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Health Visiting (HV) Clinical Practice Assessor
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area Clinical Practice Assessor /Practice Educators Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment for internal candidates) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 349-LCO-7044049*
Site Rusholme Health Centre Town Manchester Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
Manchester Health Visiting Service
Clinical Practice Assessor /Practice Educators
We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Health Visitor who is ready to further develop leadership and teaching skills by becoming a Practice Assessor. You can help us to shape and develop our service for the future, a forward thinking Health Visiting Service in Manchester.
Can you provide professional leadership to team colleagues, supporting and developing practice? Support and educate students and provide training packages to ensure the workforce is informed of evidence-based practice updates?
Successful applicants can benefit from our commitment to their professional development, with all the support you need to progress your career (including named peer support). You will also enjoy a full range of benefits, including a final salary pension scheme and subsidised childcare provision, as well as flexible working support.
Main duties of the job
Our health visiting teams work to design and deliver services in partnership with local people. We also provide key services that work across wider localities and the city-wide footprint. We believe that our pioneering approach will make a massive difference to the health of people in our city and we are looking for you to join our team and help us do this.
We’re committed to achieving the highest standards of individual care for our city’s diverse communities. At the heart of this is the ‘Healthy Child Programme’ which, through early intervention, will positively influence health outcomes for children and families in Manchester.
As a Practice Assessor you will provide clinical, educational and professional guidance to Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visiting) during their training. Through working with staff directly you will link theory to practice within the community setting enhancing evidence-based practice.
You will be expected to act as a knowledge resource for members of the service working closely with the team lead to support developments within health visiting.
Visiting various families, including some of the most vulnerable, you’ll offer positive influence to the early years of their child’s development and family health.
As a result of service transformation and substantial investment exciting opportunities have arisen in Manchester’s Health Visiting service.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse/RSCN
* Registered Specialist Community Nurse Health Visitor
* Evidence of Management / Leadership Development
* Experience of supporting learners in a clinical environment.
* Teaching and assessing qualification experience
Knowledge and Understanding
* Knowledge and experience of community development
* Knowledge and understanding of national and local strategic drivers for HV service development
* Understanding of the HCP
* Quality and performance in health care
* Understanding of public health agenda
* Project Management
* Delivering Training
* Experience of Investigations
Skills
* Professional Leadership Skills
* Caseload Management Skills
* Knowledge of Community development
* Clinical supervision skills
* Audit and evaluation skills
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.
Name Michelle Edwards Job title Health Visiting Team Lead Central Manchester Email address michelle.edwards@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 07969 175944 Additional information
Maria Graham
Head of Service - health visiting
maria.graham@mft.nhs.uk
07866 915059
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