Job Introduction
Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive?
Do you want to make a real difference across the 0–5 age group as part of a friendly, dedicated 0–19 team?
We’re looking for a committed and caring Healthy Family Practitioner to join our Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service. Based primarily within our Duty Team, you’ll play a vital role in responding to parent/carer enquiries, offering evidence‑based guidance, and supporting the smooth running of our service under the direction of a Health Visitor or Team Leader.
If you’re a compassionate communicator with a strong grounding in child development, this could be your perfect next step.
What you'll be doing:
As a key member of our 0–19 team, you’ll:
Duty Responsibilities
- Provide timely responses to queries via phone or virtual platforms.
Topics may include feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor ailments, behaviour and general parenting support. - Undertake initial assessments and triage, coordinating onward referrals to HVs, HFPs or services such as SALT, physiotherapy, smoking cessation or sexual health.
- Offer follow‑up calls to monitor family progress and outcomes.
- Liaise with other professionals as directed by the HV or Team Leader.
- Recognise, document and escalate safeguarding concerns.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous electronic health records.
- Support Team Leaders by communicating staff changes, cancellations or sickness reports.
- Carry out any delegated tasks to support smooth service delivery.
Clinical & Community Work
You will also contribute to wider service delivery by:
- Completing delegated Healthy Child Programme contacts (3–4 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2–2.5 years and school‑readiness checks).
- Facilitating Healthy Family Drop‑Ins / Child Health Clinics within local Family Hubs.
- Providing targeted interventions including behaviour management, infant feeding and sleep support.
- Helping deliver Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions across the East locality (evenings, 17:30–19:30).
- Acting as a link to nurseries and early years settings.
- Participating in CAF/Early Help processes and acting as lead professional when appropriate.
Safeguarding & Risk
- Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns in line with policy.
- Participate in risk assessments relating to staff, clients and environments.
- Follow lone working, infection control and health & safety procedures.
- Report incidents, accidents and near misses promptly.
What we're looking for:
Essential Qualifications
- NNEB or equivalent qualification (e.g., BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing).
Experience
- Experience in health promotion or public health.
- Experience working within a team environment.
- An understanding of child protection and safeguarding principles.
Skills & Knowledge
- Strong understanding of child development and parenting.
- Flexible, adaptable and able to meet varying service needs.
- Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.
- Confident in maintaining accurate, detailed and timely records.
- Able to contribute to audits, quality improvement and research.
- Skilled in developing and implementing action plans with children and families.
- Excellent written and verbal communication across agencies and disciplines.
- IT literate with confidence using digital systems and platforms.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development.
- Understanding of clinical governance and safe practice.
Why join us?
At HCRG Care Group, our values guide everything we do:
We Care. We Think. We Do.
You’ll be part of a supportive team that truly believes in empowering families and giving children the best start in life.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £26, 712 with access to our group pension
- 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
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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