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Health Visitor and Clinical Quality Fellow
Band 6
Main area Health Visitor Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 824-SOUTH-7012478
Site Causeway House Town Teddington Salary £42,939 - £50,697 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 06/03/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Leading, influencing and delivering a comprehensive Health Visiting service in line with the Healthy Child Programme and local service specifications for health visiting that meets the public health needs of local communities.
You will undertake the Health Visitor role for 80% of your clinical time. 20% of your role will be dedicated to working within a structured 6-9 month work-based programme working under the supervision of the Public Health Nurse Consultant. You will identify, design and manage a project focusing on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
* Focus on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities
* Measure, monitor and report population health and wellbeing; health needs, risks, and inequalities; for a specific chosen area of your work
* Audit, evaluate and re-design services and interventions for a specific chosen area of your work to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities
* Work with, and through, policies and strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities
* Clinical Duties
* Management and Leadership
* Quality and Performance
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
* Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up)
* Flexible working options
* Training, support and development in your career
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse/Health Visitor (SCPHN) with current UK NMC registration
* Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
* Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards
Experience
* Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
* Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
* Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
* Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
* Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
* Experience of evidence based care
* Experience of supervising staff / students
Skills
* Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
* Knowledge of current health legislation, including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc.
* Current knowledge of child protection issues
* Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Key Attributes
* Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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