Healthy Family Practitioner

Job summary

Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community? If so, wed love to hear from you! Were looking for a Healthy Family Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated Lancashire 019 Health Visiting Team based in Pendle Ribble Valley, where youll play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families across the area. This is a part-time fixed-term opportunity working 30 hours per week with a planned start date of 01/09/26 31/08/27. What you'll be doing: Your responsibilities will include: Carrying out delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre1 Year and 22.5Year Developmental Checks. Identifying children who may need additional support and referring into specialist services. Providing targeted support on areas such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated packages of care. Working closely with parents and carers to support child development and wellbeing. Supporting the delivery of Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions across the East locality (5.307.30pm) What we're looking for: Youll be someone who is compassionate, proactive, and able to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community? If so, wed love to hear from you! Were looking for a Healthy Family Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated Lancashire 019 Health Visiting Team based in Pendle Ribble Valley, where youll play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families across the area. This is a part-time fixed-term opportunity working 30 hours per week with a planned start date of 01/09/26 31/08/27. Your responsibilities will include carrying out delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre1 Year and 22.5Year Developmental Checks, identifying children who may need additional support and referring into specialist services, providing targeted support on areas such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and working closely with parents and carers to support child development and wellbeing.

About us

As a Healthy Family Practitioner with HCRG Care Group, youll be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team focused on clinical excellence and high-quality care. Your work will have a meaningful impact through facilitating parenting groups, providing 1:1 guidance to families, and supporting children to achieve their potential. We work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, MSK services, and adult social care. We support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Details

• Date posted: 01 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £27,674 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
• Reference number: 1522369341
• Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Pendle Ribble Valley, BB9 7HT, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community?If so, wed love to hear from you!

Were looking for a Healthy Family Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated Lancashire 019 Health Visiting Team based in Pendle Ribble Valley, where youll play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families across the area.

This is a part-time fixed-term opportunity working 30 hours per week with a planned start date of 01/09/26 31/08/27.

What you'll be doing:

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre1 Year and 22.5Year Developmental Checks
• Identifying children who may need additional support and referring into specialist services
• Providing targeted support on areas such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated packages of care
• Working closely with parents and carers to support child development and wellbeing
• Supporting the delivery of Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions across the East locality (5.307.30pm)

What we're looking for:

Youll be someone who is compassionate, proactive, and able to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Essential Qualifications

• NNEB qualification or equivalent (e.g. BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing, NVQ Level 3 Childcare & Education, Foundation Degree in Early Years/Education)

Essential Experience & Skills

• Experience in health promotion or public health activities
• Team working experience
• Awareness of safeguarding and child protection
• Strong understanding of child development and parenting
• Flexible approach to meet service needs
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team
• Accurate record keeping and ability to maintain high standards of documentation
• Ability to contribute to audit and research
• Competence in creating and implementing familycentred action plans
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• IT literacy, including local and webbased systems
• Commitment to continuous learning and development
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Who you are:

Youre passionate about the wellbeing and development of children.You thrive in a team environment, embrace flexibility, and are motivated by making a positive difference to families across Lancashire.

Why join us?

As a Healthy Family Practitioner with HCRG Care Group, youll be part of a supportive, forwardthinking team focused on clinical excellence and highquality care. Your work will have a meaningful impact through:

• Facilitating parenting groups
• Providing 1:1 guidance to families
• Supporting children to achieve their potential
• Helping our service users and our staff truly feel the difference we make

Every day is varied, rewarding, and full of opportunities to grow.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £27, 674 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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