About the Role
Recruitment and Retention Package at Sutton, including a Golden Hello and Retention Bonus
As of 1st September, all new recruits to selected roles within Children’s Health Services shall receive a starting salary similar to the NHS. For example a newly recruited Health Visitor at Sutton would be placed at a mid range spinal point (SP 32) of Grade 8, closely matching the NHS pay scale for the same role. The current LBS figure would be £42, to offset the NHS entry figure of £40,.
Reporting to the Head of Service, your role as a Health Visitor is to support the reduction of health inequalities for children, young people and their families in Sutton through the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, aimed at autonomously assessing the health needs of our service users and implementing tailored care packages to support. Assessments are typically conducted through an antenatal contact, new birth visits, 6-8 weeks development contact, 1 year development reviews and 2 year development reviews therefore your experience in these environments will be key to delivering the success needed within the role and the service. You will work collaboratively and in partnership with children centre staff, GPs, Social Services, Family Support workers and School Nursing and a range of other partners to support families here in Sutton.
All newly qualified Health Visitors are offered a 6 months preceptorship period where you will have an allocated senior health visitor to support you. Post preceptorship, you will be further supported to develop your knowledge and skills in health visiting practice, and managing enhanced caseload.
About Us
Children's Health Service
Our Cheam and South Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington and Central Sutton Specialist Public Health ( 0-19) service (health visiting and school nursing) teams improve outcomes for our children, focusing in particular on improving school readiness, mental health and well-being and our SEND provision.
The service delivers the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 0 - 19 year. We work closely with the iHV and offer the exceptional benefit of annual membership for our staff. Our service prides itself in active partnership working with the iHV; staff members are encouraged to submit articles related to innovation and evidence-based practice where opportunities arise.
In addition to the above, we offer staff comprehensive training and encourage everyone to undertake personal development opportunities whether in leadership, specialist training around speech and language, children with extra needs, perinatal mental health, alongside personal preferences expressed by individuals to progress their interests and careers. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged. We pride ourselves in hearing staff voices in improving our service provision to the benefit of our resident population here in Sutton.
We offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff allowing you to work flexibly from our main bases, whilst on the move, and at home following the introduction of Google Chromebooks, Apps and technology, which have acted as a key enabler for collaborative, streamlined and flexible working. You will get a great feel for working in our friendly and collaborative environment whilst working at Sutton.
For more information on the role and the service, download the Candidate Pack attached.
For an informal discussion, feel free to contact Jean Crate, Service Manager ()
About You
To be successful in the role, we would expect all candidates to demonstrate the following competences:
1. Be a Registered Nurse or Midwife and registered as a Health Visitor.
2. Experienced in working in partnership across professional boundaries
3. Good understanding of the practice of safeguarding children and able to work autonomously with high levels of self motivation and able to work in a team setting.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:
4. Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
5. Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
6. Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
7. Comprehensive learning and development programme
8. Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
9. Interest free season ticket loans
10. Local Government Pension Scheme
11. Car parking scheme
12. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
13. Zip car scheme
14. Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
15. Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
16. Subsidised gym membership