Health Visitor Ewell

Join Our Team as a Band 6 Health Visitor. Are you ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and families? We are looking for compassionate and dedicated Health Visitors to join our Health Visiting Team in Surrey. Here, you will not only find a rewarding role but also a community that values and supports you every step of the way.

Package benefits include:

• Competitive Pay & Pension: Enjoy a Band 6 Agenda for Change salary and NHS pension benefits.
• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and premium offers at national supermarkets, well-known retailers, and indulgent treats like Virgin Experience Days through our Reward Gateway.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, offering access to counselors, career coaching, legal advice, and more.
• Flexible Pay Options: Use Wagestream to track your earnings and access your wages as you need them, without worrying about high-interest loans or overdrafts.
• Learning & Development: Advance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, who collaborate with universities and Health Education England. Access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities to help you grow.
• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas to improve services, and stay informed through regular updates from our leadership team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area.
• Delivering the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
• To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children on a child protection plan within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide families and children on a child protection plan with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
• To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
• To contribute to multi-agency assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
• To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
• Understanding the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding. Using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.

Ideal Candidate:

Essential:

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification in Health Visiting (SCPHN HV).
• Current NMC registration on third part of the register.
• Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams.
• Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families.
• Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners.
• Working knowledge of the tools and programmes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
• Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems.

Desirable:

• Qualification in leadership and innovative practice.
• Experience in line management and developing teams.
• Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners.
• Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.

Other requirements:

• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.

About the Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential:

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification in Health Visiting (SCPHN HV).
• Current NMC registration on third part of the register.
• Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams.
• Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families.
• Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners.
• Working knowledge of the tools and programs used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
• Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems.

Additional Information:

• 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. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer Contact: Recruitment Team, HCRG Care Group, ask.hr@hcrgcaregroup.com