Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year (Short Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF6799-A
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Downham Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £41,892 per annum incl. HCAS (Annex 21 - 75% of band 6)
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Health Visiting SCPHN student
Band 6
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) are offering sponsorship for qualified Nurses and Midwives to complete the SCPHN qualification at level 7, to become a Health Visitor. The post is fully funded by NHSE, and successful candidates will be paid AFC Band 6 (Annex 21). Candidate are required to be NMC registrants, have a Level 6 qualification at 2:2 or above and be able to commence the programme in September 2025 at Kings College university or at LSBU (London South Bank University) or January 2026 at University of Greenwich.
It's an exciting time to be part of an organisation that is shaping the future of 0-19 children’s services in SE London. Are you eager to develop your skills, knowledge and understanding of the public health approach to reducing health inequalities? At LGT, SCPHN’s (Health Visitors and School nurses) lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, provision of Universal Services and Targeted interventions to those children and families with the greatest need.
We are invested in the development of Public Health Nursing, and this is underpinned by our Public Health Nursing strategy and training programme for all roles within the PHN teams.
All Health Visitors and Assistant HV Practitioners have corporate membership with the Institute of Health Visiting (iHv) which offers a wealth of professional training programmes and resources to support excellent practice.
Main duties of the job
What we are looking for:
· The ability to be innovative and adaptive to meet the needs of the children and families on our caseload.
· Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme
· An interest in wider determinants of health to tackle public health needs and the drivers that influence our profession.
· Excellent communication and listening skills
· The ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
· Emotional maturity in difficult or distressing situations
· Leadership qualities and the willingness to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
· A high level of academic skills and the ability to cope with a very intense year with academic deadlines.
· A reflective learner able to build on previous experience and knowledge.
If you are successfully shortlisted, interviews will take place at Downham Health Centre BR1 5EP – on either Monday 13th October or Monday 20th October. The interview will be in 2 parts over one day starting from 9am; part 1 shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend together as a group to discuss an unseen topic/question. Part 2 will be the individual, panelled interviews where you will be invited to deliver a short 5-minute presentation at the beginning; details for the latter will be provided once candidates are shortlisted.
Candidates are required to hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Current NMC Registration for nursing or midwifery
or
• Evidence of application for NMC registration and confirmed
NMC registration within 2 months of the start date
• This is post graduate diploma route so a 2:1 /2:2 Honours Degree is
necessary and also dependent of acceptance at the approved SCPHN HEI
Please refer to the candidate guidance for HEI details
Eligibility to work in the UK.
ALL sections of application form completed FULLY according to
written guidelines
Literacy and Numeracy at the level of the National Qualifications
Framework at level 1-2 for Numeracy (equivalent of GCSE) and 3-4
for Literacy (equivalent of A level).
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration for nursing or midwifery or • Evidence of application for NMC registration and confirmed NMC registration within 2 months of the start date
- DipHE (or above) qualification equivalent to 120 credits at level 5 (of the Higher Education Credit Framework for England) 2 or evidence of previous education and learning to this level. 3
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continual professional development at level 6
- Degree
Fitness to Practice
Essential criteria
- Is up to date and fit to practice safely
Application Completion
Essential criteria
- ALL sections of application form completed FULLY according to written guidelines
Literacy and Numeracy
Essential criteria
- Literacy and Numeracy at the level of the National Qualifications Framework at level 1-2 for Numeracy (equivalent of GCSE) and 3-4 for Literacy (equivalent of A level).
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Public Health role of contemporary health visiting & working in community settings
- Knowledge of local and national policies which influence the provision of health visiting
- Current knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams
- Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing staff within a team
- Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Linda Johnstone
- Job title
- Neighbourhood HV Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07833288233
- Additional information
hours of work: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8 - 4pm
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