Health Visitor with special interest in Safeguarding

2 days ago


Basildon, United Kingdom HCRG Care Group Full time

Job summary

Are youa Health Visitor with a special interest in safeguarding? Working within Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services offers a unique environment, with clear visibility of senior management who are easily approachable due to their hands-on approach. Working in South Essexoffers the additional benefit of working closely with colleagues from our CCG including paediatricians, speech and language therapists and dietitians, where you can share insight, gain support and work together to create effective support plans.

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

We are striving to deliver a high quality, proactive service for children and the 0-5 Healthy Child Program. The aim of the service is to reduce health inequalities, safeguard children and improve outcomes.

Main duties of the job

There is a Healthy Family Team located within every District of Essex 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 with special interest in safeguarding, you will be responsible for:

The delivery of the Healthy Child Program including assessment of health needs, development, implementation and evaluation of packages of care Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area. Delivering the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context. To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children on a child protection plan within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs. Provide families and children on a child protection plan with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies. To develop a specialty within own working practice and act as a resource and lead to other health visitors through project development and further training.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Band 6 Health Visitor with special interest in safeguarding , you will be part of our valued team at our Essex, Family Wellbeing Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including-

Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose- changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards- with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

The Ideal Candidate

You will have Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (SCPHN) Qualified Nurse with current NMC registration Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families Experience in leading complex health needs requiring safeguarding and multiagency processes You will have a passion to drive positive change to families and use the platform HCRG Care Group offer to suggest innovative improvements as and when you see fit. You will also have a valid UK driving licence, with access to a car for work purposes.

Please see attached job description for full Personal Specification.

Person Specification

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