Job Introduction
Join our team as a Bank Healthy Family Practitioner!
Earn extra money and work a schedule that suits you best by joining our lovely team on the bank.
The post holder will work across the Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service with preschool and primary school aged children and their families. You will utilise your knowledge of child developmental milestones to provide key elements of the Healthy Child Programme and targeted provision based on need as delegated by a SCPHN/ Team Leader and members of the wider team.
Main Responsibility
In addition to supporting the team to provide excellent quality of care to families, you will also be responsible for the following:
- To undertake mandated Health reviews as delegated, for example Pre 1 year and 2-2.5year Developmental checks. Identify children who may need further support and refer into specialist services as required
- You will have the confidence to work in a community setting and have the ability to work under your own initiative
- To provide targeted support for children and families in line with your competencies, as delegated by Health Visitor, School Nurse or Staff Nurse, for example behaviour management, infant feeding and other delegated packages of Care
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be passionate about helping young children and families as well as having:
- Child Development Qualification or Equivalent
- Evidence of personal and professional development
- Experience in working with children - observing, assessing and recording their developmental milestones
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Bank Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £13.48 per hour
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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