Band 6 Health Visitor

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Full time

Job summary

Do you have passion and commitment to public health and the early intervention agenda and want to work in one of the most diverse and thriving cities in England?

BCHC is committed to providing a good work-life balance, therefore offering flexible/agile working to all our staff. We are looking for passionate and committed Health Visitors who are highly skilled, enthusiastic, clinical practitioners and have a good understanding of the needs of children, young people and their families and want to be part of our journey to work as part of an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.

We have openings in Hall Green and Selly Oak districts.

If you want to give every child an equal chance to have the best start in life so they can achieve their full potential, this post would be well suited to you.

There are development opportunities that support career progression within health visiting. We have a number of Band 7 posts that can be considered alongside either clinical or management development.

BCHC also support practitioners who have been out of practice for a while, and offer a Return to Practice framework, all of the above can be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for assessing need and providing health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population. The post holder will work within a corporate caseload as well as with the local population on children and family centred public health related issues.

The post holder will be a first level registered nurse with a Health Visiting Degree/Diploma/ Certificate. The post holder will work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

You will be responsible for:

Day-to-day management and delegation of work to nursery nurses, link workers and any other support staff within the team (including supervision and monitoring the work of these staff)

Overseeing and planning in-service development for these staff

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion starts with our people shapes the way we deliver our services and the way we build our teams. We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to help us deliver great care to all of our communities.

BCHC offer an attractive Recruitment & Retention Premia f or health visiting based on an additional payment for colleagues in Band 6 and Band 7 posts. It will be accompanied by a commitment to fund any reasonable request for continuing professional development during the year.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To consistently demonstrate in all relationships with families, colleagues and partner professionals, the BCHC Trust Values and the Cs of nursing of commitment, competence, courage, communication, compassion and care in the role of Health Visitor. To develop a workload profile identifying those groups within the population with specific health needs To work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice, case load, families using local childrens centres, early education clusters, and other health partners To deliver the Health Child Programme through compassionate caring assessment, analysis of need, developing, implementing, and evaluating programmes of care using assessment tools in line with commissioner service specification for the health visiting service to address identified health needs. To use the common assessment framework to assess and plan with families where multiagency partnership working is required To formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to their need where necessary open active health and wellbeing files. To monitor all open files in accordance with the records keeping policy, closing when package of care is complete To carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities. Meeting and reporting on agreed key performance indicators where appropriate To give evidence-based advice on health issues to members of the local population in a way which promotes behavioural change and builds on strengths To work to current NICE guidelines on antenatal and postnatal mental health to identify, support and referral of women at risk of developing postnatal depression, and those who are mild to moderately depressed To maintain quality standards of care using audit and other monitoring systems to evaluate the service To identify vulnerable children in need of protection and refer to Social Care and Health following the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board policies in all cases of suspected or actual emotional, physical, sexual abuse and neglect. To follow up domestic violence notifications in line with Trust policy To attend team around the family meetings, case conferences, undertake and fulfil the responsibilities that are appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor as agreed in the multi-agency child protection plan Work in partnership with families to plan and arrange appointments for clinics and home visit To develop and maintain effective working relationships with the families, primary healthcare team and other professionals working in both the statutory and voluntary organisations To ensure all equipment used by professionals in clinic settings are maintained and fit for purpose To order equipment for client use as identified following a healthcare assessment. To advise on safe fitting and appropriate use To promote and support immunisation programmes offered nationally to service users To enter all data required on the data collection system accurately and on time according to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust policy To attend and actively participate in staff meetings including multi-agency steering groups etc and take responsibility for completion of appropriate tasks arising from any such meeting commenting on, and having input into policy development and standard setting within HV remit To ensure all written records are kept to the required NMC standard, to be able to write letters of referral to other services and to produce complex reports for court hearings relating to child protection To deal with and support families through difficult family situations such as illness, domestic violence, bereavement and child protection To have ongoing responsibility for the management of a caseload, including electronic recording, data inputting and reports To provide professional advice on issues relating to Health Visiting and promote an understanding of health needs among other agencies To supervise, mentor and assess pre-registration student nurses on placement with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust where appropriate as part of their education programme. To provide mentoring for other healthcare students, including health visitor students To access safeguarding, caseload and clinical supervision in order to ensure a resilient workforce which prioritises excellent safe, compassionate care To participate in Nurse prescribing undertaking a full assessment of minor conditions appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor, and where indicated prescribe from the formulary appropriate to level of training, and access continuing professional development in prescribing To convey complex information to other professionals and to clients and to work with other professionals and clients in difficult circumstances such as child protection, terminal illness or bereavement To plan, organise and run clinics/groups.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities

1. Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.

2. Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place and carry out personal development reviews for direct reports. Ensure all staff in your team/s have annual PDRs resulting in specific objectives and effective personal development plans.

3. Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDRs.

4. Develop a culture that ensure that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staffs perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Registered First Level Nurse Health Visitor Certificate/Diploma/Degree Evidence of recent professional development Non medical nurse prescriber

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of evidence based approaches in the provision of the Healthy Child Programme Evidence of assessment and care planning skills Ability to facilitate the learning of others in a one to one or group setting Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence base for the Healthy Child programme, and the 6 High impact areas for 0-5s Ability to demonstrate written skills that are relevant, accurate, concise and legible Ability to work in a supervisory capacity Ability to demonstrate a commitment to Non Medical Prescribing Ability to use software packages as appropriate

Other job requirements

Essential

Independently mobile with ability to travel to fulfil job requirements

Desirable

Ability to occasionally work flexible hours, which may include weekends and evenings

Experience

Essential

Evidence of postregistration nursing experience Evidence of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and safeguarding children Evidence of time and resource management Experience of applying learning into practice Experience of caseload management

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