Job summary
The Senior Family Health Advisor works as part of the Health Visiting Team within the wider Bright Start Early integrated Service. The post holder is responsible for assisting in the identification and assessment of health needs of children and families, and in carrying out delegated interventions in partnership with children and carers. This can include delivery of health promoting activities and delivery of evidence-based interventions in homes, health care, Family Hub or Children's Centre settings, with individuals and in groups. The post holder will champion and support the implementation of Islington's Start For Life Workforce Pilot which aims to improve the quality of the Health Reviews, implement early identification of needs and support FHAs to provide targeted interventions. The Senior FHA will also have an oversight on the supervision of the FHA's delivering with the support of health visitors.
Main duties of the job
- To lead in provision of quality evidence-based FHA interventions which are aligned to the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme
- To ensure that all FHA's adhere to and deliver on the Start for Life offer by supporting the delivery of the Bright Start Early Childhood Offer through Family Hub workstreams and High Impact Areas
- Support FHA's to deliver on the Bright Start strategy under the Supporting Families Outcomes Framework
- To support all FHAs within the health visiting/school nursing teams with professional development
- To access the relevant courses to support the delivery of training programmes as Champions
- Lead on innovation and training of FHA's e.g., Wellcomm and ASQ training
- Support the HV Clinical Lead and the Operational lead with the extraction of data to offer an insight into the project.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead and coordinate FHAs as part of an integrated service in providing a high quality, safe and supportive environment.
- To support the development of well functioning integrated teams by modelling effective team working and communication skills, and by supporting change within the service
- Responsibility for contributing to auditing the advanced assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based interventions.
- Support all FHAs within the health visiting/school nursing teams with professional development, identifying training needs and supporting the delivery of training programmes
- Ensure that all training requirements to meeting service specification are completed and up to date for all FHAs.
- Lead on group Peer support and supervision for FHAs
- To ensure that individuals within the teams are aware of and work within the Trust policies and procedures. To ensure the maintenance of up to date, accurate records that comply with local and national standards.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead and coordinate FHAs as part of an integrated service in providing a high quality, safe and supportive environment.
- To support the development of well functioning integrated teams by modelling effective team working and communication skills, and by supporting change within the service
- Responsibility for contributing to auditing the advanced assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based interventions.
- Support all FHAs within the health visiting/school nursing teams with professional development, identifying training needs and supporting the delivery of training programmes
- Ensure that all training requirements to meeting service specification are completed and up to date for all FHAs.
- Lead on group Peer support and supervision for FHAs
- To ensure that individuals within the teams are aware of and work within the Trust policies and procedures. To ensure the maintenance of up to date, accurate records that comply with local and national standards.
Person Specification
Experince of working with families
Essential
- Working in a nursery/community setting with children and families
Education
Essential
- CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care or equivalent and Education & 4 GCSE's including English and Maths (A-C). See person Specification.
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential
- Excellent Communication skills, IT and orla
- Willingness to support management of change
- High leavels of clinical skills with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs
- Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance
- Ability to apply research to practice
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and ability to make decisions in these areas
- Ability to set personal objectives and mange time, priorities and stressful situations
- Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Committiment to the development of excellent services which focusses on improved outcomes for children
- Awareness of equal opportunities and valuing diversity
- Knowledge of infection control standards
Person Specification
Experince of working with families
Essential
- Working in a nursery/community setting with children and families
Education
Essential
- CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care or equivalent and Education & 4 GCSE's including English and Maths (A-C). See person Specification.
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential
- Excellent Communication skills, IT and orla
- Willingness to support management of change
- High leavels of clinical skills with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs
- Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance
- Ability to apply research to practice
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and ability to make decisions in these areas
- Ability to set personal objectives and mange time, priorities and stressful situations
- Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Committiment to the development of excellent services which focusses on improved outcomes for children
- Awareness of equal opportunities and valuing diversity
- Knowledge of infection control standards
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).
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).
