St Helens Health Visitor

Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust? Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and soon to be Knowsley.

We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities. We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people’s services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.

You can also visit our dedicated.children and young people’s websiteto find out more about our services.

We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.

Julia Bryant, Quality Lead at the Trust, shares her experience of working within the organisation’s children and young people’s services.Watch Julia’s video.

An opportunity has arisen for a part time/full time Health Visitor to workin the 0-19 Healthy Child service in St Helens working for Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The post requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be adaptable, reliable, compassionate and approachable. You will need to have strong interpersonal and leadership skills, be flexible solution focused and support service development.

You will work as part of an integrated 0-19+ Team and will be required to support the full delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and be responsible for managing a caseload of universal partnership and partnership plus families.

You will also be involved in a range of public health activities within a geographical area, to include individuals, groups and communities.

As a key stakeholder in the protection of children, you will be required to work collaboratively with other agencies to meet their needs. You will have a good knowledge of the components of Clinical Governance, Risk Management, Audits and relevant Professional Codes.

You will have a good knowledge of the components of Clinical Governance, Risk Management, audits and relevant Professional Codes.

About the Trust

Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:

- 0-19 / 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services
- Community Nursing
- Sexual Health Wirral
- Community Cardiology
- Walk-in centres
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Teletriage
- Community Dental
- Social Care
- End of Life Care

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning. You can read more about the Trust via the careers section on our website.

Please note that non-NHS applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the salary band

When providing references, these should be your two most recent employers (these may include your line manager or someone in a position of responsibility). Personal references are not acceptable.

Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for more information on this exciting role.