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Specialist Health Visitor for Minor Illness and Accident Prevention
Band 7
Main area: Specialist Health Visitor for Minor Illness and Accident Prevention
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 824-SOUTH-6795423-A
Site: Wandsworth and Richmond 0-19 Children services
Town: London
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
This post will project manage and clinically lead a quality improvement project relating to health literacy, managing minor illnesses and accident prevention and improving the uptake of health and developmental reviews.
Main duties of the job
1. Scope the current provision across the nominated boroughs relating to minor illness and accident prevention and provide an analysis of any gaps in service or practice.
2. Act as a role model demonstrating highly specialist knowledge in health visiting practice as the HIA lead, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practice experience.
3. Provide facilitative and supportive leadership to health visiting colleagues. Act as a lead in your specific area of interest.
4. Actively participate in the teaching and support of staff and clients about minor illnesses and accident prevention.
5. Assist mentors to plan creative methods of teaching and learning that optimise the student experience in the specific areas of minor illness and accident prevention.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme (only available for Band 5 and up).
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support and development in your career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with current UK NMC registration.
* Registered Health Visitor.
* Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training.
Experience
* Health visiting experience in practice.
* Experience of coordinating and leading multi-skilled teams.
* Ability to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets.
* Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency working. Ability to facilitate joint working practices.
* Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others.
* Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning and implementing evidence-based programmes of care.
* Experience of developing the public health agenda.
* Experience in providing practice-based learning support to others.
* Experience of supporting learners in practice settings.
* Experience of delivering training programmes to groups.
* Experience and evidence of participation in audit.
* Experience and evidence of participation in research.
* Evidence of leadership in service change or redesign.
* Evidence of providing clinical supervision to groups or on 1:1.
Skills
* Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice.
* Knowledge of current health legislation.
* Current knowledge of child protection guidelines and relevant legal aspects.
* Knowledge of the public health agenda and the health care needs of individuals in the community.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email, so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
* Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
* Race Equality Network
* Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
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.
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