Associate Practitioner

Job summary

The Isle of Wight 0-19 Service (Health Visiting & School Nursing) has an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Associate Practitioner to join our Health Visiting Team in the first instance on a Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated, practitioner with excellent communication and organisational skills to join our service in delivering the Healthy Child Programme to children and their families across the Island. We work in close partnership with Midwifery, Education, Barnardo's and Family Hubs , Primary Care, and wider children's services, with the aim of improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities for all children in the early years and onwards.

The service offers a robust supervision and management structure. We actively encourage professional development and provide training and regular updates to ensure you maintain the knowledge and skills required to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to the local population.

We all bring different skills and experiences but share a collective understanding of the Solent NHS Trust HEART values and demonstrate these in our practice.

If you thrive working as part of a dynamic team and enjoy 'making a difference' we would welcome your application.

Anticipated Interview Date:09/11/2023

Main duties of the job

Associate practitioner to work with the 0-19 service, supporting the children and family's team with the healthy child programme and short- and medium-term interventions around behaviour and parenting. To be an active member of the 0-19 public health nursing team supporting delivery of the healthy child programme core contacts and delivery of the 6 high impact area's which are part of the healthy child programme.

To implement and evaluate packages of care at Universal, Universal Plus and Universal Partnership Plus levels of the Healthy Child Programme which is led by Health Visitors and Public Health Nurses.

To work in partnership with other agencies and families and contribute to innovative ways of working with children and families

* Work with Children and families in the 0-19 service but mainly 0-7 yrs.

* The work will take place in the community either patients own home, Family Hubs, health venue, or education venue also through digital platforms.

* The role involves working as part of the integrated 0-19 service working as part of the health Visiting / Public Health Nursing teams. This includes working closely with our Southampton city council sure start workers, as well as integrated health team's public health nurses, education and all other primary care services.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.