Job Introduction
We are looking for Health Visitor's to join our UNICEF Baby Friendly Accredited Wiltshire Health Visiting service. You will join our Derby Court, Trowbridge team who are focused on clinical excellence!
You will play a vital role in ensuring that every child gets the best start in life through delivering health promotion and core services to children 0-5 and their families in Salisbury and surrounding areas as part of the Healthy Child Programme. You will require excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work in partnership with other teams and agencies, good communication skills and a passion for improving outcomes for children and families.
Our Trowbridge Team are innovative and progressive with a focus on fostering development for all their staff with opportunities for apprenticeships and other development opportunities. We have opportunities for full and part-time hours.
If you are dedicated to improving health and quality for children, we would love to hear from you. We also welcome applications from newly qualified SCPHN Students.
Main Responsibility
“I thoroughly enjoy waking up and going to work every day and I am as dedicated to my work as the organisation is dedicated towards my health and wellbeing”
As a Health Visitor you will:
- Deliver and promote the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions.
- Take responsibility for the outcomes of the children and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
- Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
- Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.
- Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
If you would like more information please see attached Job Description for a full list of responsibilities or contact Pippa Sparks on Pippa.Sparks@hcrgcaregroup.com
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will:
- Have SCPHN Health Visitor qualification.
- Hold current NMC registration
- A driving license and access to a car for work purposes
- Ability to work with electronic health records
- Working knowledge of the tools and programmes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
Package Description
As a band 6 Health Visitor, you'll be part of our valued team at our Derby Court, Trowbridge location.
You will feel valued as a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 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 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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