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BANK Health Visitor - Band 6
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Bank Health Visitor to join our team and help deliver a high-quality, innovative Health Visiting Service across our communities.
In this role, you will plan, organise, deliver, and evaluate an effective and evidence-based health visiting service, ensuring that children and families receive the highest standard of care. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide skilled health visiting interventions in a variety of community settings, promoting positive health outcomes and supporting families to achieve the best possible start in life.
You will work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, partner agencies, and local services to ensure seamless and integrated care for children, families, and communities. As part of the wider team, you will contribute to the achievement of Quality Strategy objectives and support the continuous improvement of services.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent clinical skills, strong communication and leadership abilities, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and person-centred care. You will also support the development of colleagues through training, teaching, and professional leadership, helping to maintain high standards of practice across the service.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver the healthy child programme and work in partnership with families to develop and agree tailored health plans as required
- Utilising specialist skills and knowledge, advise and support individuals and families on evidence-based health care practices.
- Understand the caseload profile including the health needs of the defined population and local communities, targeting outreach services to meet their needs.
- Initiate referrals to multi-disciplinary/agency colleagues as required to ensure adequate care and support for families and children
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual/group programmes of care that meet the public health needs of the population
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
- Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
- Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc.)
- Current knowledge of child protection issues
Experience
Essential
- Health visiting experience
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
- Experience in providing practice-based learning support to others
- Experience of evidence-based care
- Experience of supervising staff / students
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
- Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
- Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards
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This advert is for Bank Health Visitor with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Health visitor role. The advertised salary is £24.52 (inclusive of HACS). The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 21 Jul 2026.
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