Health Visitor for the 0-5 ChatHealth Service
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO30 3JB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9348-25-2320 |
Summary
*To be a point of contact for GP practices and children's services within the county and to understand the integrated working arrangements with these services that support healthy outcomes for children *To promote and enhance health and wellbeing to children and their families via the 0-5 ChatHealth Service through assessment, implementation of individualised health care plans and evaluation of care, referring into 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service where additional support is required *To identify and assess children 0-4 with complex health needs, offering an opportunity for referral into an enhanced integrated service within the multi-agency arena *To be responsible for the day to day delivery of the 0-5 ChatHealth Service to ensure the team delivers the Healthy Child Programme including the six high impact areas, in order to improve health outcomes for children and achieve SHFT key performance indicators *To contribute to the development and implementation of effective clinical governance to ensure quality and manage risk within the team *To review and develop the service ensuring staff and service user participation and feedback contribute to continuous improvement *To be confident and competent in the use of digital platforms enabling families to access self help through both internal and external digital resources *Escalating IT issues and network outage to the CDTL as a matter of urgency and enact the service business continuity plan *To ensure timely communication with Health Visiting Teams and partner colleagues regarding referral and risk assessments to meet the needs of parents and those requiring further support *Work within the framework of the Baby Friendly Initiative 7 Point Plan for Sustaining Breastfeeding in the Community *To have safeguarding, management and clinical supervision at least every three months or as required as per Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (SHFT) policies including annual appraisal and review *To deputise for the CDTL when required to oversee the service *To ensure that ChatHealth Service provided complies with the requirements of the licence, standards set out in CQC and in accordance with the commissioned services *To ensure that incidents are reported on the Safeguard incident reporting system and actions taken as agreed by the CDTL *Continuation of professional development by developing own knowledge and skills and those of others through learning and development opportunities *To have knowledge of and comply with the lone working policy *Work with the CDTL to ensure full coverage of the service is maintained and managed within hours of operation using the service E-Roster *To work within NMC guidelines and to national and SHFT policies and procedures and within the Trust values *Attend team meetings across the service to provide information, updates and data analytics in relation to the 0-5 ChatHealth Service Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.