Job summary POST: Fixed Term Contract/ Part Time Specialist Community Public Health Nurse/Health Visitor LOCATION: Plymouth Locality HOURS: 22.5 hours per week. Fixed term Contract Are you a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse/HV looking to join a team for a career within Community Public Health Nursing in Plymouth? Then we would like to hear from you An opportunity has arisen for a temporary contract to cover maternity leave within the Health Visiting Service within Livewell Southwest.` You will be entering the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Services at a time of exciting changes and opportunities, as we have recently secured a long term contract for over 7 Years for Childrens Public Health Nursing. If you are a team player, with excellent communication skills, and are forward thinking and motivated to deliver services to children, young people and their families, we would like to hear from you. Informal enquiries to: Irene Wilson or Emma Congdon on 01752 435370. Main duties of the job Main duties will be working within a locality PHN team to deliver the Healthy Child programme 0 - 5yrs Carrying out Assessments at key points in the first 5 years with children and families to support health and development. The role includes working with families and children in their homes nurseries /schools and clinics. As a Health Visitor you will be expected to carry a case load and manage complex cases with access to supervision. You will liaise and work as required in multi agency partnerships including Children's Social Care, Children's centres, GP's, Local Hospital and engage with Police Education Local Authority and voluntary agencies. This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility. Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity. All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service. About us Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs. As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve. We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives. We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation. Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert. Date posted 07 April 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 6 Salary £37,338 to £44,962 a year pa, pro-rata Contract Fixed term Duration 8 months Working pattern Part-time, Job share, Flexible working Reference number B9832-2025-NM-9620 Job locations 200 Mount Gould Road Mount Gould Plymouth Devon PL4 7PY Job description Job responsibilities Professional Duties & Responsibilities: To practice the principles of Community Public Health Nursing as reflected in the wider definition described in the NMC competencies. Search for Health needs including surveillance and assessment. Stimulation of awareness of Health needs including strategic leadership, promoting and protecting health. Influence on policies affecting health including developing quality and risk management, policy and strategic development. Facilitation of health enhancing activities including developing services and programs working with and for communities, working alongside children's centres to deliver Great Expectations. A requirement to work occasional Saturdays and evenings to deliver such activities. There are frequent requirements for concentration and the work pattern is unpredictable. Occasionally within the course of employment attendance to court may be required to give evidence. There is constant change management/process affecting community service delivery. There is exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional situations, some potentially dangerous situations in the community, e.g. Drug & Alcohol Misuse, Violence and clients displaying mental health symptoms. Specialist Community Public Health Nurses deal with highly emotionally charged clients to safeguard children. The frequency of exposure is variable. SCPHN are expected to be flexible and adaptable working in different bases to cover colleagues and service provision during sickness and study leave and utilising the resources available to them. They are easily accessible to the public, receive and cope with frequent interruptions throughout the day. During visits they may be required to work in unpleasant home environments, e.g. dirty, excrement, aggression. Likelihood of movement of base due to changing practice. To have specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practice underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience. To encourage the uptake of immunisations. To act as an advocate for clients, liaising with agencies within and outside the health service. To participate in and initiate multi-agency, activities and meetings as required. To work in partnership with children, young people and families to identify health needs that promote and support a healthy lifestyle. To take appropriate action in response to any deviation from the normal which may include referral to team members or other agencies. To identify children in need and respond in line with national and local requirements. To take responsibility for prescribing appropriate treatments in line with the Nurse Prescribing Formulary, Community Pharmacy Guidelines and LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Protocols. If trained to do so. To be the Lead Practitioner for families here there are identified Child Welfare concerns. To be responsible for managing, organising and promoting the needs of the caseload and neighbourhood public health.. To take an innovative approach to practice in response to a changing service. To actively participate in Clinical and Professional Governance and Team Meetings by regular attendance, contributing to the content and agenda and provide evidence of participation. To be actively involved in the delivery of the NHS Public Health agenda as identified in the citywide Public Health Development Plan. To actively seek and promote client participation in planning delivery and evaluation of services. To be responsible for seeking to influence policy and strategic planning affecting service delivery. To take a leadership role as service delivery requires, for example Specialist Interest Group, working parties. To ensure that equipment used during delivery of a Health Visiting Service is maintained appropriately. To participate in supervision and line management as per policy. To participate in regular Clinical, Line Management and Caseload Supervision, as per Policies. To participate in the recruitment and selection process of prospective employees, for example SCPHN, Student SCPHN, Skill mix team members. To be a Line Manager to Band 2, 3, 4 and 5 as identified by the Team Manager To provide supervised staff with Individual Performance Review (IPR) as per LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Policy. To be responsible for management of annual leave, study leave and sick leave of supervised staff. To manage disciplinary issues and complaints following LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Protocols and procedures. To supervise and facilitate student placements as required. To contribute to LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST requirements for data collection and sharing of information. To access annual Individual Performance Review, identify training needs and develop a continuing professional