Health Visitor

Every day our Health Visitors provide high quality healthcare in people's homes or at convenient local clinics and children centres, helping children and families to stay well, manage their own health with the right support and avoid unnecessary visits or long stays in hospital.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) have exciting opportunities available for passionate and committed Health Visitors across the borough of Lewisham. We are looking for candidates with excellent clinical and communication skills to join our 0-5 yrs skill mix teams contributing to delivery of 'The Healthy Child Programme'. You will help make a tangible difference to peoples' lives and enjoy the very best of London life on your doorstep.

In our latest CQC inspection LGT Children's Community Directorate were awarded an "outstanding" rating.

We have specialist health visitors working in domestic abuse, parental mental health, infant feeding and clinical informatics/ digitalisation and a strong preceptor programme for newly qualified students.

Main duties of the job

LGT welcome applications from newly qualified and experienced Health Visitors. Some of the benefits of working with LGT include: a robust preceptorship programme for NQHV's the first 12 months, outstanding safeguarding support from our safeguarding team, corporate membership with the iHV and a comprehensive suite of training opportunities for health visiting staff to support revalidation and professional development.

We also offer additional benefits through our employee assistance scheme, as well as the inner high cost area supplement for working in London. Our staff's work life balance is very important to us and we therefore offer flexible working and condensed hours. All clinical staff are provided with mobile devices which also supports flexible working opportunities., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations