# Health Visitor, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Harrow
**Job type**: full-time, part-time
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The 0-19 service for the London Borough of Harrow offers Health Visiting and School Nursing to children and families. We are looking to recruit competent and motivated individuals with a dynamic approach to meeting the needs of Harrow's large and diverse population. This is an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic Band 6 Health Visitors to work in building our integrated 0-19 Service to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to families in Harrow.

The Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) will work as part of the 0-19 team delivering a high-quality, proactive service for children, young people, and their families. The aim of the service is to achieve equity of health outcomes for the local population through the provision of evidence-based and needs-led services.

**Main duties of the job**

- Contribute to the identification and assessment of child and family health needs and the delivery of a universal core service, targeted interventions, and public health interventions to children and their families within a defined locality.

- Work closely with local partners, particularly GPs, Children's Centres, and the local community and voluntary sector.

- Supervise community nursery nurses, community staff nurses, health care assistants, and students to ensure they are working to the standards which people using our services deserve.

- Contribute to the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) programme, a high-quality, evidence-based, nurse-led structured intervention for families needing extra support.

**Job responsibilities**

- Use clinical judgment and risk assessment to keep people using our services as safe as possible.

- Safeguard people by recognizing and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse.

- Escalate safety concerns and act as effective advocates for those who use our services.

- Maintain accurate, legible, comprehensive records.

- Supervise the work of others and reflect on everyday practice to identify areas for improvement.

**Person Specification**

- Current and UK NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife.

- UK Registered Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor).

- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.

- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines.

- Ability to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team and present cases.

- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records.

- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner.

**Benefits**

- Access to a wide range of NHS benefits, including discounts, pensions, and various learning and development opportunities.

## Skills

### Required
- Clinical judgement
- Risk assessment
- Safeguarding
- Record keeping
- Supervision
- Communication skills
- Microsoft Word
- Excel

### Nice to have
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training
- Mentorship Preparation Module/ENB 998
- Nurse Prescribing
- Degree or Master in Related Subject

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