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Bank Health Visitor

Job details
Posting date: 13 May 2024
Salary: £36,648.00 to £42,403.00 per year
Additional salary information: £36648.00 - £42403.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 01 June 2024
Location: Southend-on-sea, SS26ER
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Contract
Job reference: F0033-24-0011

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Summary

To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and it is implemented in practice, ensuring services are provided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity, Universal, targeted, and Specialist. To promote the health of all children and young people, especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the opportunity to achieve optimum development. To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. 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. Work in accordance to the commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice. To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. 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 individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and or Specilaist cases within the Health Visiting caseload. To appropriately delegate and supervise workload within the skill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competency frameworks. 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. Liaise and maintain good working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as necessary. Be competent as a non-medical prescriber. Full job description is attached.

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