Health Visitor

Health Visitor vacancy in Croydon Health Services - Salary £38,762 - £45,765 incl HCAS per annum pro rata.

Plus an additional recruitment and retention premia of £1.500, paid in two instalments during the first year.

Croydon Health Services is seeking qualified Health Visitors and student Health Visitors who are keen to develop their leadership skills and scope of influence, to shape the future of Public Health Nursing in Croydon.

Croydon Health Services is seeking practitioners who are very keen to work and learn as a team, who are warm and engaging with a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service through our vibrant learning and development team.

We are working with 2 universities to support the development of Band 5 nurses to complete Public Health modules, which will support those wishing to go on, to complete the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification.

We offer all Health Visitors corporate membership of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) which offers a wealth of professional training programmes and resources to support excellent practice.

Context

This role is part of a skill mix team delivering the Healthy Child Programme and other additional support to children 0- 5 years old and their families. Embedding an integrated approach towards Health Visiting for families across Croydon Health Services.

To lead and deliver the Healthy Child Programme to a defined caseload of families and children by:

• To manage a designated case load of families; The Health Visitor will be the named health professional, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of the HCP to report to and be line managed by a Team Leaders or Clinical Service Lead (CSL)
• To plan own workload effectively to meet client needs, clinical activity targets and KPIs.
• Working in partnership with the team members, infant feeding colleagues, service users, Croydon Health Service (CHS) staff and all stake holders to promote the health and wellbeing of Children, Young People age 0-19 years, and their families
• To work in partnership with the Clinical Service Lead (CSL), Practice Educator and multidisciplinary teams in the development of innovative clinical practice in line with the Healthy Child Programme
• To assess client needs, using Family Strengths and Needs tool, Early Help Assessments and Risk Assessment tools as appropriate and plan, implement and evaluate evidenced based care given and support families where there is a chronic illness or disability and to advise on care in cooperation with other agencies
• To liaise effectively with colleagues within Croydon Health Services and partner organisations to ensure care for children and families is timely, well-coordinated and effectiv

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon.

These include:

• Croydon University Hospital
• Purley Hospital
• The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath
• Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodside
• A minor injuries unit in New Addington

The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 3,500 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our Vision:
“Excellent integrated care for you and your family, when and where you need it”

Our 5 key ‘Here for you’ promises to the people of Croydon are:

• You feel cared for by helpful and welcoming staff
• You feel in safe hands with highly professional staff
• You feel confident in your treatment from skilled teams of compassionate clinicians
• You feel we value your time with convenient appointments, minimal waiting and care closer to home
• You feel it’s getting better all the time as we continue to improve our services

We are one of 17 Trusts in the country who have been accepted as national pioneers on staff engagement and empowerment, through the adoption of "Listening into Action" as a new way of working. The approach we are taking to “Listening into Action” is new and different.

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role