Student Health Visitor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is an innovative and caring organisation in the heart of the Black Country. The Health Visiting service forms part of the organisation and has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC.

A great opportunity has arisen to join our organisation as a Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and thoughtful practitioners who are passionate about making a difference to children and families.

You will be a caring professional with an interest in public health and a genuine desire to promote the needs of the child and ultimately provide leadership within community health.

You will be motivated to learn and develop your skills and be committed to providing safe, quality and compassionate care.

Applications are invited from nurses and midwives with the appropriate entry requirements and evidence of recent continued professional development. Current NMC registration and a full driving licence are essential.


Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff.

Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.


Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.

The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.


We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  • Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  • Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  • Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Health Visiting


Health Visiting practice involves planned activities aimed at improving physical, mental, emotional and the social health and wellbeing of the population, consisting of preventing disease and reducing inequalities in health.


Health Visiting's overall purpose is to improve health and social wellbeing through identifying health needs, raising awareness and, influencing the broader context that affects health and social wellbeing by enabling and empowering people to improve their own health.


The Health Visiting contribution to public health takes into account the differing dynamics and needs if individuals, families and groups, and the community as a whole.


The four principles of Health Visiting are:

  • The search for health needs
  • The stimulation of awareness of health needs
  • The influence on policies affecting health
  • The facilitation of an awareness of health needs


Health Visitors manage their own caseload within a corporate team and will see families at home and also in clinic settings.

They work collaboratively with partner agencies including Sandwell Children's Trust, GP's, local Children's Centres, nursery and education settings to deliver a range of support services to families across the borough.

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