Health Visitor - Central Richmondshire Team North Yorkshire

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are an innovative team dedicated to promoting the health and wellbeing of the North Yorkshire population. The service have developed a blended approach to service delivery offering families face to face and virtual mandated contacts, within a skill mix team.

The Health Visitors role is to prevent ill health and promote positive holistic health care for an identified population and community and to take responsibility for ensuring the physical and mental health needs of families, acting as an advocate for the client and community.

Health Visitors plan, organise and deliver programmes of care in conjunction with the family and the multi-disciplinary team and undertake continuous on-going assessment of children, young people and families. They provide an evidenced based service to children, people, families and communities in accordance with National and Local Policy initiatives.

You will need excellent communication skills and a passion for public health, alongside good organisational skills, flexibility to meet the needs of the service, and ability to travel independently to meet service delivery as required.

There is a robust package of clinical and safeguarding supervision provided to all staff.

For further information on this position please see the Job Description and Personal Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level registered nurse/midwife
• Specialist practitioner.(Hons, B. Sc. Hons, Health Visiting/ Public Health Nursing or equivalent)
• Must have a driving licence and access to a vehicle to meet the service needs.

Desirable

• Recognised teaching / mentorship qualification.
• Non Medical Prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 2 years Post Registration experience
• Experience of safeguarding children and young people
• Ability to use software packages as appropriate
• Ability to demonstrate written and verbal communication skills which are relevant, concise, accurate and timely

Desirable

• Evidence of participating on a service development change.
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service
• Knowledge and experience of systm1

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Friary Surgery

Queens Road

Richmond

DL10 4AJ

Employer's website

https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)