Main area: Health Visiting
Grade: Band 6
Contract: 36 weeks (Fixed Term to cover maternity leave)
Hours: Part-time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 110-NMR079-0225
Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Treharris Primary Care Centre
Town: Merthyr Tydfil
Salary: £37,898 - £45,637 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Health Visitor
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
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Job overview
This post is fixed term for 36 weeks to cover maternity leave.
As part of the Healthy Child Wales Programme, the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visiting (SCPHN - HV) will be the named Health Visitor for all Children and their families within their caseload from antenatal to 5 years, excluding the unborn child. This requires the Health Visitor (HV) to commence the child’s planning process.
To work without direct supervision to undertake statutory duties on behalf of the Health Board with respect to individual children within your caseload to assess, monitor, improve and support the wellbeing of children and their families.
Working in partnership with the child’s family and all involved agencies to produce a child’s plan which will require to be monitored, reviewed and evaluated.
In discharging these responsibilities the post holder is responsible and accountable for maintaining clinical, staff and information governance.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
1. Be responsible for providing a Health Visiting service for a defined caseload of families with children aged 0-5 including in the antenatal period. Ensure transfer to the appropriate service at appropriate time.
2. Provide a child centred, inclusive, holistic and accessible Public Health programme to children, their families and communities.
3. As part of Healthy Child Wales Programme (HCWP), quality assurance framework for current practice, skills such as motivational interviewing are required.
4. Lead and/or contribute to developing strategies to address individual identified needs as well as those identified within the community.
5. Undertake an assessment using the recognised and accepted acuity tools, to support safe staffing levels and support colleagues during fluctuations in workforce and workload activity.
6. Participate and chair Health Visiting Forums, team meetings and working groups as required, and participate in projects regarding future service development, developing and implementing identified changes to the routine and delivery of routine care.
7. Lead and deliver the Universal Healthy Child Wales Programme (Welsh Government 2015) which is underpinned by the Quality Assurance Framework being adaptable and flexible when models of care change.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
* SCPHN Health Visitor - NMC Registrant.
* Nurse Prescriber.
* Level 3 safeguarding training.
Experience
* Teaching in a clinical setting.
* Safeguarding.
* Multi-agency working.
Aptitude and Abilities
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to work independently under pressure and meet deadlines.
* Proven skills in motivating and influencing others. Leadership skills.
* Standard keyboard skills with familiarity of Microsoft Office Software.
* Flexible approach to workload demands/patterns.
* Confident and ability to motivate others, team player and change agent.
* Ability to speak Welsh.
Values
* Promote and uphold the values and behaviours of CTMUHB.
Other
* Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner. Able to work hours flexibly to meet service needs.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route.
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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