Job Introduction
Make a difference to children and families across Lancashire by delivering compassionate, community‑based care.
We are looking for a dedicated and proactive Health Family Practitioner to join our Lancashire Young People & Healthy Families Service. In this role, you will work under the direction of our Health Visitors (SCPHN‑HV), School Nurses (SCPHN‑SN) and Staff Nurses, supporting preschool and primary‑aged children and their families. Your knowledge of child development and commitment to improving health outcomes will help deliver key elements of the Healthy Child Programme and targeted interventions based on need.
You will provide care across a range of community settings—including lone working in family homes—and will be expected to uphold HCRG Care Group’s values by delivering excellent, compassionate care.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre‑1‑Year and 2–2.5‑Year developmental checks, identifying additional needs and referring into specialist services when required.
- Work confidently in community settings, using your own initiative to support families.
- Provide targeted support aligned to your competencies, such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated care packages.
- Facilitate Healthy Family Drop‑In sessions (Child Health Clinics) at designated community sites.
- Support the delivery of Bump, Birth and Beyond sessions.
- Act as a link to nursery settings, supporting early years staff and families.
- Ensure service user voices are captured and fed into service development.
- Contribute to and support risk assessments, ensuring safe working practices in line with health and safety and organisational policies.
- Promote engagement with children, young people and families—acting as an advocate for their views and choices.
- Ensure inclusivity by using appropriate communication tools and services (e.g., language link workers, interpreters).
- Participate in the CAF process, attend meetings, and act as lead professional when appropriate.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, contemporaneous records, including data entry.
- Adhere to local lone working communication systems.
- Engage in supervision, appraisal, and take responsibility for your ongoing professional development.
- Complete all statutory, mandatory and role‑specific training.
- Use organisational resources efficiently and responsibly, reporting any concerns and supporting managers in effective resource use.
About You:
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has sound knowledge of child development and family health.
- Can work autonomously, confidently, and safely in community environments.
- Is compassionate, organised, and committed to delivering high‑quality care.
- Can build trusting relationships with children, families, and partners across education and health.
- Shares our values and is passionate about improving outcomes for young people.
What We Offer:
- A supportive, multidisciplinary team environment
- Opportunities for career development and training
- The chance to shape services based on the needs and voices of families
- The satisfaction of making a meaningful impact within the community
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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