Bright Start Islington Health Visitor

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

Are you a health visitor who would like to work in a small team and provide continuity of care to the families you care for?

"The reason I like working in Islington is the diversity of client population, the facilities available for families e.g, groups and activities and the ability to walk to and from my visits (this gives me time to reflect)"

This is a quote from one of our newly qualified Health Visitors.

Health visitors in Islington deliver the Healthy Child Programme from parent's homes, Children's Centres and Health Centres. We work closely with our key partners to provide an integrated service to all families in Islington.

We are looking for newly qualified and experienced health visitors to join our Bright Start Islington teams.

To work within an integrated service to provide The Healthy Child Programme 0-5 years as part of the Islington Bright Start Early Childhood Offer. You will be part of a skill mix team, working a geographical area designed to support the Bright Start agenda for children and families.

You will be expected to work across organisational and professional boundaries delivering innovative and engaging services which impact on outcomes for families and children. This work will be undertaken in a variety of settings including health centres, children centres and community centres and will be delivered as home visits and group sessions.

You will be supported through a comprehensive training programme and be given opportunities to work within a variety of integrated workshops as part of your professional development.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details
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