Health Visitor - Children's Health

Reporting to the Head of Service , your role as a Health Visitor is to support the reduction of health inequalities for children, young people and their families in Sutton through the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, aimed at autonomously assessing the health needs of our service users and implementing tailored care packages to support. Assessments are typically conducted through an antenatal contact, new birth visits, 6-8 weeks development contact, 1 year development reviews and 2 year development reviews therefore your experience in these environments will be key to delivering the success needed within the role and the service. You will work collaboratively and in partnership with children centre staff, GPs, Social Services, Family Support workers and School Nursing and a range of other partners to support families here in Sutton., The service delivers the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 0 - 19 year. We work closely with the iHV and offer the exceptional benefit of annual membership for our staff. Our service prides itself in active partnership working with the iHV; staff members are encouraged to submit articles related to innovation and evidence-based practice where opportunities arise.

To be successful in the role, we would expect all candidates to demonstrate the following competences:

• Be a Registered Nurse or Midwife and registered as a Health Visitor.


• Experienced in working in partnership across professional boundaries


• Good understanding of the practice of safeguarding children and able to work autonomously with high levels of self motivation and able to work in a team setting.
  
  Our Cheam and South Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington and Central Sutton Specialist Public Health ( 0-19) service (health visiting and school nursing) teams improve outcomes for our children, focusing in particular on improving school readiness, mental health and well-being and our SEND provision.