Job summary
We are keen to recruit a Specialist Health Visitor to work with us in East Early Years CAMHS. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a service which is keen to develop and innovate. The post will cover the areas of Wrexham and Flintshire.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team of professionals focused on parent-infant/early years mental health, working closely with a range of services across the early years network.
Working closely with Health Visiting and other professionals, you will undertake specialist therapeutic interventions focusing on the family and parent-infant dyad, including via groups. The post holder will offer consultation to families, health professionals, and to multiagency colleagues. An essential component of the role is to build capacity and support the wider system around families by promoting knowledge and skills related to infant/early years mental health, including supporting training and supervision in evidence-based interventions. You will have ample opportunities to contribute to service development and audit, and to develop your leadership, supervision and consultation skills.
Regular clinical supervision will be provided by a clinical psychologist, and professional supervision will be provided by the service manager for health visiting.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and 'Proud to Lead' competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the "Disability Confident Employer" scheme.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting)
- Relevant Post Registration experience at Masters level
- Specialist knowledge of infant mental health, child development and neurodevelopment, including knowledge of attachment theory
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures
- Knowledge of child protection procedures and an ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children
Desirable
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions, both individual and group.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working professionally with pregnant women, fathers, infants, young children and families in the early years.
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups.
- Experience of families presenting high levels of complexity.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency
- Experience of carrying out infant observation
- Experience working within their speciality; this must include regular contact with infants and their families or caregivers and preferably also include work with teenage parents.
- Experience of delivering interventions within families
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of working using trauma informed approaches
- Experience of delivering parent/infant therapeutic interventions
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to actively contribute to team discussions and skill development.
- Ability to contribute to reflective supervision within the team as in other settings.
- Ability to reflect on, and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to demonstrate situations where effective leadership and management skills have been used, or:
- Be able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when working with others, or:
- Evidence of undertaking presentation to groups.
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Understanding of and an ability to demonstrate clinical applications of specialist knowledge of child development and attachment, along with evidence based interventions in this area.
- Ability to offer appropriate teaching and training in a flexible, responsive manner in different settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting)
- Relevant Post Registration experience at Masters level
- Specialist knowledge of infant mental health, child development and neurodevelopment, including knowledge of attachment theory
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures
- Knowledge of child protection procedures and an ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children
Desirable
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions, both individual and group.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working professionally with pregnant women, fathers, infants, young children and families in the early years.
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups.
- Experience of families presenting high levels of complexity.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency
- Experience of carrying out infant observation
- Experience working within their speciality; this must include regular contact with infants and their families or caregivers and preferably also include work with teenage parents.
- Experience of delivering interventions within families
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of working using trauma informed approaches
- Experience of delivering parent/infant therapeutic interventions
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to actively contribute to team discussions and skill development.
- Ability to contribute to reflective supervision within the team as in other settings.
- Ability to reflect on, and critically appraise own performance.
- Able to demonstrate situations where effective leadership and management skills have been used, or:
- Be able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when working with others, or:
- Evidence of undertaking presentation to groups.
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Understanding of and an ability to demonstrate clinical applications of specialist knowledge of child development and attachment, along with evidence based interventions in this area.
- Ability to offer appropriate teaching and training in a flexible, responsive manner in different settings.
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).
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.
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).
