Job summary
We are looking for registered Health Visitors to join our dynamic Early Intervention Health Visiting Service to deliver an enhanced package of care to children and their families living in Lambeth and Southwark.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop, shape and embed the Bright Beginnings pathway, tailored to support children with multiple/complex needs. You will use your experience and skills to build therapeutic relationships with families and work closely with our partners in Lambeth and/or Southwark to deliver packages of care to a defined caseload of children.
As an Early Intervention Health Visitor, you will use your specialist community public health nursing skills to provide a high level of care and utilise research based assessment and support tools with families.
Working within Lambeth and/or Southwark, you will be based in one of our main offices and visiting children and their families at home and community clinics in an agile way.
Closing Date: 23rd October 2023
Interview date: 3rd November 2023
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be the allocated Early Intervention Health Visitor for a defined caseload of children.
You will assess complex health needs and provide packages of care/interventions, health promotion and advise on the prevention of ill health for children and their families on the allocated caseload.
The post holder will work with families in their homes as well as at community venues, utilising a case management approach and structured parenting interventions to improve outcomes for children.
The Early Intervention Health Visitor is required to work closely with families and multi-disciplinary partners in addressing a range of complex needs. They will contribute to the safeguarding agenda in line with Pan London Safeguarding Children's Partnership Board and "Working Together to Safeguarding Children" (2018)
About us
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and creating a sense of belonging and fun for all our teams caring for children and their families. When you join us, you become a valued member of the Evelina London community and can access the wider Evelina and Nightingale education academies. Choosing us as your employer affords you opportunities to be part of a Trust which recognises the value of sharing expertise, research and education between community and acute services.
Working with us you will have access to numerous benefits:
- A mobile device, android phone and personal protection device whilst in practice allowing you to work more flexibly and to achieve a better work/life balance
- The opportunity to apply to the Evelina Eranda Rothschild Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship programme, which provides education, training and mentorship to nurses and midwives who have an idea for a project which will improve patientexperience. Open to all grades of nursing staff.
- A robust safeguarding supervision and managerial supervision framework
- Access to the world class clinicians and services and education and training from the 'Outstanding' Evelina London's Children Hospital
- Access to our HEI partners e.g. Kings College London for Masters level education opportunities
- Annual season ticket loan
- Care First - our excellent employers' benefits service who have extensive resources
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for further details of Duties and Responsibilities.
The post holder will work across a number of community locations including Children Centres, Early years settings and community health clinics. They will be required to work across borough boundaries as part of a small cohesive team, accessing and recording information using mobile devices in the office and in community settings.
The majority of the clinical activity will take place in home settings.
The post holder will work autonomously with regular managerial, safeguarding and clinical supervision provided.
Interview Date: 24th October 2023
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for further details of Duties and Responsibilities.
The post holder will work across a number of community locations including Children Centres, Early years settings and community health clinics. They will be required to work across borough boundaries as part of a small cohesive team, accessing and recording information using mobile devices in the office and in community settings.
The majority of the clinical activity will take place in home settings.
The post holder will work autonomously with regular managerial, safeguarding and clinical supervision provided.
Interview Date: 24th October 2023
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Current registration with NMC as a nurse (RN)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting - Degree level
- Registered Nurse Prescriber
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Masters degree in Health related subject and or Social Science or equivalent
Desirable
- Registered Children Nurse
- Management and Leadership qualification
- Mentor Qualification
Knowledge/Skills /Ability
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills; including observation, listening and empathy sensitivity tact and diplomacy, team working.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals and agencies to deliver family focused care.
- Ability to prioritise, plan, organise and delegate workload
- Able to travel across a range of community settings with equipment and mobile devices.
- Proficient use of IT packages, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and review care packages.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working as a health visitor delivering the Healthy Child programme.
- Experience of providing complex packages of care for families with additional health and social care needs, involving other services/agencies
- Teaching and assessing learners.
- Experience of service improvement initiatives
- Experience of working with families with multiple and complex health and social care needs
- Understanding and experience of analysing and interpretation of service related information to improve performance
Desirable
- Experience of working in family Nurse Partnership service
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Current registration with NMC as a nurse (RN)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting - Degree level
- Registered Nurse Prescriber
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Masters degree in Health related subject and or Social Science or equivalent
Desirable
- Registered Children Nurse
- Management and Leadership qualification
- Mentor Qualification
Knowledge/Skills /Ability
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills; including observation, listening and empathy sensitivity tact and diplomacy, team working.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals and agencies to deliver family focused care.
- Ability to prioritise, plan, organise and delegate workload
- Able to travel across a range of community settings with equipment and mobile devices.
- Proficient use of IT packages, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and review care packages.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working as a health visitor delivering the Healthy Child programme.
- Experience of providing complex packages of care for families with additional health and social care needs, involving other services/agencies
- Teaching and assessing learners.
- Experience of service improvement initiatives
- Experience of working with families with multiple and complex health and social care needs
- Understanding and experience of analysing and interpretation of service related information to improve performance
Desirable
- Experience of working in family Nurse Partnership service
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
