Health Visitor

Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?

Cambridgeshire Community Services 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team.

**We are able to offer**:
- A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count

The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team

A Robust 1 year preceptorship for all newly qualified staff or those who are wishing to return to practice

A comprehensive induction package

A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision

Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills

Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions

An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies such as early years settings, Local Authority and child and Family Centres; ensuring the best outcomes for children and families

A competitively priced lease car scheme

The opportunity to embrace agile working, supported by IT connectivity

To work as part of a team leading the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme. The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities. Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care. They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory & voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes.

Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within Cambridgeshire.

Health Visitors must have the ability to travel and may be required to work across both Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

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**Responsibilities**:
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify the health needs of children and young people, their families and the community and contribute to developing a strategy to address individual identified needs as well as those needs within the community. This may include being the Lead Professional in the Early Help Hub Assessment Process

To use knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care

To identify health needs within a geographical corporate caseload/community

To clinically triage the single point of access as required in accordance with agreed procedures

Promote local and national public health priorities

Respond to health needs assessments by referring to other professionals (e.g. GP’s, consultants, speech and language therapists), and statutory and voluntary agencies (e.g. social care, housing, HomeStart)

To work with the Locality Lead to support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or at risk. To adhere to current safeguarding procedures and participate in child protection case conferences and case review meetings as required

Participate in all statutory processes in respect of safeguarding including provision of witness statements, court reports and court attendance

Undertake programmes of care in partnership with parents, foster parents and other agencies, designed to safeguard children, and minimise risk

Identify children with special educational needs and disability and facilitate support and referrals to maximise developmental potential. Act as a key worker when indicated, ensuring effective, efficient, and appropriate care plans

To provide cover for colleagues as requested by your manager

To plan evidence-based health promotion programs, order resources, compile teaching plans with aims, objectives, and outcomes, and evaluate the sessions

Actively promote community participation and work within a community development / capacity building framework within a multi-agency context

To act as a health link for other agencies, e.g., Children Centers, GPs, voluntary services, public and private agencies, and work closely with partner agencies to promote the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families

Demonstrate reflective and evidence-based practice and use