Health Visitor | Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking Chesterfield locality.
The Chesterfield 0-19 Team are a Gold accredited locality for their work with Families and Communities.
DCHS is a forward-thinking, supportive Trust, who are a baby-friendly, accredited organisation and achieved Outstanding CQC status in 2019.
Working in a diverse locality you will find that there are lots of opportunities for developing public health work with communities and partner agencies, as well as delivering the core contacts within the Healthy Child Programme.
The right candidate will hold the SCPHN qualification in Health Visiting and the V100 and be an innovative and dynamic team player who is looking for a new challenge.
To deliver the public health role as a SCPHN Health Visitor working with communities and partner agencies and delivering the core contacts within the Healthy Child Programme.- To provide health visiting services to families in the community team caseload by delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
- To manage a defined active caseload and take responsibility for Safeguarding Children issues within that caseload.
- To have continuing responsibility for the assessment of individuals needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
- To prescribe according to assessed individual need from the Nurse Prescribing Formulary.
- To manage a team of health visiting support staff.
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. To apply, please click ON APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site, you will need to register if you do not already have an account.
As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa’s and Immigration.
After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Feb 2025