We are seeking a highly motivated Band 6 Health Visitor to join our team and make a difference in the lives of families in our community.
As a Health Visitor with HCRG Care Group, you will have the opportunity to work with families with young children and provide them with essential health and developmental support. Your role will involve conducting assessments, delivering public health programs, and working closely with other health and social care professionals to ensure positive outcomes for families.
We have a part-time role available, so apply now for this exciting opportunity to make a real impact in your community.
Main duties of the job
There is a Healthy Family Team located within a range of districts across central Lancashire and is made up of a multi-disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.
As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you will be responsible for:
* The delivery of the Healthy Child Programme including assessment of health needs, development, implementation and evaluation of packages of care.
* Using the Family Health Needs Assessment tool to plan and evidence care.
* Devise and implement individualized care plans for each child based on a needs assessment, within the Health Visiting Strategy, while actively involving the child/parent/carer/family in the planning and implementation of any proposed programme of care and support.
* Identify and assess health, growth and development in the 0-5 age range (0-19 Pathway).
* Use the Early Help Assessment Tool when there is unmet need identified.
* Participate in effective partnership working with other agencies and taking a lead professional role where appropriate.
* Use evidence-based practice to develop and maintain a high quality and cost-effective standard for Specialist Public Health Nurse/Health Visiting practice.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job responsibilities
As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Lancashire 0-19 service working in the Children in Care team.
You will feel valued as a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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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.
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