Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time)
- Job ref
- 820-6161866-CF
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Selly Oak District
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Health Visitor
Band 6
Job overview
Do you have passion and commitment to public health and the early intervention agenda and want to work in one of the most diverse and thriving cities in England?
BCHC is committed to providing a good work-life balance, therefore offering flexible/agile working to all our staff. We are looking for passionate and committed Health Visitors who are highly skilled, enthusiastic, clinical practitioners and have a good understanding of the needs of children, young people and their families and want to be part of our journey to work as part of an integrated early years, health, and wellbeing service.
We have an opening in the Hall Green district.
If you want to give every child an equal chance to have the best start in life so they can achieve their full potential, this post would be well suited to you.
There are development opportunities that support career progression within health visiting. We have a number of Band 7 posts that can be considered alongside either clinical or management development.
BCHC also support practitioners who have been out of practice for a while, and offer a Return to Practice framework, all of the above can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for assessing need and providing health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population. The post holder will work within a corporate caseload as well as with the local population on children and family centred public health related issues.
The post holder will be a first level registered nurse with a Health Visiting Degree/Diploma/ Certificate. The post holder will work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
You will be responsible for:
Day-to-day management and delegation of work to nursery nurses, link workers and any other support staff within the team (including supervision and monitoring the work of these staff)
Overseeing and planning in-service development for these staff
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion starts with our people shapes the way we deliver our services and the way we build our teams. We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to help us deliver great care to all of our communities.
BCHC offer an attractive Recruitment & Retention Premia for health visiting based on an additional payment for colleagues in Band 6 and Band 7 posts. It will be accompanied by a commitment to fund any reasonable request for continuing professional development during the year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered First Level Nurse Health Visitor Certificate/Diploma/Degree
- Evidence of recent professional development
- Non medical nurse prescriber
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of evidence based approaches in the provision of the Healthy Child Programme
- Evidence of assessment and care planning skills
- Ability to facilitate the learning of others in a one to one or group setting
- Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence base for the Healthy Child programme, and the 6 High impact areas for 0-5s
- Ability to demonstrate written skills that are relevant, accurate, concise and legible
- Ability to work in a supervisory capacity
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to Non Medical Prescribing
- Ability to use software packages as appropriate
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Independently mobile with ability to travel to fulfil job requirements
Desirable criteria
- Ability to occasionally work flexible hours, which may include weekends and evenings
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of postregistration nursing experience
- Evidence of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and safeguarding children
- Evidence of time and resource management
- Experience of applying learning into practice
- Experience of caseload management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yasmin Shakeel
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager- Hall Green District
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07860 916415
- Additional information
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