development plan. To facilitate and provide practice based teaching and training to colleagues and identify opportunities for knowledge sharing within other organisations. To have a professional responsibility to ensure that supervised staff access the training as identified in the Individual Performance Review. To provide mentorship/ preceptorship to newly qualified or appointed staff. To utilize the framework of Clinical Governance to learn from critical incidents and apply to practice. To ensure that skills in audit and research are maintained. To assist in LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST wide research and audit, as required. To maintain a personal professional portfolio of continuing professional development as required by the NMC. Responsible for participating in audit and data entry thus demonstrating contribution to LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST targets. To work within the clinical effectiveness framework (Essence of Care) using available evidence, research and audit to plan, implement and evaluate care. To attend in service training required by the needs of the service and organisation. Specialist Community Public Health Nurses are required:- To be accountable for their actions and those of others. To use their initiative to act independently. To interpret policy, write guidelines and standards as required applying to health visiting practice. To work as an autonomous practitioner within a Locality Health visiting Team accountable for the management of a defined caseload, for example Primary Care Team, Corporate, Geographical. To communicate clearly and work effectively with team members providing a seamless service. To communicate with clients at a time and level appropriate to their needs in a manner that promotes positive health. To communicate clearly, relevant information to a variety of health professionals at the appropriate times, with a client's consent. To communicate in an effective manner with educational settings, local people and groups to promote healthy lifestyles within the community. To listen to families in highly stressed situations such as a Child Protection, Domestic Violence, Drug Misuse and Homelessness in a supportive containing way to promote healthy future lifestyles. To have an ability to give complex information in stressful situations where there are significant barriers to acceptance and understanding, for example informing clients of necessity to refer to Social Services. To maintain confidentiality with sensitive information when supporting clients, but to have the knowledge and skills to know when it is appropriate to involve other agencies and to support the client through the process. To be able to divulge highly complex and sensitive information when appropriate. To be able to communicate in a variety of ways which include verbal, written, IT, and report writing. To be able to identify personal levels of stress and access services provided by LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST, as required. To be the link Health Visitor, Early Years setting and General Practices, and childrens' centres. A link Health Visitor should be part of the childrens' Centre advisory board To be proactive in identifying and assessing the health needs of the local community taking into account the wider, social, environment and cultural issues affecting health inequalities. To take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of individual plans of care for clients of the service. To actively participate in Plymouth Healthy Child program 0-5, using analytical judgments to inform decisions to target families requiring greater intervention. To assess priorities within a progressive universal service provision to meet health inequalities targets. To develop skills in chairing meetings and taking minutes. To be responsible for the appropriate delegation of office administration and equipment ordering. To be professionally responsible without direct supervision for planning, allocating, monitoring the work of supervised staff. Moderate physical activity in frequent short bouts is required, e.g. getting in and out of car. Carrying scales; toys or audio-visuals for health promotion. There is a requirement to be able to climb stairs to visit in the community. Various periods of time accessing a computer. Job description Job responsibilities Professional Duties & Responsibilities: To practice the principles of Community Public Health Nursing as reflected in the wider definition described in the NMC competencies. Search for Health needs including surveillance and assessment. Stimulation of awareness of Health needs including strategic leadership, promoting and protecting health. Influence on policies affecting health including developing quality and risk management, policy and strategic development. Facilitation of health enhancing activities including developing services and programs working with and for communities, working alongside children's centres to deliver Great Expectations. A requirement to work occasional Saturdays and evenings to deliver such activities. There are frequent requirements for concentration and the work pattern is unpredictable. Occasionally within the course of employment attendance to court may be required to give evidence. There is constant change management/process affecting community service delivery. There is exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional situations, some potentially dangerous situations in the community, e.g. Drug & Alcohol Misuse, Violence and clients displaying mental health symptoms. Specialist Community Public Health Nurses deal with highly emotionally charged clients to safeguard children. The frequency of exposure is variable. SCPHN are expected to be flexible and adaptable working in different bases to cover colleagues and service provision during sickness and study leave and utilising the resources available to them. They are easily accessible to the public, receive and cope with frequent interruptions throughout the day. During visits they may be required to work in unpleasant home environments, e.g. dirty, excrement, aggression. Likelihood of movement of base due to changing practice. To have specialist knowledge across the range of work procedures and practice underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience. To encourage the uptake of immunisations. To act as an advocate for clients, liaising with agencies within and outside the health service. To participate in and initiate multi-agency, activities and meetings as required. To work in partnership with children, young people and families to identify health needs that promote and support a healthy lifestyle. To take appropriate action in response to any deviation from the normal which may include referral to team members or other agencies. To identify children in need and respond in line with national and local requirements. To take responsibility for prescribing appropriate treatments in line with the Nurse Prescribing Formulary, Community Pharmacy Guidelines and LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Protocols. If trained to do so. To be the Lead Practitioner for families here there are identified Child Welfare concerns. To be responsible for managing, organising and promoting the needs of the caseload and neighbourhood public health.. To