Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor
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Job overview
We have exciting opportunities for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses to join our Health Visiting service working with children, families, and communities across Bristol & South Gloucestershire. Full time and part time hours considered.
Through your work with families, you will empower them to make decisions that positively impact on their health and wellbeing to improve child outcomes, strengthen our partnership working with other agencies and challenge the wider determinants of health and health inequalities including advocating for those families who find services difficult to access.
Our Health Visiting teams work with families in a variety of setting including the family’s home, local children centre's and community venues, therefore you must be mobile and flexible to visit several locations across a wide geographical area, organised and able to prioritise and manage your time.
In return, we offer a 6-month preceptorship programme for all new staff, regular clinical supervision, on-going safeguarding support, and access to a wide variety of training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, you will provide expert advice, support, and interventions to families with children in the first years of life and help to empower parents to make decisions that positively affect their family’s future health and wellbeing.
The main duties of the role include:
- The delivery of the full-service offer of mandated contacts underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme.
- To work collaboratively with other agencies to promote health and well-being and improve early identification of need and risks to improve child outcomes.
- To empower individuals, families, and communities to influence and access services and information and act as an advocate particularly for those families who find services difficult to access.
- Contribute to safeguarding of children in collaboration with partners using national and local policies to guide professional decision making and action.
The service in South Gloucestershire is led by Health Visitors and supported by a skill mix team.
Working for our organisation
Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. It's time to turn your dream into reality!
We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.
Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits we offer.
Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find as an attachment on this vacancy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Sirona care & health currently recruit overseas nursing and therapy staff through an NHS Trust Supplier and we adhere to the NHSE Code of Practice in relation to applicants from Red List countries. We are therefore, unable to accept any direct applications to this advert from candidates who are not already based in the UK.
This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- NMC registration
- SCPHN Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for local families and communities
- An understanding of the roles and contributions of members of the health visiting team at primary health care team and community leve
- Demonstrate experience of working in partnership with parents using a solution focussed approach and appropriate assessment skills and tools that clearly demonstrate child and family strengths and support needs focussed on the 6 high impact areas.
- An understanding of the implications of cultural difference on appropriate, accessible and sensitive service delivery.
- Group facilitation skills – either with parents or students or colleagues