Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor)

Working as part of the Health Visiting Team, you will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme inaccordance with national and local strategy/guidance. This will include the provision of antenatal and postnatalperiod programmes conducting universal mandated checks and packages of care in line with evidence basedpractice.You will work in partnership with partner agencies in the identification and protection of vulnerable childrenand contribute to the development of care plans, working in accordance with local and professional guidelines.Health Visitors will contribute to the completion of agreed outcomes for delegated Children Protection cases asper agreed multi-agency care plane ensuring regular communication with caseload holder.The Health Visiting service operates an open access service to children and families within home, communityand primary care settings to promote a healthy lifestyle within the local population giving particular attentionto the identified health needs of
the locality, and target groups such as children 0-5 years, and vulnerablefamilies, as such you will work with both children and adults.To address inequalities in health, through participation, collaboration, empowerment and primary care, theHealth Visiting service will deliver the agreed range of planned universal services, assess health needs,identify vulnerability and deliver targeted interventions to meet the needs of children and their families/carers., Health Visitors work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play animportant contribution in how people experience our services.o Health visitors are expected to be kind, responsive and professional, contributing to the quality of theservices we provide by:o Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective riskassessmentso Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-basedpolicies and procedureso Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and workingin partnership with them.We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and inpartnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 6 HCPs work as part of a team andcontribute to its success by being a role model, supervising more junior members of the team (Qualified andunqualified)
and students to ensure they are working to the professional standards required and provideleadership within the team.

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