Specialist HV / Midwife Pre and Post birth team

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Visitor/midwife to take on a leadership role and join the new Pre and Post Birth Multiagency Team. The team will work jointly with Children's Social Care to offer an enhanced health visiting service throughout the antenatal period until 1yr post birth. The team will be co-located within Lynton House in Ilford to ensure good multi agency working.
The post holder will be a Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor and Midwife. The post holder will lead the health element of the multiagency team based within Redbridge local authority to support mother's, father's and babies during the antenatal and postnatal period up to baby's first birthday.
The post holder will support the development of the pre and post birth multiagency team, working with the local authority. They will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
The post holder will work within the wider senior leadership team to deliver the vision of the Trust to provide a quality led service, which is best in class and helps Babies, Children, Young People (BCYP) and their families to live and achieve the lives they want., · To be responsible for ensuring the team is working to an agreed framework.
· To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
· To ensure that Healthy Child Programme mandated checks are maintained for designated caseload.
· To deputise when required in the operational leads absence and delegate appropriately to the team.
· To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
· To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
· To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
· To supervise pre-registration students.
· To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
· To ensure that a strengths based approach is applied when working with families.
· To be responsible and effectively manage the budget related to the team.
· To influence service development resulting from audits and feedback.
· To deputise for the 8b Head of Service where required.
· To be an autonomous practitioner, with the ability to make decisions to benefit the service.
·, NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system, · To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
· The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - SCPHN Health Visitor and Midwife
· To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
· To offer expert skills and knowledge to ensure plans of care are developed that meet the complex health, emotional, social and psychological needs of the baby and parents.
· To offer expert health knowledge within the multiagency team.
· To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
· To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
+ A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
+ A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
+ Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
+ Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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