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Bank B6 Health Visitor North West | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 02 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22.92 pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2024 |
| Location: | North west, SW6 4UL |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6611869/824-HVINW-26 |
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
Leading and coordinating the healthy child programme by carrying out the 5 mandated contact visits.
Providing a seamless service to universal and vulnerable children and families by working in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.
Early identification, intervention, and appropriate onward referral. Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Reduced ability to deliver on KPI’s
Patient safety will continue to be at risk
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 Monday 16 Sep 2024