Bank Health Visitor band 6 - South west | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £18.80 - £22.92 pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | Various, SW11 2LN |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6340755/824-BANK-0577679874 |
Summary
• To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative health visiting service, and where appropriate,
delegate to other members of the Health Visiting team to ensure delivery of a quality service
• To deliver the healthy child programme and work in partnership with families to develop and
agree tailored health plans to address their parenting and health needs.
• To actively participate in service development activities.
• To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless
delivery of services for clients and communities
• providing health advice and health education programmes
• undertaking developmental assessments of babies and children
• helping people come to terms with issues such as postnatal depression
• establishing and addressing key health needs
• referral to and liaison with other relevant organisations
• assessing parenting skills and children's home situations, and offering parents any further support that may be needed
• working with other professionals such as social workers, GPs and school nurses
CLCH NHS Trust is currently re-shaping the way Health Visitors work, looking at new and innovative practices to improve health across London. This includes agile working and provision of laptops to all staff.
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based health visiting service to clients in a variety
of community settings.
• To apply specialist skills and knowledge in the delivery of the health visiting service.
• To consult, advise and educate individuals and families on good health care practices.
• To develop health profiles of the defined population and local communities, identifying
health needs of disadvantaged groups and targeting outreach services to meet their needs.
• To identify, prioritise and implement programmes of care that meets the public health needs
of the population.
• To provide parenting skills support and information both through coordinating /participating
in parenting groups and one to one home visits to families, especially those children and
families identified with complex health needs/vulnerabilities
• To provide health assessments, advice and education to families and individuals of all ages in
the population group, prioritising services appropriate to local public health and population
need.
• To develop and implement regular health promotion initiatives on specific health issues and.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024