Health Visitor

Job overview

Job locations:

Acacia Children's Centre, CR4 1SD - 1 position Lavender Steers Mead Children's Centre, CR4 3HL - 1 position

We are looking for an enthusiastic Health Visitor to join our 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.

Both part-time and full-time applications are welcome, and flexible working arrangements can be discussed.

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 Merton.

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

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

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.