Job overview

At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, we have a new and exciting opportunity within our well established Health Visiting Service. We are looking for innovative Registered NMC Nurses or Midwives with an interest in health visiting to work as a Healthy Child Practitioner to deliver a core programme to children young people and families in SWB NHS Trust. This is a secondment/fixed term position to introduce the successful candidates to the role of the Health Visitor, with the opportunity to apply for the fully funded Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in Health Visiting. The HCP will work within the Health Visiting Service as part of the Acute and Community Paediatric Directorate.  They will support and deliver the Universal Children’s services in line with the HCP 0-5 years.

Main duties of the job

Day to day relationship will be with other members of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, Administration Officers, patients, carers and multi-agency professionals.

Training and evaluation will be provided to enable the individual to develop the competence to function effectively within this role and will have exposure to the mandated contacts of a Health Visitor in order to help them to progress onto the Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) SCPHN in Health Visiting.

Mandatory contacts include;

• Antenatal visits
• New birth visits
• 6-8 week contact
• 9-12 month development review
• 2-2.5 development review

Other duties to include;

• Baby/Child weight reviews
• Health promotion and public health advice
• Maternal mental health support
• Support babies/children and their families with concerns or medical conditions
• Safeguarding
• Multi agency working

Working for our organisation

We are a progressive service who encourages innovative, forward thinking professionals, who are keen to embrace change and provide the best quality of care for communities.

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We offer:

• Integrated team working
• Practice support and clinical/restorative supervision
• Access to wellbeing support
• Supportive induction package
• Excellent training package and access to training opportunities for professional development
• Opportunity to participate in work streams of interest
• Access to Trust benefits, including NHS Fleet Solutions car scheme
• Flexible working opportunities

As a Healthy Child Practitioner within Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) you will work within corporate teams who are supported by Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses, a Health Visitor Contact Centre and are led and managed by Health Visitor Team Leaders and Clinical Lead for Health Visiting.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.