*INTERNAL MPFT APPS ONLY* 0-19 FHWS Health Visitor

Job overview

**INTERNAL MPFT APPLICATIONS ONLY**

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

The Families Health and Wellbeing 0-19 team deliver the Healthy Child programme across Staffordshire.

We are looking to recruit a Health Visitor to our Cannock and Rugeley 0-19 team. This is a permanent 0.5 WTE (18.75 hours) vacancy.

You will be working with a skill mix of colleagues within the Universal team, to meet the health needs of children and families within our locality. You will work predominantly with the 0-5 age range, in a variety of community settings to include health centres, children's centres and family homes. There will be further opportunities to complete the transfer of fields course in the future, to allow you to work across the 0-19 age range.

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role.
• Work within their scope of practice.
• Demonstrate at all times the Values of Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust.
• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people’s care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Registered Nurse/Midwife
• BSc Hons Public Health Specialist Practitioner (Health Visiting)
• NMC Registered
• Nurse Prescriber
• Full UK Driving Licence

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service  to check for any previous criminal convictions