SCPHN Health Visitor

Job summary

If you are passionate about promoting health and wellbeing in the under 5's, keeping the child at the heart of everything you do and have a real 'can do' solution focused attitude to your practice, then we would love you to join our Health Visiting Teams in Shropshire. This post is based in North East Shropshire covering Whitchurch, Wem and Market Drayton.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will join one of the supportive, dedicated Public Health teams delivering universal and targeted support to children under 5 and their families in Shropshire.

We use RiO electronic record which facilitates home working for staff, allowing for greater flexibility in working and work life balance. You will therefore need to be a good communicator and work well as part of a team as well as being able to work independently.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Dudley and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered SCPHN Health Visitor NMC Registered Evidence of broader and recent CPD

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a SCPHN Significant post-registration experience Demonstrable knowledge and experience of child protection/safeguarding. Experience of working with children and young people Experience in multi-agency and collaborative working Experience of supporting, supervising and delegating to skill mix staff.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

IT skills and computer literacy Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research Ability to analyse complex data and present findings Safeguarding Policies and Procedure Adaptable and flexible to changing needs of client group

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