Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visitor Band 6
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3293
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various sites
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,485 - £52,521 Per Annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Health Visitor Band 6
Band 6
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Job overview
Band 6 Health Visitor
Are you a passionate Health Visitor eager to make a transformative impact on families and children during their crucial first five years? If so, we have an incredible opportunity just for you!
Join us at the Barnet 0-19 Service, now proudly a part of Whittington Health Trust, which serves vibrant communities across five North London boroughs.
Why Choose Us?
Be Part of a Diverse and Dynamic Community: Barnet is a bustling, richly diverse borough where you'll find endless opportunities to collaborate with a variety of partners and make a real difference.
Integrated, Supportive Team: Our 0-19 Service team is friendly, supportive, and united by a common goal – to put children and their families at the heart of everything we do.
Innovative Training and Development: We believe in continuous growth. Benefit from our robust training programs and stimulating professional development opportunities designed to expand your skillset.
Flexible Working: We understand the importance of work-life balance. We can support you with flexible working arrangements where suitable.
Prioritising Your Wellbeing: At Whittington Health, your wellbeing is our priority. You can access a wide range of support and resources to ensure you’re always at your best.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP.
1. To manage a caseload of families. The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP.
2. To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
3. To line manage junior members of staff, ensuring the completion of annual appraisals, 1:1s, and personal development of self and junior staff. Support staff with performance, ensuring that poor performance is addressed appropriately.
4. To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
5. To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
6. To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Children’s Centres in an area.
7. To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsive to all sections of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties of the job
The Health Visitor is responsible for the delivery of the universal and targeted Healthy Child Programme (HCP) to local families. The Health Visitor will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective HCP.
- To manage a caseload of families. The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a family or community. To use child and family centred public health approaches to address health inequalities.
- To line manage junior members of staff, ensuring the completion of annual appraisals, 1:1s, and personal development of self and junior staff. Support staff with performance, ensuring that poor performance is addressed appropriately.
- To support students and new starters. To support the retention and recruitment of staff.
- To deliver needs led evidence-based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP Practices and Children’s Centres in an area.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Willingness to develop and support management of change
- Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
- Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely
- Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
- Collect and monitor data as required
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Knowledge of infection control standards.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children
Desirable criteria
- Management experience in a health service setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Must have ability to build professional and personal credibility
- Must have ability to recognise own need for support and supervision
- Able to exercise initiative
- Self - motivated
- Work flexibly to address the needs of the service
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Matthew Jones
- Job title
- Locality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785809012
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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WHT
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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