Health Visitors

Are you a skilled health visitor with excellent interpersonal skills and sound clinical assessment skills?
- Would you like the chance to reshape and reinvigorate services to meet the needs of all families living in Medway?
- Are you passionate about the care you give to children and young adults?

If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you

We are looking for a health visitor to join us in our new children's centre, Snapdragons.

We work closely with our children’s centres developing services and supporting families to empower them with the knowledge confidence and life skills they need to raise healthy happy children. We also offer all our new parents access to an award winning five week post natal education course.
- To plan, deliver and evaluate an efficient and cost effective Health Visiting service for an identified population
- To provide leadership within the Health Visiting Team and be proactive in delivering the national and local public health agendas in response to identified health and social need
- To work in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements.

So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

So what else?
- We offer plenty of opportunities to become involved in service design and are committed to ensuring all staff have the training needed to fulfil their roles
- We offer a comprehension preceptor programme for our newly qualified staff, as well as preceptors and mentors for new employees.
- We offer practice placements to pre-registrations and SCPHN students, which encourages our own staff to be up to date with current practice and research.
- We have whole service meetings where training is given, so staff are continuously updated with the latest research and policy to ensure high standards of service delivery.
- We have posts available for new and experienced health visitors and also welcome interest from health visitors who have previously left the profession and are looking to renew their registration and return to practice.
- You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

1.Communication and relationship skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ensure effective communication with all members of the Multidisciplinary team
- Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/ understanding, e.g. child protection, bereavement, domestic violence and where English is not the first language.

1. Knowledge, training and experience
- 1stLevel Registered General Nurse
- Qualified Community Public Health Practitioner (Part 11 NMC Register)
- Specialist knowledge of safeguarding of children and adults
- Specialist knowledge of child development and family and public health issues
- Nurse Prescribing qualification
- Specialist Mentor qualification.
- To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.

1. Analytical and judgement skills
- Proven ability to undertake community and client health need assessment

1. Planning and organisational skills
- Possess complex organisational skills including caseload management.

1. Physical skills
- Keyboard skills
- Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools.

1. Responsibility for client care
- To manage the caseload effectively within the resources available
- To actively participate in the clinical governance agenda
- To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes to ensure evidence based health education and promotion to clients
- Independent responsibility for managing and providing an advisory health visiting service
- To wor