SCPHN Health Visitor

Thurrock has an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Health Visitors. If you are an experienced Health Visitor, or soon to be qualified Health Visitor, we would love to hear from you. We are looking to recruit motivated practitioners with initiative and drive who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service. We work in close collaboration with Family Hubs as well as other agencies to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities for children, young people and their families in our borough.

For newly qualified practitioners, we have a Preceptorship Programme in place to aid your development. We also offer a wide range of in-house and other training opportunities for continuous professional development through our learning and development department.

Main duties of the job

• To provide key contacts as per the Healthy Child programme, identifying and assessing health needs.
• Working within the wider multidisciplinary team to provide appropriate support for families.
• To identify and assess children 0-5 with complex health needs, offering an enhanced integrated service within the multi-agency team.
• To identify possible safeguarding concerns and escalate for support as required, working with other agencies across the borough.
• You will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team.
• You need to have excellent communication skills and experience of working in partnership across organisational boundaries.
• You need to be willing to facilitate and support change in service delivery.

Job responsibilities

• To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, and ensure the 4, 5, 6 Service model is implemented in practice.
• Ensure services are provided within the HCP model- Your Community, Universal, Targeted and Specialist Services This will incorporate building community capacity, and embedding this into caseload, team and locality management.
• Responsible for the management of caseload allocation as per locality/team, and classify cases in line national stratify of Universal, Universal plus and Universal partnership plus.
• Work in accordance to the Locality commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence-based practice and the 6 High impact areas are embedded within practice.
• To improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people especially those from disadvantaged groups.
• To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs, taking into account cultural diversity.

Benefits

• We offer a wide range of in-house and other training opportunities for continuous professional development through our learning and development department.
• We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.
• The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities.