Health Visitor

Job summary

We have exciting fixed term opportunities for Specialist Community Public Health Nurse's to join our Health Visiting service working with children, families, and communities across South Gloucestershire.

Through your work with families, you will empower them to make decisions that positively impact on their health and wellbeing to improve child outcomes, strengthen our partnership working with other agencies and challenge the wider determinants of health and health inequalities including advocating for those families who find services difficult to access.

Our Health Visiting teams work with families in a variety of setting including the family's home, local children centre's and community venues, therefore you must be mobile and flexible to visit several locations across a wide geographical area, organised and able to prioritise and manage your time.

In return, we offer a 6-month preceptorship programme for all new staff, regular clinical supervision, on-going safeguarding support, and access to a wide variety of training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As a specialist community public health nurse, you will provide expert advice, support, and interventions to families with children in the first years of life and help to empower parents to make decisions that positively affect their family's future health and wellbeing.

The main duties of the role include:

The delivery of the full-service offer of mandated contacts underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme. To work collaboratively with other agencies to promote health and well-being and improve early identification of need and risks to improve child outcomes. To empower individuals, families, and communities to influence and access services and information and act as an advocate particularly for those families who find services difficult to access. Contribute to safeguarding of children in collaboration with partners using national and local policies to guide professional decision making and action.

The service in South Gloucestershire is led by Health Visitors and supported by a skill mix team.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much morePlease see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.

We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC registration SCPHN Qualification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for local families and communities An understanding of the roles and contributions of members of the health visiting team at primary health care team and community leve Demonstrate experience of working in partnership with parents using a solution focussed approach and appropriate assessment skills and tools that clearly demonstrate child and family strengths and support needs focussed on the 6 high impact areas. An understanding of the implications of cultural difference on appropriate, accessible and sensitive service delivery.

Desirable

Group facilitation skills - either with parents or students or colleagues

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