Bank - Health Visitor - NHS
We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
We are looking to recruit band 6 Health Visitors.
Working largely independently, but with the support of a multi-disciplinary team of health professionals, you’ll deliver child health programmes. We’ll depend on you to work in partnership with children’s centres, schools, GPs, social care organisations and voluntary agencies, and to create close relationships with families built on honesty, respect and trust.
About you:You will need to be a specialist community public health nurse, you should have knowledge of safeguarding and other legislation relating to children’s health services and we will support you to develop your safeguarding experience.
If you have 5+ years’ experience as a Health Visitor you will be paid the top of band 6 £22.99 plus High cost area allowance. If you have fewer than 5 years’ experience it will be mid-point of the band £20.15 plus High cost area Allowance.
Main duties of the job
To assess the health needs of the individual, and to involve the client/carer in the process of meeting those health needs.
To monitor the health of children under five years of age, and to involve the family in promoting optimum health and development of all children.
To be aware of deviations from the normal in health and behaviour, and to intervene to protect vulnerable children and adults by prompt action, by referral and working with other agencies as part of a specialist team. Examples include child abuse interventions, special needs assessments, and work with the chronically sick and disabled.
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
Working for our organisation
We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:
- Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
- Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
- My Trust Benefits discount scheme;
- Access to the NHS pension scheme;
- Paid mandatory training;
- Opportunities for locally agreed training;
- Flexibility of hours/location;
- Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
- Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.
NELFT provides health visiting services across four very diverse London boroughs and Essex borough, ranging from areas of poor health and high unemployment to leafy suburbs, we can offer real variety.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To liaise with other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and maintain good working relationships, making referrals and consulting as necessary with the informed consent of clients, and within the policies of the Trust.
Act as a health resource to other agencies.
Be responsive to local health needs, using skills of advocacy as appropriate, eg: committee membership.
Responsible for the management of a team based caseload.
Supplying reports, statistical returns and information as required.
Defining priorities, setting objectives in line with service objectives.
Implementing Child Health Promotion programmes in accordance with the Health Visiting Core Programme.
Organisation of caseload cover in periods of planned absence eg. Annual leave and study leave.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria- Registered Health Visitor Specialist Practice Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience or Equivalent working as a Health Visitor
- Working in multi-professional and skill mix teams
Skills
Essential criteria- Able to communicate highly complex, sensitive or contentious information including child protection to clients, relatives
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Up to date knowledge of legislation and guidance e.g. Every Child matters, Public Health White Paper Choosing health
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans.reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.