Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (health visitors) work within Wiltshire Children’s Community Services to lead and deliver a high quality, proactive service for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.

Base

One of 3 locality hubs in Wiltshire

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Health Visitor with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £35,392 - £42,618 and Agenda for Change terms and conditions – including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area.  Delivering the universal reach of the Healthy Child Program, assessing health needs, and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
• To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.  This will include partnership working with other agencies.
• To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting.  Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
• To contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
• To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
• Understanding the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding. Using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.
• Exhibiting excellence in and role modelling the standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice for the supervision of learners and colleagues.
• Developing the health visiting service in the defined locality through proactive leadership and innovative practice to meet health needs.
• Working flexibly across organisational boundaries to contribute towards the identification of population health needs in line with Virgin Care’s policies and priorities
• To develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other health visitors through project development and further training.
• To use evidence-based practice to develop and maintain high quality and cost-effective standards for Specialist Public Health Nurse/health visiting practice.
• To provide management and leadership to community nursery nurses and other skill mix team members including allocation meetings, delegation of the mandated visits of the Healthy Child Programme, interventions caseload monitoring and support.
• To plan, develop and co-ordinate the public health agenda and interventions for the early year’s population in the locality area for the skill mix team to deliver.
• To have a working knowledge of the Virgin Care policies and procedures and to implement them as appropriate.  To participate in the development of new policies as required.
• To act as a champion and facilitate change within the health visiting strategy and participate in teams to develop practice and pathways to improve care processes
• To participate in staff appraisal and performance development planning process, identifying training needs of team members and to ensure appropriate training is provided and that training is utilised positively in practice.

Essential

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
• Current NMC registration on third part of the register
• Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams
• Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
• Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
• Working knowledge of the tools and program used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
• Car driver and use of car for work
• Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems                                                                                                                                                      

Desirable

• Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
• Experience in line management and developing teams
• Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
• Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
• Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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