Health Visitor in Shiremoor

North Tyneside Council is seeking to recruit qualified Health Visitors (SCPHN) to work within the Childrens Public Health Service (CPHS). Would you like to be part of an innovative skill mix team of health visitors, school nurses, public health staff nurses and child development practitioners? This is your chance to work with an outstanding group of safeguarding and health professionals. The service has close working relationships with the early help service, multiagency safeguarding hub (MASH), education, housing, primary care, midwifery services and sport and leisure which ensures good outcomes for families and provides positive working relationships for colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The Signs of Safety model is embedded throughout the service and robust safeguarding supervision is provided to colleagues by Safeguarding Nurse Advisors. North Tyneside Childrens Social Care was graded outstanding by Ofsted in 2024. Colleagues are provided with support and supervision from the Nurse Manager throughout their probationary period and beyond and have access to an identified preceptor. The post holder will be responsible to lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme within the context of integrated prevention and early help locality teams. They will ensure universal contact is offered for the five nationally mandated reviews. Additional support and targeted interventions will be offered to those families where additional need is identified. CPHS colleagues use ParentLine, a confidential texting service as additional support for the families in North Tyneside. The service was reaccredited in March 2025 with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Gold Award and is supported by a Specialist Infant Feeding Team.

Essential requirements of the post:

• 1st level NMC registration / Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) qualification
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

The CPHS service offers opportunity for career progression and provides an atmosphere of continuous professional development with supervision and assessment of pre and post registration students.

About us

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and adults at risk of harm. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and to familiarise themselves with all relevant policies, procedures and guidance. Within North Tyneside, safeguarding is everybody's business.

If you feel a reasonable adjustment will provide additional support in both the recruitment process and within the workplace, please indicate this to the hiring manager on your application. Declaring a reasonable adjustment will not subject you to any form of discrimination when determining which applicants are successful for interview and employment with us.

Job responsibilities

• Direct casework with families
• Develops an excellent understanding of the child's lived experience, conveying their views and feelings through high quality practice skills in assessment, planning, intervention and review.
• Gathers, analyses and reviews complex and/or contradictory information quickly and effectively, using it to reach informed professional decisions.
• Ensures the values and ethics of the profession in practice, adhering to NMC standards.
• Uses evidence-based practice to improve the child's welfare and safety, leading to improved outcomes, modelling the integration of research and current professional knowledge into daily practice.
• Models effective engagement and partnership working with children and young people, parents/carers and networks in challenging situations.
• Supports others to develop and maintain effective engagement, including in situations of hostility and risk.
• Supports and encourages professional decision making in others, identifying when more expert advice is needed.
• Maintains all records accurately and contemporaneously on SystmOne.
• Takes personal and professional responsibility for the quality of their own practice and that of supervisees.

Supervision and support

• Provides reflective supervision and appraisal to other CPHS practitioners.
• Supports less experienced colleagues and supervisees to develop the knowledge and skills required to meet practice quality standards.
• Shares knowledge and skills through mentoring, coaching and supervision and models positive and constructive engagement in the learning organisation.

Promoting learning

• Takes part in and facilitates team meetings, team-based action learning and development days, contributing to a positive and supportive team culture.
• Promotes, articulates and supports a positive public health culture within the organisation and through external collaboration with colleagues.
• Accesses and utilises professional evidence-based practice from validated sources as the basis for reflective practice and supervision.
• Models a commitment to continuous professional development.
• Models the development and use of evidence-based practice skills and validated assessment tools.

Teamwork

• Develops and sustains excellent partnership working with other professionals involved with children and families, voluntary and community groups.
• Acts as a representative of the service with a high degree of professionalism at all times, modelling and promoting confident and critical application of professional ethics.
• Advocates and uses influencing skills to promote social justice, inclusion and equality.
• Complies with the full range of the Councils employment relations policies.
• Fulfils all the requirements of registration with the NMC.
• Undertakes any other duties required of the role and commensurate to the grade for the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• A good understanding of the main risks to a child's welfare, development and safety, along with a developing knowledge about how to reduce those risks.
• An applied understanding of issues of equality, diversity and cultural capability.

Experience

• 3 years experience as a SCPHN (HV) or demonstrates the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice as set out in the CPHS NTC Advanced Practice Framework.
• Ability to engage positively with children, young people and families gaining their trust and confidence.
• Ability to communicate effectively and to write coherent reports.
• Ability to work together, in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
• Ability to facilitate multi-disciplinary groups, including professionals meetings and core groups.
• Ability to represent the Service and Council effectively in a range of multi-professional settings, including the Family Courts, Child Protection Conferences and Child in Care Reviews.
• Ability to demonstrate calmness and resilience under pressure and to manage the stress of working with children subject to neglect and abuse.
• Collect and interpret health data and develop and initiate strategies to promote and improve individual and community health and evaluate the outcomes.
• Knowledgeable about and adheres to Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and to national and local policies.
• Use of SystmOne.

Qualifications

• Registered Health Visitor / Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner.
• First level degree or equivalent.
• 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.