Job summary
Are you a health visitor ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for your next job? Southend City Council - Children, Young People and Families Public Health Service would love for you to come and work in our vibrant community, supporting children under 5 and their families.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated
practitioner with initiative and drive. Our 0-19 service delivers high quality
public health nursing, that promotes and improves health inequalities to children,
young people and their families in Southend-On-Sea. You will need to have
excellent communication and organisational skills, be willing to facilitate and
support change in service delivery, have the ability to work autonomously and
as part of an integrated skill mix team.
As a health visitor working for Southend City Council you will have access to iHV corporate membership, you will be able to claim NMC professional fees and benefit from the Local Authority pay award each year.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and promote the health of all children and young people, especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the opportunity to achieve optimum development.
To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families and groups utilising best available evidence.
Work in accordance to the commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice.
About us
Southend City Council is a unitary Local Authority
and the 0-19 service is based within the Public Health department. Staff
moving from NHS to Local Authority can maintain their NHS pension.
The borough is diverse, a busy University town with an
attractive seafront, public parks and leisure activities, competitive house
pricing and excellent transport links. Accessible from both Liverpool Street
and Fenchurch Street stations. It offers traditional seaside living that makes
it a fantastic place to live and work.
Working at Southend City Council gives you not only the opportunity to make a difference in the borough you love, but we also have a range of employee benefits, via our partners. There are 5 themes within our ambition:
1. Pride and Joy - Southenders are fiercely proud of, and go out of their way, to champion what our borough has to offer
2. Safe and Well - People in Southend feel safe in all aspects of their lives and are well enough to live fulfilling lives
3. Active and Involved - We have a thriving, active and involved community that feel invested in our city
4. Opportunity and Prosperity - Southend is a successful city and we share our prosperity amongst all of our people
5. Connected and Smart - People can easily get in, out and around our borough and we have a world class digital infrastructure
As a council, our staff are: Inclusive, Collaborative, Proud, and Honest.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and it is implemented in practice, ensuring services are
provided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity,
Universal, targeted, and Specialist.
To promote the health of all children and young people,
especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the
opportunity to achieve optimum development.
To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of
care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence
based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of
support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families
and groups utilising best available evidence.
Work in accordance to the commissioned service
specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required
timescales, services provided are evidence based practice.
To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of
care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence
based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of
support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable
families and groups utilising best available evidence .
To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify
appropriate individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and
or Specilaist cases within the Health Visiting caseload.
To appropriately delegate and supervise workload
within the skill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competency
frameworks.
To provide expert advice, support and interventions to all
families with children in the first years of life.
To identify the needs of individual children, parents and
families (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existing
local services, thereby promoting early intervention.
To operate within Children & Young People Services Child
Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking
appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.
To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences,
providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision
as per policy for Safeguarding children.
Liaise and maintain good working relationships with
statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as
necessary.
Be competent as a non-medical prescriber.
Full job description is attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and it is implemented in practice, ensuring services are
provided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity,
Universal, targeted, and Specialist.
To promote the health of all children and young people,
especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the
opportunity to achieve optimum development.
To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of
care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence
based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of
support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families
and groups utilising best available evidence.
Work in accordance to the commissioned service
specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required
timescales, services provided are evidence based practice.
To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of
care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence
based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of
support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable
families and groups utilising best available evidence .
To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify
appropriate individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and
or Specilaist cases within the Health Visiting caseload.
To appropriately delegate and supervise workload
within the skill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competency
frameworks.
To provide expert advice, support and interventions to all
families with children in the first years of life.
To identify the needs of individual children, parents and
families (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existing
local services, thereby promoting early intervention.
To operate within Children & Young People Services Child
Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking
appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.
To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences,
providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision
as per policy for Safeguarding children.
Liaise and maintain good working relationships with
statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as
necessary.
Be competent as a non-medical prescriber.
Full job description is attached.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Effective oral / written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Skills in managing own workload through effective use of prioritisation.
- Ability to use evidence based, clinically effective interventions in the holistic planning and implementation of family centred care.
- Ability to travel extensively within acceptable time scales.
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
Desirable
- Experience as a Registered Health Visitor.
- Experience of developing and managing groups.
- Computer literacy, knowledge of systmOne.
Additional
Essential
- Current Full UK Driving Licence and car
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Nurse Registration.
- Specialist Community Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Effective oral / written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Skills in managing own workload through effective use of prioritisation.
- Ability to use evidence based, clinically effective interventions in the holistic planning and implementation of family centred care.
- Ability to travel extensively within acceptable time scales.
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team.
Desirable
- Experience as a Registered Health Visitor.
- Experience of developing and managing groups.
- Computer literacy, knowledge of systmOne.
Additional
Essential
- Current Full UK Driving Licence and car
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Nurse Registration.
- Specialist Community Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
