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Band 6 Health Visitor

HCRG Care Group, Guildford

Band 6 Health Visitor

£39959-£48117

HCRG Care Group, Guildford

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 28 Oct | Get your application in now before you're too late!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: 86f5eab2d6d8429c879c7bae901a578b

Location ref: Guildford

Full Job Description

  • Wagestream Access - Track and access earned wages anytime, avoiding high-interest loans or overdrafts.
  • Professional Growth - Gain experience across various services, access free training, and join our Strive for Better professional network.
  • 24/7 Well-being Support - Free counselling, legal advice, financial guidance, and career coaching.
  • Innovative Culture - Share ideas, apply for national funding, and contribute to service improvements.
  • Recognition & Engagement - Nominate colleagues for awards and participate in executive Q&A sessions.
  • Commitment to Excellence - Be part of a team with "Good" or "Outstanding" CQC-rated services.
    • Are you searching for a role that offers variety, growth, and support? As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering the Healthy Child Programme. You'll work closely with families to create tailored support plans and collaborate with partners like paediatricians, speech and language therapists, and dietitians to achieve the best outcomes for children. Our Healthy Family Teams are built on collaboration-with the community, for the community. You'll find clear visibility of senior leadership, a hands-on approach from management (yes, even our Managing Director!), and a genuine platform for your voice and ideas to shine. Working in Surrey means being part of a close-knit team with access to fantastic resources and strong professional networks. Together, we're striving to improve health outcomes for every child and family we serve.Main Responsibilities
  • Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area. Delivering the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
  • To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children on a child protection plan within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
  • Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
  • Provide families and children on a child protection plan with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
  • To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
  • To contribute to multi-agency assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
  • To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
  • Understanding the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding. Using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.

    Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification (SCPHN)
  • Current NMC registration on third part of the register
  • Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams
  • Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
  • Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
  • Working knowledge of the tools and progammes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
  • Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems
    • Desirable
  • Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
  • Experience in line management and developing teams
  • Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
  • Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
    • Other requirements: Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.

    We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

  • Flexible Shift Booking - Self-book bank shifts and request time off up to six weeks in advance for a better work-life balance.

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https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/band-6-health-visitor-127653084
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