Bank B6 Health Visitor - Wandsworth | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST, Roehampton, Wandsworth
Bank B6 Health Visitor - Wandsworth | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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CENTRAL LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST, Roehampton, Wandsworth
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 14 Nov | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 03aeec5fe572404da5137c3a17ad94c0
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 CLCH NHS Trust is currently re-shaping the way Health Visitors work, looking at new and innovative practices to improve health across London. This includes agile working and provision of laptops to all staff. 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.
Bank B6 Health Visitor - Wandsworth | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust