Job Introduction
As a Health Visitor you’ll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence! Your days will be rewarding and varied and include delivering a high quality, proactive service for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.
We currently have a full time opportunity working 37.5 hours across the week based at the Highpost Hub, Salisbury.
Please contact Alison Bull on 07976750867 or alison.bull2@hcrgcaregroup.com for more information
Main Responsibility
As a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, you'll join a team who are focused on making an impact on the development and wellbeing of children in our local community.
You will:
- Lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme within a designated population area
- assess health needs and implementing interventions with a focus on personalised or targeted responses, utilizing team skills effectively.
- Take accountability for children's outcomes collaborating with partners to address public health needs
- Promote health and well-being through the Healthy Child Programme and referrals to partner agencies as needed
- Contribute to multi-agency early support assessments for children and families, taking on a lead professional role when necessary.
- Manage a caseload autonomously ensuring effective assessment, intervention, and management.
- Model excellence in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice, providing supervision to learners and colleagues.
- Provide management and leadership to community nursery nurses and other team members, including caseload allocation and monitoring.
The Ideal Candidate
- SCPHN qualification with current NMC registratio
- Leadership experience in health visiting teams and implementing interventions for child and family welfare.
- Proficiency in health visiting tools/programs to enhance child outcomes.
- Valid driver's license and access to a car for work.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Health Visitor you’ll be part of our valued team at within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 a number 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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
