Health Visitor, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Health Visitor, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Do you want to work as a Health Visitor, Specialist Community Public Health Nursein one of the most vibrant, diverse and rewarding areas in West London? Joining Central and North-West London NHS Foundation Trust in Hillingdon can offer you the opportunities and experiences you are looking for. At CNWL we are fully committed to improving the health of all families living in Hillingdon and helping to ensure that all children fulfil their potential.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a qualified Health Visitor. You will work autonomously as part of the Integrated Early Years Service (Health Visiting & Family Support) managing a designated caseload of children and families, in order to improve their health and enable them to reach their full potential.

You will work collaboratively with other agencies to provide high quality care to children and families. Child protection work will involve gathering and analysing information to make informed assessments, appropriate referrals and participating and contributing at case conferences and core group meetings.

You will support public health initiatives in line with local and national priorities which promote, protect and improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.

Person specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies and be competent in using Word, Teams, Zoom, Outlook and other electronic systems

Desirable

• Supervision and appraisal training.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse [NMC Registered]
• Registered Specialist Practitioner Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor)
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

• Mentorship Preparation Module/ ENB 998/ Practice Assessor

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children, families, and/or vulnerable groups
• Ability to work autonomously while recognising limits and seeking support appropriately.
• Knowledge of safeguarding children, including current legislation and local procedures
• Experience of delivering the Healthy Child Programme

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

About the employer

Your experience as a new starter in CNWL is extremely important to us and you can find out how your journey from your first day to the end of your first year will be supported by clicking onto "New Starter Roadmap" which is attached with the job description. Across our organisation we have a thriving set of active staff networks to promote inclusion and communication with our diverse workforce (BAME, LGBTQ+, 50+, Disabled Employees, Women's, Carers and Lived Experience of Mental Health) and staff will have access to a range of personal, financial and wellbeing benefits.

As well as talking to one of our managers we would be delighted to put you in touch with a recently recruited member of staff in one of our services who can answer any questions that you might have about their experience as a new starter and of the culture in our services.