Do you have passion and commitment to public health and the early intervention agenda and want to work in Yardley District?
BCHC is committed to providing a good work-life balance, therefore offering flexible/agile working to all our staff. We are looking for passionate and committed Health Visitors who are highly skilled, enthusiastic, clinical practitioners and have a good understanding of the needs of children, young people and their families and want to be part of our journey to work as part of an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.
If you want to give every child an equal chance to have the best start in life so they can achieve their full potential, this post would be well suited to you.
There are development opportunities that support career progression within health visiting. We have a number of Band 7 posts that can be considered alongside either clinical or management development.
BCHC also support practitioners who have been out of practice for a while, and offer a Return to Practice framework, all of the above can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for assessing need and providing health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population. The post holder will work within a corporate caseload as well as with the local population on children and family centred public health related issues.
The post holder will be a first level registered nurse with a Health Visiting Degree/Diploma/ Certificate. The post holder will work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
You will be responsible for:
* Day-to-day management and delegation of work to nursery nurses, link workers and any other support staff within the team (including supervision and monitoring the work of these staff)
* Overseeing and planning in-service development for these staff
Job responsibilities
* To consistently demonstrate in all relationships with families, colleagues and partner professionals, the BCHC Trust Values and the 6 Cs of nursing of commitment, competence, courage, communication, compassion and care in the role of Health Visitor.
* To work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice case load, families using local children’s centres early education clusters, and other health partners.
* To deliver the health child programme through compassionate caring assessment and analysis of need.
* To formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to need.
* To carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities.
* To give evidence based advice on health issues to members of the local population.
* To maintain quality standards of care using audit and other monitoring systems.
* To identify vulnerable children in need of protection and refer to Social Care and Health.
* To attend team around the family meetings, case conferences, and undertake responsibilities as agreed in the multiagency child protection plan.
* To develop and maintain effective working relationships with families, primary healthcare team, and other professionals.
* To ensure all equipment used by professionals in clinic settings are maintained and fit for purpose.
* To promote and support immunisation programmes offered nationally.
* To enter all data required on the data collection system accurately and on time.
* To attend and actively participate in staff meetings.
* To ensure all written records are kept to the required NMC standard.
* To deal with and support families through difficult family situations.
* To have ongoing responsibility for the management of a caseload.
* To provide professional advice on issues relating to Health Visiting.
* To supervise, mentor and assess pre-registration student nurses on placement.
BCHC fully supports a positive work life balance and currently has Health Visitor vacancies for full-time and part-time opportunities with flexible working hours.
Person Specification
Qualification
* Registered First Level Nurse Health Visitor Certificate/Diploma/Degree
* Evidence of recent professional development
Skills/Knowledge
* Knowledge of evidence based approaches in the provision of the Healthy Child Programme
* Evidence of assessment and care planning skills
* Ability to facilitate the learning of others in a one to one or group setting
* Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence base for the Healthy Child programme, and the 6 High impact areas for 0-5s
* Ability to demonstrate written skills that are relevant, accurate, concise and legible
* Ability to work in a supervisory capacity
* Ability to demonstrate a commitment to Non Medical Prescribing
Other job requirements
* Independently mobile with ability to travel to fulfil job requirements
* Ability to occasionally work flexible hours, which may include weekends and evenings
Experience
* Evidence of postregistration nursing experience
* Evidence of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and safeguarding children
* Evidence of time and resource management
* Experience of applying learning into practice
* Experience of caseload management
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.
Service Clinical Manager - Health Visiting
£37,338 to £44,962 a year (pro rata)
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