Health Visitor

The Health Visiting Service in Stockport is seeking to employ a Health Visitor who is enthusiastic and committed to improving the outcomes for children and families in Stockport.

The Health Visitors are a key part of our integrated Start Well Team, holding named health visitor 0-5 geographical caseloads to support children to get the best start in life. They work closely with early years providers, GPs, Midwives and Stockport Family colleagues.

The service has well established skill mix teams consisting of Health Visitors, Staff Nurses, Early Years Workers and Health Visitor Assistants who together deliver the Healthy Child Programme and early years pathways. They are part of Stockport Family which is an innovative, integrated children's service, designed to ensure strong working relationships between health, Local authority and Education providers, and working alongside colleagues in the Local Authority, Primary Care, voluntary and statutory agencies within newly established Family Hubs.

Main duties of the job

As a health visitor in a Start Well team you will lead the healthy child programme 0-5 and manage a named health visitor mixed caseload of universal, enhanced and specialised pathway families.

You will provide holistic assessment using the my world triangle, and utilise planning skills to identify and address health needs in a defined local population.

You will provide early help support to families when required utilising the Early Help Assessment and within a Team Around the Early Years model.

You will be accountable for your work and delegate activities as required to other members of the integrated Start Well Team.

You will maintain a focus on Public Health priorities, using a community strengths based approach to reduce inequalities utilising family hub networks across the neighbourhood you are working within.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

o Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

o NHS pension scheme membership

o Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

o NHS Staff discounts

o Cycle to work scheme

oSalary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt

o Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice