Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors) work within Wiltshire Children’s Community Services to lead and deliver 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.
Responsibilities
1. Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area, delivering the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs, and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response.
2. Take responsibility for the outcomes of the children within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
3. Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
4. Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing, including partnership working with other agencies.
5. Promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the Healthy Child Programme and signposting, referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
6. Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
7. Co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors, acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
8. Understand the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding, using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.
9. Exhibit excellence in and role model the standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice for the supervision of learners and colleagues.
10. Develop the health visiting service in the defined locality through proactive leadership and innovative practice to meet health needs.
11. Work flexibly across organisational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with HRCG policies and priorities.
Leadership and Communication Skills
1. Develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other health visitors through project development and further training.
2. Use evidence-based practice to develop and maintain high quality and cost-effective standards for Specialist Public Health Nurse/health visiting practice.
3. Provide management and leadership to community nursery nurses and other skill mix team members, including allocation meetings, delegation of the mandated visits of the Healthy Child Programme, interventions caseload monitoring and support.
4. Plan, develop and co-ordinate the public health agenda and interventions for the early year’s population in the locality area for the skill mix team to deliver.
5. Have a working knowledge of the Virgin Care policies and procedures and implement them as appropriate, participating in the development of new policies as required.
6. Act as a champion and facilitate change within the health visiting strategy, participating in teams to develop practice and pathways to improve care processes.
7. Participate in staff appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members and ensuring appropriate training is provided and utilised positively in practice.
Professional Responsibilities
1. Adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and be conversant with NMC Advisory papers.
2. Maintain professional registration.
3. Participate in the professional supervision of team members to ensure that standards are maintained and poor performance is addressed through developmental action plans.
4. Maintain professional relationships within Virgin Care and with other agencies.
5. Work within Information Governance guidelines in the protection of data.
6. Participate in mandatory training and take responsibility for identifying own professional development needs.
7. Participate in the orientation and induction of colleagues, visitors and other staff.
8. Foster the development of HCRG Care Group as a learning and teaching organisation.
9. Participate in training programmes for pre-registration nurses, SCPHN and others on community placements.
10. Participate in clinical supervision and facilitate the same for other members of the health visiting team.
Minimum Requirements
1. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification.
2. Current NMC registration on third part of the register.
3. Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams.
4. Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families.
5. Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners.
6. Working knowledge of the tools and programmes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
7. Car driver and use of car for work.
8. Ability to work with electronic health records and IT systems.
9. Qualification in leadership and innovative practice.
10. Experience in line management and developing teams.
11. Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners.
12. Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
13. Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes.
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