Main area: Health Visitor Band 6
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 220-WHT-2872
Employer: Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Various sites
Town: London
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/01/2025 23:59
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19. We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Job overview
Health Visitor Band 6 salary negotiable within £34,961 to £42,010 – including 15% HCA. Plus an additional 5% recruitment and retention. Please telephone for further information.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for practitioners who want to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme this year to the families in Haringey. We can offer you friendly supportive teams, regular supervision and extensive evidence-based training with skills practice to carry out your role. We have an excellent support package in place for Newly Qualified Health Visitors.
Working for our organisation
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 which 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for practitioners who want to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme this year to the families in Haringey.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
* Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent.
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Willingness to develop and support management of change.
* Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral.
* Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
* Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations.
* Collect and monitor data as required.
Knowledge & Experience
* 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.
* Management experience in a health service setting.
Personal Qualities
* Must have ability to build professional and personal credibility.
* Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision.
* Able to exercise initiative.
* Self-motivated.
* Work flexibly to address the needs of the service.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form
* Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
* Make sure you include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the job description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes
* Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
* If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job, unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If you require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
* Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
* Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID.
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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.
Contact Information
Name: Geraldine Butler
Job title: Locality manager
Email address: geraldinebutler@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07961212439
For informal discussions about these opportunities please email the Locality Manager.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: WHT
Telephone: If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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