Specialist Health Visitor – Video Interaction Guidance Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £47,810.00 i £54,710.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Stoke on Trent, ST6 1SA |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9301-26-0390 |
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This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn 1. Provide highly skilled specialist consultation, support and training to colleagues todevelop their skills in critical thinking, reflective practice and knowledge aboutparental and infant mental health, the dyadic relationship and the importance ofwhole family engagement.2. Provide one-to-one Video Interaction Guidance sessions to parents and babies(typically weekly for six weeks) using video feedback to help parents tune into theirbabys cues, understand behaviour, and build confidence.3. Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receivecomplex and often highly sensitive information. Use strengths based, solutionfocused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to developbehaviour change strategies using the principles of VIG. This includes values andbeliefs around respect and empowerment, guiding analysis of behaviour, explorationof feelings and thoughts, and movement to wishes and intentions.4. Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clientsand their families and analyse complex family situations in order to developappropriate clinical interventions, including assessing the needs of partners/fathers.5. Develop therapeutic relationships, requiring in-depth mental attention andconcentration for extended periods, and promote adaptive behaviour change in thefamily home and other environments.6. Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.Head of FunctionUniversal ServicesSpecialist HealthVisitor VIGIntegrated HV andSN 0-19 ServiceStoke On TrentService ManagerThrive at Five7. Act on own interpretation of assessed clinical situation within the home setting. Ableto refer clients onto other specialist services as required on own authority.8. Undertake VIG interventions to increase the dyadic relationship between infant andcarer, improving the life chances for the child.9. Ability to effectively deliver training to the 0-19 team and other disciplines asrequired. To lead in the training analysis and gap identification of the 0-19 team inrelation to VIG.10. As the specialist, lead on VIG within this project and VIG future programme targets,working alongside Thrive at Five and the wider stakeholder group.11. Develop and maintain effective communication with 0-19 teams and to maintainproductive working relationships. Ensure that all clients and colleagues are treated atall times in an equitable manner, respecting and showing an understanding ofdiversity in the workplace12. Identify families eligible for VIG within the universal early years pathway (e.g., healthvisitor contacts, family hub sessions). Recruit and engage eligible, sometimes hard toreach families to VIG and maintain their engagement throughout the process.13. Conduct initial appointments and explain the VIG process to parents in a nonstigmatising, supportive way.14. Align VIG sessions with other universal and targeted interventions (e.g., parent-babytoddler groups, development review).15. Develop a fair, workable referral pathway into VIG, to cover a range of refereesacross Stoke on Trent.