Lead Health Visitor – Strengthening Families (Complex Needs)

Specialist Health Visitor Strengthening Families Bexley 0 to 19 Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Inc of HCAS per annum pro rata Full time - 37.5 hours per week

The Band 7 Strengthening Families posts are roles developed to provide personalised care for families who need it most. This is an exciting opportunity for Health Visitors who wish to build their leadership and management skills whilst delivering evidence-based care to families on specialist and targeted care pathways. The post holder will provide direct specialist clinical service for children and families with complex and additional needs across Bexley and Greenwich and will work within skill mix teams of Community Nursery Nurses, Health Visitor Development Nurses and B6 Health Visitors.

The main role for the Specialist Strengthening Families Health Visitor is to be the delegated named HV for children requiring targeted and specialist support as well as contributing to the public health agenda. This is achieved through conducting thorough, individualised health needs assessments, planning programmes of care tailored to families' needs, and effective liaison with colleagues within Bromley Healthcare and with partner agencies.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the health visiting team to deliver the Healthy Child Programme by:
• Carrying out ongoing health needs assessments for all children and families within the community, using professional judgment to allocate each family to the correct level of health visiting care, Universal, Targeted and Specialist pathways.
• The role will hold a caseload of targeted and specialist families and lead in a high-impact area.
• Overseeing the delivery of Universal service key touchpoints by skill mix team members.
• Delivering evidence-based personalised packages of care to families who need it most.
• Using Outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of care delivered, planning and implementing revised packages of care, where required, and closing or escalating packages of care as required for each child.
• Participating and where appropriate, leading on the Early Help process for children, ensuring timely assessment and that coordinated care is delivered to address the needs of the child and family.
• To provide health visiting support and advice within the clinic setting, according to the service model and guidelines.
• To liaise effectively with colleagues within Bromley Healthcare and partner organisations.
• Provide specialist knowledge, supervision, advice, and leadership to team members.

About us

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point. Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

This is an exciting time to join the Triborough Public Health Nursing service during a period of reimagining how we deliver Health Visiting. The aim of the changes is to create career pathways, to produce a sustainable and resilient workforce, and crucially to protect and promote the uniqueness of the Health Visitor role. All staff members have corporate iHV membership and learning and professional development are prioritised within the services. In addition to the opportunity to develop personally and professionally within the team, the successful candidate will have the chance to use their creative skills in developing and delivering training and education and will be supported through an annual appraisal, personal development planning, and access to ongoing training.

For full details of the role, please refer to the job description and person specification. The job description reflects the immediate requirements and objectives of the post. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, as directed by the line manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: BSc or PGDip SCPHN Health Visiting, Mentorship, Educated to Masters Level or equivalent or equivalent experience.
• Desirable: Leadership qualification.

Professional Registration

• Essential: Current NMC Registration RGN/RN. Registered Health Visitor/ Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN).
• Desirable: Paediatric Nurse.

Training

• Essential: Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, Trained to deliver safeguarding supervision, Evidence of recent additional training to support expert role (or willingness to undertake): Management training; Level 4 Safeguarding module; relevant iHV training including leadership module; multiagency training i.e. ICON, Safe Sleep, safeguarding; Trauma Informed approach training; Safeguarding Supervision.
• Desirable: Trained to deliver safeguarding supervision.

Specific Skills

• Essential: Awareness of the process of research, understanding of evidence-based practice to promote good practice, Ability to use data to support caseload management, Able to identify vulnerability, safeguarding and child protection issues using knowledge of child protection procedures, liaising appropriately with partner agencies, Able to demonstrate management skills and team leadership, Expert knowledge of safeguarding policy and procedures and assessment and analysis of vulnerable families, Knowledge and understanding of current government policies relating to health care, Knowledge and understanding of Public Health and Health Promotion, Able to undertake health needs assessment in individuals, families and the community, Understanding of the role of clinical governance, CQC and clinical supervision maintaining/improving quality within the services provided, Understanding of inequality and its impact on health, Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme including breastfeeding, healthy eating, smoking cessation, behaviour management, sleep and positive parenting, Knowledge and understanding of Child Development, Full UK Driving Licence (and access to a car for work purposes).
• Desirable: N/A.

Information Technology

• Essential: IT/Communication/word processing skills and report writing.
• Desirable: Experience of using EMIS.

Experience

• Essential: Experience of working as a SCPHN (HV) with vulnerable children and families leading and managing care for safeguarding and complex cases using risk assessment and analysis to plan care, Experience of leading and managing skill mix staff, Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies, Experience of supervising and mentoring students, Experience of integrated/joint working to deliver the Healthy Child Programme in complex circumstances, Significant experience of recognising safeguarding risks and working with multi agency partners to implement child protection plans, Significant community experience working as a Health Visitor with families with complex needs.
• Desirable: Child Branch Registration or experience of working with children, Previous experience of working in a community setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.