Bank B6 Health Visitor North West

CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST

Bank B6 Health Visitor North West

£47674

CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST, Walham Green, Hammersmith and Fulham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 3 weeks ago, 4 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 14c5945c05f44d07a78102e69ae584a3

Full Job Description

  • To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative health visiting service, and where appropriate,

  • delegate to other members of the Health Visiting team to ensure delivery of a quality service
  • To deliver the healthy child programme and work in partnership with families to develop and

  • agree tailored health plans to address their parenting and health needs.
  • To actively participate in service development activities.

  • To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless

  • delivery of services for clients and communities, + providing health advice and health education programmes
    + undertaking developmental assessments of babies and children
    + helping people come to terms with issues such as postnatal depression
    + establishing and addressing key health needs
    + referral to and liaison with other relevant organisations
    + assessing parenting skills and children's home situations, and offering parents any further support that may be needed
    + working with other professionals such as social workers, GPs and school nurses
    Leading and coordinating the healthy child programme by carrying out the 5 mandated contact visits.
    Providing a seamless service to universal and vulnerable children and families by working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.
    Early identification, intervention, and appropriate onward referral. Good communication skills both written and verbal.
    Reduced ability to deliver on KPI's
    Patient safety will continue to be at risk, To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based health visiting service to clients in a variety of community settings.
  • To apply specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the health visiting service.

  • To consult, advise and educate individuals and families on good health care practices.

  • To develop health profiles of the defined population and local communities, identifying health needs of disadvantaged groups and targeting outreach services to meet their needs.

  • To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meets the public health needs of the population.

  • To provide parenting skills support and information both through coordinating /participating in parenting groups and one to one home visits to families, especially those children and families identified with complex health needs/vulnerabilities

  • To provide health assessments, advice and education to families and individuals of all ages in the population group, prioritising services appropriate to local public health and population need.

  • To develop and implement regular health promotion initiatives on specific health issues and.

  • Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
    Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
    Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
    At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
    We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
    Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
    Race Equality Network
    Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
    Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
    The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

    Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
    We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.