B6 Duty Team Health Visitor
Are you a passionate Health Visitor eager to make a transformative impact on families and children during their crucial first five years? If so, we have an incredible opportunity just for you!
Join us at the Barnet 0-19 Service, now proudly a part of Whittington Health Trust, which serves vibrant communities across five North London boroughs.
Why Choose Us?
* Be Part of a Diverse and Dynamic Community: Barnet is a bustling, richly diverse borough where you'll find endless opportunities to collaborate with a variety of partners and make a real difference.
* Integrated, Supportive Team: Our 0-19 Service team is friendly, supportive, and united by a common goal - to put children and their families at the heart of everything we do.
* Innovative Training and Development: We believe in continuous growth. Benefit from our robust training programs and stimulating professional development opportunities designed to expand your skillset.
* Flexible Working: We understand the importance of work-life balance. We can support you with flexible working arrangements where suitable.
* Prioritising Your Wellbeing: At Whittington Health, your wellbeing is our priority. You can access a wide range of support and resources to ensure you're always at your best.
Main Duties of the Job
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP. The focus of this specific role within the wider administrative and duty clinical team is to:
* Provide evidence-based health promotion advice to families on various issues such as sleep, growth, development, and toilet training.
* Signpost families correctly to available resources and services in Barnet to meet identified needs.
* Provide information to other professionals and agencies as appropriate.
* Support the movement in and movement out process of clinical records ensuring timely responses to requests for information and access to local services.
* Support and contribute to the implementation of a single point of contact, service developments, standard setting, clinical audit, and benchmarking to deliver needs-led evidence-based care that supports local and national priorities and policies.
About Us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce that is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion, and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
For full details of the role and main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Excellent communication skills: IT, written, and oral.
* Willingness to develop and support management of change.
* Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities, and stressful situations.
* Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Collect and monitor data as required.
Desirable
* Management experience in a health service setting.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme.
* The ability to identify, respond to, and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
* Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements, and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
* Knowledge of infection control standards.
* Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Must have the ability to build professional and personal credibility.
* Must have the ability to recognise own need for support and supervision.
* Able to exercise initiative.
* Self-motivated.
* Work flexibly to address the needs of the service.
Desirable
* Car driver.
Education / Qualifications
Essential
* Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable
* Educated to degree level or equivalent.
* Practice Assessor/Supervisor Training.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Various sites
Barnet
London
N3 1HF
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
220-WHT-2870
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