Specialist Health Visitor Strengthening Families

The Band 7 Strengthening Families posts are roles, developed to provide personalised care for families who need it most. This is an exciting opportunity for Health Visitors who wish to build their leadership and management skills whilst delivering evidence-based care to families on specialist and targeted care pathways. The post holder will provide direct specialist clinical service for children and families with complex and additional needs across Bexley and Greenwich and will work within skill mix teams of Community Nursery Nurses, Health Visitor Development Nurses and B6 Health Visitors. The main role for the Specialist Strengthening Families Health Visitor is to be the delegated named HV for children requiring targeted and specialist support as well as contributing to the public health agenda. This is achieved through conducting thorough, individualised health needs assessments, planning programmes of care tailored to families' needs, and effective liaison with colleagues within Bromley Healthcare and with partner agencies.,

• Lead the health visiting team to deliver the Healthy Child Programme by:
• Carrying out ongoing health needs assessments for all children and families within the community, using professional judgment to allocate each family to the correct level of health visiting care, Universal, Targeted and Specialist pathways
• The role will hold a caseload of targeted and specialist families and lead in a high-impact area.
• Overseeing the delivery of Universal service key touchpoints by skill mix team members
• Delivering evidence-based personalised packages of care to families who need it most
• Using Outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of care delivered, planning and implementing revised packages of care, where required, and closing or escalating packages of care as required for each child.
• Participating and where appropriate, leading on the Early Help process for children, ensuring timely assessment and that coordinated care is delivered to address the needs of the child and family
• To provide health visiting support and advice within the clinic setting, according to the service model and guidelines
• To liaise effectively with colleagues within Bromley Healthcare and partner organisations
• Provide specialist knowledge, supervision, advice, and leadership to team members
  
  Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. .
Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point. Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.