# Health Visitor

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** Emergency/Out of Hours Dental Services
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Health visitor
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14T08:20:47.866Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Central_London_Community_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Health_Visitor/Health_Visitor-v8327373
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8327373?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.clch.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Health Visitor to join our Wandsworth Health Visiting Service. This is an exciting opportunity to lead, deliver and influence a comprehensive health visiting service that meets the public health needs of children, families and local communities within community settings across the borough.

You will play a key role in improving health outcomes and life chances for children and families, while contributing to safeguarding responsibilities in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018). Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based care.

The successful candidate will plan, organise and evaluate health visiting services, working in partnership with families and other health and social care professionals to ensure seamless, joined-up support. You will also help drive continuous improvement and contribute to quality and service development initiatives across the team.

Find out more information about working and living in South West London here - https://clch.nhs.uk/job/working-clch/clch-southwestlondon#!/select_sector

### Main duties of the job

As a Health Visitor, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme and provide a skilled, effective and evidence-based service to children and families within community settings across Wandsworth.

Key responsibilities include:

- Working in partnership with families to assess needs, develop personalised health plans and support positive health outcomes for children and parents.
- Using specialist skills and knowledge to provide advice, guidance and support 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.
- Initiating referrals and working closely with multidisciplinary and multi-agency colleagues to ensure children and families receive coordinated care and support.
- Promoting safeguarding, early intervention and health promotion to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives and the delivery of team and organisational objectives.
- Please refer to Job description and personal specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities**

### 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

### 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
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Ability to work without direct supervision and plan, organise, review and prioritise own workload and others
- Able to delegate work effectively and safely
- Able to adapt to change and have an open approach to new ways of working

### 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

### Key Attributes

**Essential**

- Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post

### 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

## Documents

- [clch trust values (pdf, 893.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649868)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 439.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649867)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 544.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649866)

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