.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to understand key element of change management in relation to childrens community public health services
Desirable
- Previous experience of leadership within a skill mixed team
- Recent relevant experience of working with children and families
- Completion of safeguarding modules
Skills
Essential
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and demonstrate ability to delegate work appropriately
- Track record of broad clinical skills demonstrated through personal development
- Teaching and facilitation skills
- Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with other both internal and external partner agencies
- Work under pressure and demonstrate ability to change priorities at short notice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to recognise and respond appropriately to children and their families in challenging situations
- Good IT skills
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-agency team
Other
Essential
- Holds valid full UK driving licence and has access to a car for business use
- Flexible approach to working day to meet the needs of service delivery
- Positive attitude with strong degree of personal integrity
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse (RN1) Health Visitor SCPHN qualification
- Current NMC registration part 3 register
- Nurse prescriber (V100)
Desirable
- Registered nurse child branch
- Mentorship qualification
- Child protection supervisor
- Clinical supervision facilitator
- Solihull Approach trained
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
