Health Visitor - Stockport, United Kingdom - Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

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Stockport, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Full and part time hours available

The Health Visiting Service in Stockport is seeking to employ a Health Visitor who is enthusiastic and committed to improving the outcomes for children and families in Stockport.

The Health Visitors are a key part of our integrated Start Well Team, holding named health visitor 0-5 geographical caseloads to support children to get the best start in life.

They work closely with early years providers, GPs and Midwives.

The service has well established skill mix teams consisting of Staff Nurses, Start Well coordinators, Early Years Workers and Health Visitor Assistants who together deliver the Healthy Child Programme and early years pathways.

They are part of Stockport Family which is an innovative, integrated children's service, designed to ensure strong working relationships between health, Local authority and Education providers, and working alongside colleagues in the Local Authority, Primary Care and voluntary and statutory agencies.

As a health visitor in an integrated team you will lead the healthy child programme 0-5 and manage a named health visitor mixed caseload of universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus families.

You will provide holistic assessment, and utilise planning skills to identify and address health needs in a defined local population

You will provide early help support to families when required utilising the Early Help Assessment and working with Start Well Team colleagues within a Team Around the Early Years model

You will provide health visiting assessments and interventions for children in child in need and child protection working alongside children's social care

You will be accountable for your work and delegate activities as required to other members of the integrated Start Well Team

You will maintain a focus on Public Health priorities, using a community strengths based approach to reduce inequalities

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve.

We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important.

We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS pension scheme membership
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
NHS Staff discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Salary finance for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
Stockport Credit Union

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See attached Job Description and person specification

The role requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be adaptable, reliable and approachable. You will also be required to demonstrate up to date knowledge and understanding of the national agenda for children and families and how this will impact on your role as a Health Visitor

About us

We value our staff and are committed to their positive health and well being

There is a strong focus on personal and professional development with support of the leadership team and the wider NHS Trust resources

We support staff with regular supervision, both from Team Leader and for safeguarding caseload

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately

If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.