Communication and relationship skills Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/ understanding e.g. child protection, domestic violence bereavement and where English is not the first language. Ensure effective communication with all members of multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency partners, in particular childrens centres, early years providers, social services and GP practices. Ensure all information about patients is treated confidentially and comply with trust policies on data protection, information sharing and governance Participate in team and other meetings as required Knowledge, training and experience A recognised child care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC national diploma Minimum of 2 years post qualification relevant experience A sound knowledge of child development Communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams. Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients. Possessing an up to date personal development plan showing evidence of continuing professional development To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date. Analytical and judgement skills Assess, implement and plan services under the guidance of the community health nurse/health visitor Ability to use observation skills and feedback to team members Evaluate individual and community health care programmes in collaboration with the community health nurse/health visitor Planning and organisational skills Responsible for planning own work To facilitate group work on relevant health promotion topics Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients To ensure statutory and mandatory training is up to date in line with organisational policy Physical skills Keyboard skills Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner Responsibility for client care To work in collaboration with the service in implementing and evaluating individual and community health care programmes To participate in the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities. To implement and plan services with individual families under the guidance of the health visitor Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult protection guidelines and procedures Ensure effective communication with clients and colleagues To ensure the provision of a high quality service that is led by client need and is evidence based Access clinical supervision as per trust policy Responsibility for policy and service development implementation To support the health visiting team in service and practice development initiatives to improve standards and outcomes. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources Comply with the trusts standing orders and standing financial instructions Responsible for the safe and careful use of equipment in clinics and during home visits (e.g. weighing scales) Responsibilities for human resources (HR) To adhere to all organisational policy and procedures To provide support and advice to other colleagues within the team. Responsibilities for information resources Responsibility for timely accurate record keeping and safeguarding client confidentiality by adhering to caldicott principles Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, management and evaluation. Please see the JD attached for further information