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Health Vistor
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Doncaster, DN1 3QS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0364-25-0003 |
Summary
Role Summary: This role is crucial to the development and clinical relevance of the programme. This job can be taken by multiple professions and anyone who is a midwife, health visitor or dietitian would be eligible for this role Key Responsibilities: 1. Promote the Service Working with the Family Food Programme team, The Primary Care Dietitians Leadership team and commissioners you will positively promote the service to potential service users and referral agents. This will require attending events across Doncaster throughout the life of the programme. 2. Conduct assessments of all referred families Using your significant clinical experience in infant feeding and maternal health, you will assess each referred family. This will be evidence-based and help identify those with higher-level needs to take the one-to-one pathway of the delivery programme. 3. Develop and Deliver 1:1 pathway Interventions These will be 3 lots of 1-hour-long appointments specially for families with higher needs. These may take place in a clinic venue or over the telephone or be via a messaging service so long as the Data Protection Act is observed and the participants' preferences are respected. 4. Develop Group Session content Create the groups programme of 5 sessions each of 9-0 minutes long, following the Responsive Feeding Framework and using behaviour change techniques to influence change. The sessions will address Parenting and Feeding styles, attitudes and beliefs The parent/carers relationship with food and their own body image practical support to access resources and develop personal plans of action to enable infants to be fed responsively. 5. Develop Training Packages and Deliver training and supervision to the Family Food Programme Assistant To ensure the family Food Programme Assistant is confident and competent to deliver the group sessions and drop-in question and answer sessions, you will train them in line with their needs, respecting their existing knowledge and skills. 6. Support the development of content for the digital/ social media platforms Using your clinic expertise, you will develop content for 7 minute videos and podcast type content for the social and digital media platforms being used in this programme as an alternative to face to face provision. You will be supported to record the content. Editing will be completed by a professional 7. Develop Training and supervision packages and deliver training and supervision to other service providers In year 2 of the programme other providers of services to families will be trained, using a combination of the Responsive Feeding Framework, Infant Feeding Guidelines and Compassionate Approaches to Weight evidence base alongside practical applications of these and behaviour change techniques based on your findings and experiences from the group and drop-in delivery across Doncaster. You will lead the delivery of the training, supporting the Family Food Programme Assistant to develop their competency to deliver training sessions. Once other service providers have been trained, you will supervise delivery of interventions and support the Family Food Programme Assistant to supervise as well, providing constructive feedback to enable other service providers to continue to improve their approaches. 8. Develop & deliver Peer Supporter Programme In Year 3 of the programme, peer supporters will be recruited and trained, using the same principles as for the other service providers as above. You will lead the delivery of the training, supporting the Family Food Programme Assistant to develop their competency to deliver training sessions. Once Peer Supporters have been trained, you will supervise the delivery of interventions and support the Family Food Programme Assistant to supervise as well, providing constructive feedback to enable peer supporters to continue to improve their approaches. 9. Supporting the Family Food Programme Team with Signposting Information. Some parents will prefer to access information via our Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp pages. You will support the whole team in finding useful information and services, particularly local Doncaster ones, to signpost digital users towards as well as to signpost or refer those in groups and accessing Drop-In Support sessions. 10. Collect Feedback from participants Actively collect feedback from and seek the opinions of the families who are involved with and those who will benefit from the Family Food Programme. Ensuring the ways of collecting this are flexible and inclusive of all types of diverse needs. 11. Support Evaluation of the programme As this is a new programme of work it is expected to continuously evolve and change, based on feedback from participants and opinions of diverse communities about the content. 12. Support Registration to Doncasters BABiD Programme Encourage and support first-time families to register with Doncasters BABiD programme. Key Working Relationships: Family Food Programme Assistant Family Food Apprentice Operational Manager Primary Care Dietitians Leadership Team Doncaster Primary Care Dietitians Doncaster Family Hubs Staff Doncaster Health Visitors Doncaster Midwives Health & Safety: All staff are required to take reasonable care for the health, safety and welfare of themselves and of others who may be affected by their actions or omissions. Staff must co-operate fully with the Primary Care Dietitians policies and procedures relating to health and safety, report any health and safety concerns promptly, and actively participate in training and risk assessments as required. Compliance with all statutory requirements and Primary Care Dietitians procedures is mandatory. Confidentiality & Data Protection: All staff are required to comply with Primary Care Dietitians Information Governance Framework, ensuring the secure handling, storage, transmission, and disposal of information in line with best practice and relevant legislation. This includes adherence to the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and NHS Digital standards where applicable. Staff must complete mandatory Information Governance training and demonstrate an understanding of their responsibilities in maintaining confidentiality, protecting personal data, and supporting safe information sharing within multi-agency settings.