# Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health visitor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-community-public-health-nurse-scphn-health-visitor/144b6af9-130f-4751-88b2-acead344bf81 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-community-public-health-nurse-scphn-health-visitor/144b6af9-130f-4751-88b2-acead344bf81.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** Dependant on experience - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (More than 1 position is available. Full time and part time. Working hours are Monday - Friday 9am-5pm) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T07:53:09.860Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackburn/East_Lancashire_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Specialist_Community_Public_Health_Nurse_Health_visitor/Specialist_Community_Public_Health_Nurse_Health_visitor-v8212281 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8212281?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elht.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A Specialist Community Public Health Nurse in Health Visiting to provide strong clinical care and leadership within an integrated skill mixed team as part of the 0-19 Universal Health Service in Blackburn with Darwen. To lead on the delivery of the Health Child Programme 0-5 years and defined local requirements based on the provider contract. To provide family centred, evidence based public health service that aims to proactively improve health outcomes for a defined caseload, population or community, reducing the risks and impact of health inequalities by working in partnership with families, communities and other professionals. This will be achieved through delivery of the model of health visiting at a community, universal, targeted and specialist level. Safeguarding is embedded within the model considering safe and effective management of risk for children, young people and families. More than 1 position is available. Full time and part time. Working hours are Monday - Friday 9am-5pm ### Main duties of the job See job description attached in document section - Presents a positive image of the service when meeting service users and partners - Demonstrates advanced communication skills in order to: i) Deal with and diffuse complex and volatile situations. ii) Participate in the decision making process of complex issues which may be emotive with differing professional opinions in a multi-agency arena - Presents complex issues in a professional manner either verbally or in a written format, e.g. case conferences, reports and court statements where highly emotive and contentious situations may arise ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities see attached job description and specification in document section . - Works as the named Health Visitor for a defined caseload of antenatal mothers, children and families ensuring full responsibility for their case management based on local service contractual requirements - Plans, delivers and evaluates an innovative service using evidence based knowledge e.g. ELHT policies, SOPs, guidelines and standards and works effectively with key agencies who work with children and families - Provides a holistic assessment of the needs of families taking into account physical, psychological, social and environmental factors and develops action plans to meet those needs - Delivers targeted intensive interventions to the most vulnerable families building therapeutic relationships and addressing difficult issues within families ### 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 ### Essential **Essential** - Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN-Health Visitor) - Evidence of Continued professional Development - Experience of multi-agency and partnership working Experience of delivering health promotion or public health programmes - Good understanding of the healthy child programme 0-5 Healthy Child Programme - Child and adult safeguarding knowledge/experience - IT Skills - Access to a vehicle for work - Able to comply with the travel requirements of the posts **Desirable** - Experience of managing or leading staff - Degree level qualification V100/V300 prescribing ## Documents - [privacy notice (pdf, 305.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1761) - [benefits of working at elht (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2405) - [additional candidate information 2024 (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2494) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 624.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10588747) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.