Health Visitor

Job responsibilities

Principal duties

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 childrens 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 childrens 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

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
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to recognise and respond appropriately to children and their families in challenging situations
• Good IT skills
• Car Driver
• 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

Desirable

• Experience of working within a multi-agency team

Experience and Knowledge

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 children's 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

Others

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 or Midwife
• Mentorship qualification
• Child protection supervisor
• Clinical supervision facilitator
• Solihull Approach trained

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).