take an innovative approach to practice in response to a changing service. To actively participate in Clinical and Professional Governance and Team Meetings by regular attendance, contributing to the content and agenda and provide evidence of participation. To be actively involved in the delivery of the NHS Public Health agenda as identified in the citywide Public Health Development Plan. To actively seek and promote client participation in planning delivery and evaluation of services. To be responsible for seeking to influence policy and strategic planning affecting service delivery. To take a leadership role as service delivery requires, for example Specialist Interest Group, working parties. To ensure that equipment used during delivery of a Health Visiting Service is maintained appropriately. To participate in supervision and line management as per policy. To participate in regular Clinical, Line Management and Caseload Supervision, as per Policies. To participate in the recruitment and selection process of prospective employees, for example SCPHN, Student SCPHN, Skill mix team members. To be a Line Manager to Band 2, 3, 4 and 5 as identified by the Team Manager To provide supervised staff with Individual Performance Review (IPR) as per LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Policy. To be responsible for management of annual leave, study leave and sick leave of supervised staff. To manage disciplinary issues and complaints following LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST Protocols and procedures. To supervise and facilitate student placements as required. To contribute to LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST requirements for data collection and sharing of information. To access annual Individual Performance Review, identify training needs and develop a continuing professional development plan. To facilitate and provide practice based teaching and training to colleagues and identify opportunities for knowledge sharing within other organisations. To have a professional responsibility to ensure that supervised staff access the training as identified in the Individual Performance Review. To provide mentorship/ preceptorship to newly qualified or appointed staff. To utilize the framework of Clinical Governance to learn from critical incidents and apply to practice. To ensure that skills in audit and research are maintained. To assist in LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST wide research and audit, as required. To maintain a personal professional portfolio of continuing professional development as required by the NMC. Responsible for participating in audit and data entry thus demonstrating contribution to LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST targets. To work within the clinical effectiveness framework (Essence of Care) using available evidence, research and audit to plan, implement and evaluate care. To attend in service training required by the needs of the service and organisation. Specialist Community Public Health Nurses are required:- To be accountable for their actions and those of others. To use their initiative to act independently. To interpret policy, write guidelines and standards as required applying to health visiting practice. To work as an autonomous practitioner within a Locality Health visiting Team accountable for the management of a defined caseload, for example Primary Care Team, Corporate, Geographical. To communicate clearly and work effectively with team members providing a seamless service. To communicate with clients at a time and level appropriate to their needs in a manner that promotes positive health. To communicate clearly, relevant information to a variety of health professionals at the appropriate times, with a client's consent. To communicate in an effective manner with educational settings, local people and groups to promote healthy lifestyles within the community. To listen to families in highly stressed situations such as a Child Protection, Domestic Violence, Drug Misuse and Homelessness in a supportive containing way to promote healthy future lifestyles. To have an ability to give complex information in stressful situations where there are significant barriers to acceptance and understanding, for example informing clients of necessity to refer to Social Services. To maintain confidentiality with sensitive information when supporting clients, but to have the knowledge and skills to know when it is appropriate to involve other agencies and to support the client through the process. To be able to divulge highly complex and sensitive information when appropriate. To be able to communicate in a variety of ways which include verbal, written, IT, and report writing. To be able to identify personal levels of stress and access services provided by LIVEWELL SOUTHWEST, as required. To be the link Health Visitor, Early Years setting and General Practices, and childrens' centres. A link Health Visitor should be part of the childrens' Centre advisory board To be proactive in identifying and assessing the health needs of the local community taking into account the wider, social, environment and cultural issues affecting health inequalities. To take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of individual plans of care for clients of the service. To actively participate in Plymouth Healthy Child program 0-5, using analytical judgments to inform decisions to target families requiring greater intervention. To assess priorities within a progressive universal service provision to meet health inequalities targets. To develop skills in chairing meetings and taking minutes. To be responsible for the appropriate delegation of office administration and equipment ordering. To be professionally responsible without direct supervision for planning, allocating, monitoring the work of supervised staff. Moderate physical activity in frequent short bouts is required, e.g. getting in and out of car. Carrying scales; toys or audio-visuals for health promotion. There is a requirement to be able to climb stairs to visit in the community. Various periods of time accessing a computer. Person Specification Experience Essential Experience of working in Health Visiting team Working with complex families. Demonstrate experience of working with child protection concerns. Able to work effectively in a multi agency arena. Desirable Management experience. Qualifications Essential Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Certificate, Diploma or Degree. NMC Registration. Relevant post registration course. Desirable Registered Nurse Prescriber with current NMC registration. Person Specification Experience Essential Experience of working in Health Visiting team Working with complex families. Demonstrate experience of working with child protection concerns. Able to work effectively in a multi agency arena. Desirable Management experience. Qualifications Essential Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Certificate, Diploma or Degree. NMC Registration. Relevant post registration course. Desirable Registered Nurse Prescriber with current NMC registration. 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name Livewell Southwest Address 200 Mount Gould Road Mount Gould Plymouth Devon PL4 7PY Employer's website https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)