Family Health Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

    Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
    Whittington Hospital NHS Trust London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Are you a Nursery Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to work within an integrated service in Islington, supporting families and their children aged between 0-5 years through the delivery of services in children centres, homes, clinics and green spaces.

    Bright Start Health Visiting are key partners delivering the early childhood offer and we have a vacancy for a Family Health Advisor (Nursery Nurse) with an NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/CACHE Level 3 Diploma or equivalent.

    You will be working as a member of the health visiting team and alongside both health and early years staff. Your role is to support the health visitor mandated contacts with a particular focus on the 1-4 year old cohort, delivering agreed interventions and supporting engagement in the wealth of activities on offer including family kitchen, stay and plays, forest school and much more.

    We are also delivering the Start for life programme where you will be part of an exciting workforce that will be offering structured programmes Wellcomm tool to support children during the Health Reviews.

    Main duties of the job

    You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in a Bright Start Locality carrying out evidence-based child and family health assessments and develop child/family health plans in partnership with families and other key partners.

    You would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills withcolleagues and partners as well as families and children. Good computer skills are essential for the role, and you will be expected to work with the local electronic patient record system.

    There are lots of opportunities to participate in activities and training such as Forest School; Family Kitchen; antenatal Solihull programme as well as facilitating groups such as the well-established new parents group and starting solid food group. All of this work is managed within a framework which explains the training and supervision on offer starting with the induction programme and a six month probation which applies to all staff at Whittington.

    About us

    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.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

    Person Specification

    Education and Expereince

    Essential

  • CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care or equivalent and Education & 4 GCSEs, including English and maths ( A -C). See person specification

    • Knowledge, Skills and Ability

    Essential

  • Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
  • Willingness to support management of change
  • High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs.
  • Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance.
  • Ability to apply research to practice.
  • Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
  • Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
  • Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
  • Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
  • Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
  • Knowledge of infection control standards.

    • Experience of working with family

    Essential

  • Working in a nursery/community setting with children and families.