Health Visitor

Job Introduction

Please note we also have positions in the following location RWB, Calne and Devizes areas

On behalf of the NHS, Wiltshire County Council and HCRG Care Group we are commissioned to provide a range of children, young people and family services throughout Wiltshire that are free at the point of delivery.

Within Wiltshire we also deliver the Children’s Community Specialist Health Services including Children’s Community Nursing, Children’s Therapies and Community Paediatrics.

The service, focusses on ensuring that everyone in Wiltshire has the best possible start in life through meeting the identified needs of children, young people and their families.

Our services are offered across Wiltshire from the Antenatal period up until a young person turns 19 or 25 for those with Special Educational Needs. We are located within the community delivering outcome based support to families within their homes, schools or at one of our delivery sites.

We are striving to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in the community, for the community, with the community.

As a Health Visitor within the Wiltshire Childrens Community Service you’ll join a team who are focused on clinical excellence and who recently received a “Good” CQC rating.

Main Responsibilities

As a Health Visitor you’ll join a Team who are focused on clinical excellence. Your days will be rewarding and varied and include offering support to children and families and empowering them to reach their full potential.

There is a Health Visiting Team located within every locality area of Wiltshire and is made up of a Multi-disciplinary team, including Health Visitors, School Nurses and additional colleagues who work together to provide family support.

As a Health Visitor you will be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme including assessment of health needs, development, implementation and evaluation of packages of care.

You will provide leadership and act as positive role model by supporting colleagues and demonstrating excellent standards of care.

You will undertake mentorship responsibilities to both pre-registration and SCPHN students whilst on placement within the service and provide preceptorship to support new staff members. You will be supported to do this by our Practice Education team.

Regular safeguarding supervision will be provided along with opportunities for continued professional development.

You will have or be working towards a SCPHN Health Visitor qualification along with a passion and drive to help ensure that children have the best possible start in life.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

You will have a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work use.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, 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.

From around 500 locations 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.

As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.

HCRG Care Group, its subsidiary companies and the LLPs are part of the HCRG Care Group and provide publicly funded health and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.

From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide:

- proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass (either electronically or via the PDF)
- A signed copy of the temporary medical exemption form. Further details about the legislation can be found on the government website.

Package Description

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

- **AfC 21/22 salary **and terms and conditions -including an **NHS pension**:

- **Flexible working** to provide you with that tr