Student Health Visitor

Job overview

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a progressive and innovative organisation committed to delivering high‑quality health visiting services for children and families across the City of London and the London Borough of Hackney. Our 0–5 Service brings together health visitors and a skilled multidisciplinary team to deliver the Healthy Child Programme and improve public health outcomes.

We are pleased to offer sponsorship opportunities for highly motivated, qualified nurses wishing to undertake the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health and Specialist Community Nursing (Health Visiting). Applicants must be registered with the NMC as a nurse or midwife in any field of practice.

If you are passionate about public health, early intervention, and providing timely, effective support to families, Homerton Healthcare offers an excellent training environment. The programme is full‑time, fully funded, and delivered in partnership with City, University of London. It includes a 50% academic component and a 50% practical placement within community settings across Hackney and the City of London.

Applicants should hold a minimum 2:2 honours degree in a relevant subject. Experienced clinicians without a degree may be considered if they can demonstrate recent Level 7 study completed within the past five years.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will undertake the required study with the affiliated university achieving outcomes in both practice and university-based learning. They will be required to work within the community setting, facilitated by the Practice assessor/supervisor.

The post holder is expected to work towards gaining the standards of proficiency for entry to the NMC register/recordable for Specialist Community Practitioner.

To gain the knowledge and skills and competence required to exercise higher levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care focusing on four broad areas:

Clinical practice Community Engagement Clinical practice development Leadership in clinical practice

Click here for  further information about the  programme: https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-students/courses/postgraduate/public-health-and-specialist-community-nursing

Students are  expected to apply via the University website for the academic component.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.