Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams
• Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/ understanding e.g. child protection, domestic violence bereavement and where English is not the first language.
• Ensure effective communication with all members of multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency partners, in particular children’s centres, early years’ providers, social services and GP practices.
• Ensure all information about patients is treated confidentially and comply with trust policies on data protection, information sharing and governance
• Participate in team and other meetings as required

2. Knowledge, training and experience

• A recognised child care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC national diploma
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification relevant experience
• A sound knowledge of child development
• Communication and interpersonal skills with clients, colleagues and teams.
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients.
• Possessing an up to date personal development plan showing evidence of continuing professional development
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.

3. Analytical and judgement skills

• Assess, implement and plan services under the guidance of the community health nurse/health visitor
• Ability to use observation skills and feedback to team members
• Evaluate individual and community health care programmes in collaboration with the community health nurse/health visitor

4. Planning and organisational skills

• Responsible for planning own work
• To facilitate group work on relevant health promotion topics
• Ability to be flexible and develop within the changing needs of the service and clients
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is up to date in line with organisational policy

5. Physical skills

• Keyboard skills
• Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools
• Ability to travel to diverse sites in a timely manner

6. Responsibility for client care

• To work in collaboration with the service in implementing and evaluating individual and community health care programmes
• To participate in the delivery of designated public health and health promotion activities.
• To implement and plan services with individual families under the guidance of the health visitor
• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult protection guidelines and procedures
• Ensure effective communication with clients and colleagues
• To ensure the provision of a high quality service that is led by client need and is evidence based
• Access clinical supervision as per trust policy

7. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• To support the health visiting team in service and practice development initiatives to improve standards and outcomes.  

8. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Comply with the trusts standing orders and standing financial instructions
• Responsible for the safe and careful use of equipment in clinics and during home visits (e.g. weighing scales)

9. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• To adhere to all organisational policy and procedures
• To provide support and advice to other colleagues within the team. 

10. Responsibilities for information resources

• Responsibility for timely accurate record keeping and safeguarding client confidentiality by adhering to caldicott principles
• Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, management and evaluation.

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