Health Visitor
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
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Job summary
Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?
If so, Cambridgeshire Community Services 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team.
We welcome applications from experienced, newly qualified health visitors and SCPHN students nearing the end of their training.
Successful candidates will be located at The Peacock Centre, Cambridge. We offer both full and part time vacancies.
Cambridgeshire Community Service is able to offer:-
- A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count
- The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
- A Robust 1 year preceptorship for all newly qualified staff or those who are wishing to return to practice
- A comprehensive induction package
- A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
- Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills
- Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies such as early years settings, Local Authority and child and Family Centres; ensuring the best outcomes for children and families
- A competitively priced lease car scheme
- The opportunity to embrace agile working, supported by IT connectivity
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team leading the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme. The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities. Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care. They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory & voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes.
Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within Cambridgeshire.
Health Visitors must have the ability to travel and may be required to work across both Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Date posted
22 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro-rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
448-CCYP-5317711
Job locations
Bluebell Centre Soham or Princess of Wales Hospital Ely
Pratt Street Soham or Lynn Road Ely
Soham or Ely
CB7 5BH
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Address
Bluebell Centre Soham or Princess of Wales Hospital Ely
Pratt Street Soham or Lynn Road Ely
Soham or Ely
CB7 5BH
Employer's website
https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)


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