Band 6 Health Visitor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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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 openings in the following districts:

Sutton Coldfield
Hall Green
Erdington
Ladywood
Northfield
Yardley
Selly Oak

If you wantto 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.

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

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.

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.

To consistently demonstrate in all relationships with families, colleagues and partner professionals, the BCHC Trust Values and the 6 Cs of nursing of commitment, competence, courage, communication, compassion and care in the role of Health Visitor. To develop a workload profile identifying those groups within the population with specific health needs.
To work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice case load, families using local children's centres early education clusters, and other health partners.
To deliver the health child programme through compassionate caring assessment and analysis of need, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care using assessment tools in accordance with commissioner service specification for the health visiting service order to address identified health need. To use the common assessment framework to assess and plan with families where multiagency partnership working is required.
To formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to need, where necessary opening active health and well being files. To monitor all open files in accordance with the records management policy, closing when package of care is complete.
To carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities, meeting and reporting on agreed key performance indicators where appropriate.
To give evidence based advice on health issues to members of the local population in a way which promotes behavioural change and builds on strengths.
To work to current NICE guidelines on antenatal and postnatal mental health to identify, support and referral of women at risk of developing postnatal depression, and those who are mild to moderately d