Health Visitor Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time substantive/ part time  post for NNEB or equivalently trained and experienced practitioner. You will become a valuable member of the health visiting team working with families and carers of children living in Lewisham.

You will need to be pro-active, have good communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrate an understanding of the public health role within health visiting.

An induction program will be provided for successful candidates to support their transition into the community health visiting team. Candidates do not need to have experience of working within the health visiting service but need to have experience of working with children and families, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Health Visiting, Health Promotion, Key developmental milestones of young children and safeguarding knowledge. This will be demonstrated within the application form and at interview.

Main duties of the job

You will be able to gain and develop skills within the local community, public health and the children’s agenda. Bespoke training is provided to support individuals and ensure competencies within the role. We may also have an opportunity in the future for further training/studying to support your role.

We also offer additional benefits through our employee assistance scheme, as well as the inner high-cost area supplement for working in London. Our staff’s work life balance is very important to us, and we therefore offer flexible working and condensed hours. All clinical staff are provided with mobile devices which also supports flexible working opportunities.

If you would like to join our team and make a tangible difference to children, young people and families lives we would like to hear from you. A clean driving license, access to a car or alternative transport i.e., bicycle is an essential requirement of this post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a member of the Health Visiting Team.  In conjunction with the Health Visiting Team he/she will contribute to the assessment of health needs and delivery of appropriate services to meet needs of both the individual and the wider Community within a defined area of the Primary Care Trust population.

She/he will undertake duties as delegated by the Health Visitor, which includes child health promotion and surveillance, predictive guidance  support and advice to families with children under 5 years of age. She/he works as part of the primary health care team, liaising and working with statutory and voluntary agencies to promote the health and wellbeing of the local population as appropriate.