Health Visitor - Grays, United Kingdom - NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
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Grays, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment (VCOD) for Healthcare Workers


If you are a qualified Health Visitor or a Student Health Visitor due to qualify this year we would like to hear from you.


  • Leadership
  • Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme working in ways most appropriate to local public health needs and across a range of settings and organisations including; general practice, maternity services and Children's Centres.
  • Active participation in Children's Centres Advisory Boards, promoting, and providing advice on the Healthy Child programme's evidence base, to maximise safe delivery by appropriately skilled staff.
  • Act as a General Practice link Health Visitor as aligned by your Team Leaderto provide effective communication, support and direction with regards to identified children within the practice, the Healthy Child programme, and required services within your local community.
  • To participate in projects that deliver clinical and service improvements and health gain outcomes whilst improving the health and wellbeing of the child and family.
  • Deputise for the Team Leader/Specialist Health Visitor as required.
  • Be responsible for setting exemplary standards and acting as a role model for others.
  • Be responsive to local health needs using skills of advocacy as appropriate e.g. committee membership.
  • Responsible for the organisation cover in periods of planned absence e.g. annual leave and study leave.
  • Act as a health resource to other agencies.
  • Attend staff meetings and team briefings as required
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London (B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest)


This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,108 to a maximum of £5,177).

High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe (Basildon, Thurrock, Brentwood, Harlow and Darftord only)

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,136 to a maximum of £1,915)

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster.

We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.


Key Responsibilities:


To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, and ensure the 4, 5, 6 Service model is implemented in practice.


  • Ensure services are provided within the 4 tier model
  • Your Community, Universal, Universal plus and Partnership plus. This will incorporate building community capacity, and embedding this into caseload, team and locality management.
  • Responsible for the management of caseload allocation as per locality/team, and classify cases in line national stratify of Universal, Universal plus and Universal partnership plus.
  • Work in accordance to the Locality commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice and the 6 High impact areas are embedded within practice.
  • To improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people especially those from disadvantaged groups.
  • To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs, taking into account cultural diversity. This will be achieved through evidence based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families and groups utilising best available evidence.
  • To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify appropriate plans/packages of care in line with Universal, Universal plus and or Partnership plus cases within the Health Visiting caseload.
  • To provide expert advice, support and interventions to all families with children in the first years of life.
  • To identify the needs of individual children, parents and families (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existing local services, thereby promoting early intervention.
  • To operate within Children & Young People Services Child Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.
  • To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for Safeguarding children.
  • To support the development of caseload profiles on a local and Trustwide via caseload weighting and analysis, identifying priorities of need and facilitate in the planning of future service provision in negotiation and partnership with Commissioners and key stakeholders.
  • Liaise and maintain good working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as necessary. This is with the informed consent of clients and within Trust policies.
  • Undertake Nurse P
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