Family Health Advisor

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

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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 e.g. 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.

Date posted

17 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£30,279 to £33,116 a year per annum including HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

220-WHT-2122

Job locations

Bingfield Primary care Centre

8 Bingfield Street

Islington

N1 0AL

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.