# Health Visitor, Turn Around for Children Service (TACS)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Edward Jenner Court
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Health visitor
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (pro rata)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T14:30:49.217Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Health_Visitor/Health_Visitor-v8314725
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8314725?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is a part time permanent post for 22.5 hours a week.

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven member of staff to join the Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) as a health visitor. The post holder will have responsibility to assess a specialist group of clients from the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). They will plan and implement health visitor services for each of our families based on their personal needs and as identified by the court process.

### Main duties of the job

To provide and maintain evidence-based specialist care adapted to meet the needs of a defined community population to ensure that service users receive appropriate intervention, maintaining the standards set at a local and national level.

Please see Job description for the full list of the main duties of this role.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will within a multiagency team to identify early and engage to help at risk families delivering evidenced based episodes of care.

The post holder will have a shared responsibility for managing skill mix teams

The post holder will participate in practice development and public health initiatives

The post holder will have responsibility for maintaining own professional accountability through supervision and updating.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to a degree level (or equivalent)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification, diploma or degree
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on part 1 or 2 (Registered Nurse of Midwife)- RHV Health Visitor HV Health Visitor

### Other requirements

**Essential**

- Ability to cope with a frequently changing professional climate

**Desirable**

- Ability to travel around the locality as requested, independently and efficiently.

### Length and /or nature of experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working across agencies
- Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
- Evidence of child protection experience
- Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs

### Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes

**Essential**

- Accurate clinical record keeping following national and local guidelines
- The ability to undertake in-depth and evidence based reports to assist allied professionals within the FDAC
- To deliver specific & specialised assessments and interventions
- Provision of accurate data following set systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Maintain records as per NMC guidelines/local policy
- IT literacy
- Ability to teach, assess and present
- Good listening, communication and networking skills
- Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Ability to undertake all statutory and mandatory training

**Desirable**

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages eg Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Outlook

### Professional/ managerial/ specialist knowledge

**Essential**

- Sound understanding of the NHS plan and other national policies and how it will impact on local services
- Knowledge of health visiting policies and procedures that underpin evidence based practice

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of Family Drug and Alcohol Court, framework and practices

## Documents

- [cyps hv tacs jd (pdf, 274.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10635632)
- [cyps hv tacs ps (pdf, 137.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10635633)
- [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522)
- [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656)

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