Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Exciting opportunity for Health Visitors to undertake a Specialist Health Visitor role within the Winchester Health Visiting Team. The successful candidate will provide specialist knowledge, supervision, advice, and support to team members working with communities, families and individuals with additional needs and vulnerabilities. This role will hold a caseload with capacity to deliver the expert specialist role to team members.
The role will strengthen safeguarding knowledge and skills within the team, focusing on assessment, analysis of need, care planning and service delivery which improve public health outcomes for children and families and reduce risk of future health inequalities.
We are looking for Specialist Health Visitors to support team members by providing safeguarding supervision as a key function of the role and expert support with complex report writing, inter-agency referrals and attendance at statutory and multi-agency meetings.
We are looking for a qualified Health Visitor who wishes to develop their clinical skills while maintaining a caseload. We need individuals with inspirational and motivational behaviours, highly skilled in communication, with a strong approach to teamwork. This individual will be someone who can use their expertise to lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to ensure better outcomes for our vulnerable families. Working as a team player, your role will require excellent assessment and analysis skills and effective partnership working.
Main duties of the job
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust is well known for its creative approach in supporting our communities, children and families with great innovations including ChatHealth, our Text Messaging Advice Service; the Parent Portal, an interactive web-based information hub for parents and our partnership with Barnardo's which offers community-based public health programmes. We are proud of having achieved BFI accreditation at gold standard.
In our trust we are committed to ensuring that our values are the foundation of everything we do. We offer great opportunities for learning and development for all staff and a range of wellbeing services. We will provide an induction programme to meet your needs with comprehensive safeguarding and clinical supervision along with a range of clinical, leadership and professional training opportunities to aid your development.
If improving outcomes for children and families within a supportive working environment is your passion, we look forward to receiving your application. Good luck.
A car driver and access to a car that can be used for work purposes is essential for this post.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse/Midwife
* BSc Hons Public Health Specialist Practitioner (Health Visiting) or equivalent
* Education to MSc level or 3 years experience post SCPHN BSc qualification
* NMC Registered Part 3
* Full UK Driving Licence (and access to a car)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Based on full-time hours
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