Health Visitors

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Health Visitor within the Health & Childrens Centre team, you will be working directly with families to help support the social, emotional, physical and intellectual wellbeing of children, from pregnancy to 5 years. Working in partnership with the Health & Childrens Centre Manager you will support in leading the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-5 (HCP) helping plan and review service delivery to ensure it is high quality and delivers outcomes for children.

You will offer universal contacts at key milestones, whilst focusing on the needs of those families on a universal partnership plus pathway as outlined in the Health & Childrens Centre Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and in accordance with clinical governance framework. You will work in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, and other regulatory guidelines, ensuring your NMC registration is maintained.

Through effective practice and multiagency working, you will safeguard children and young people, which will include participation in safeguarding meetings, and undertaking all relevant assessments. You will act as the Lead Professional for named families, being the key contact with the family and liaising with other professionals to provide a joined-up response.

For those staff with the educational requirements to assess students on a SCPHN programme, you will be paid at Grade 7 for the duration of the students course/placement/supervision.

What you will be expected to deliver in the role

Apply strengths-based approach to practice consistent with that of Signs of Safety and the Signs of Safety principles, disciplines and tools.

To work alongside families where there are signs of social, emotional health or behavioural issues and support those who need additional support and targeted intervention.

To participate in CAF, multi-agency assessment, statutory assessments and other relevant assessment processes and offer management oversight where required.

To attend and act as Lead professional at Family Network meetings / Child in Need / Child Protection meetings including when there is a transfer down to universal plus pathway as required, being he key contact with the family and liaising with other professionals to provide a joined-up response.

To work and develop ongoing relationships with other agencies to effectively intervene and support families where there are concerns about parenting capacity, adult mental health, alcohol or substance misuse, domestic abuse and neglect.

Work with families to support behaviour change leading to the role modelling of healthy lifestyles and their role as a childs first educator.

To provide information and signposting for children, young people and families to relevant universal and specialist services in the local area and beyond, empowering families to help themselves.

Provide and receive supervision/preceptorship in accordance with clinical governance guidelines.

Create and maintain an appropriate learning environment, support colleagues to meet the educational and developmental needs of all team members, including students.

To work with the managers and team in the completion of quality assurance processes, including audit.

To undertake direct observation of practice, with effective feedback to offer quality assurance.

Offer management oversight on delegated work monitoring thresholds and ensuring that child and family records are accurate and up-to-date in line with policies and procedures.

Provide regular data analysis with trends and forecast to support service delivery.

To oversee successful completion of Quality Assurance processes within team.

Alongside the manager, respond to needs and gaps analyses and research findings by developing and implementing solutions which include the voices of the communities and families.

Attend all Mandatory training as required.

Although this list provides examples of what you will be doing its not intended to be exhaustive and you will have personal objectives linked to our People Plans and Strategies that will be discussed and agreed with your line manager when you start.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1.Current Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse/ Midwife.
• 2.Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Health Visiting qualification.

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

Suffolk County Council

Address

8 Russell Road

Ipswich

Suffolk

IP1 2BX

Employer's website

https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)