Health Visitor

Recruiting health visitors in Solihull! (North and South Solihull sites)

Do you want to work for a service that is always striving to improve and looks to its staff to contribute to service improvement and innovation? Do you want to be part of a hardworking, professional and friendly team, supported by visible leadership and who values you as a colleague?

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC and is also one of only a handful of Trusts to hold UNICEF Gold accreditation. We prioritise staff development, including leadership opportunities, and support staff through our flexible working policy.

We are looking for enthusiastic and committed health visitors interested in full and part time hours (22.5 - 37.5 hours) in South of the borough of Solihull, although the post may require you to work across the borough at times. We are accepting applications from newly qualified health visitors or current health visiting students who will be qualifying in early 2025.

Main duties of the job

To effectively lead and deliver on the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-5 (DH 2010) to improve outcomes for the children and families.

Named responsibility and professional accountability for the management of a defined team caseload including the delegation of tasks to members of the team.

To contribute to the Public Health Agenda, meet Public Health targets and reduce health inequalities.

To actively lead teams both within Health Visiting and partner agencies.

To work as part of a team to ensure that the services key performance indicators targets are achieved.

To act as a role model and be professional at all times adhering to the current NMC Code of Conduct.

To participate in nurse prescribing following NMC and local policy.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.