Health Visitor

Health Visitors - 1 post 37.5 & 1 post 24.5

Why not bring your Health Visiting skills to Cumbria. The county that has the Lake District National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site at it's heart. There are excellent mainline rail links, opening up access to Newcastle, Leeds, Glasgow and London.

With house prices being amongst the most competitive in the UK, whether you are looking for city life, coastal views or a rural idyll, there is somewhere for you and your loved ones.

High-quality schools, colleges and universities, make Cumbria the perfect choice for family life and the University of Cumbria has outstanding employability prospects with nine out of ten students in employment or further study six months after graduating.

The Strengthening Families service works alongside families to identify health needs, offer support, implement a plan of care, signpost to other services and deliver the pre-school Healthy Child Programme.

The service is provided to families with children aged 0-19yrs who fit into the following categories - Child protection plan, Child in Need, Children in Care and young people open to the Youth Offending Service.

Due to the complex and challenging nature of the Strengthening Families work, we pride ourselves in offering a high level of formal and informal support and supervision.

The Strengthening Families team work with some of the most vulnerable families in the community. Their main priorities are to deliver the healthy child programme and to complete health assessments to identify any unmet health needs and then to support the family to address them.

Skills and qualities
- the ability to offer the Healthy Child Programme
- safeguarding skills and knowledge
- ability to identify and manage health needs
- good communication skills
- the ability to work independently and liaise with health professionals, families and other agencies including the Local Authority Children's Services
- hardworking, reliable with good time management skills
- ability to complete high quality, analytical documentation within NMC guidelines

Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

Important Information
- Junk Mail is checked regularly

**Disclosure and Barring Service**:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

**The changes mean that**:

- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required