Student Health Visitor (NHS AfC: Band 5) - Health Visiting - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Here at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust we’re committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities whilst employing people to our organisation who meet our Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion.

With the opening of our new hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, it’s the coming together of expertise from every corner of our organisation and a show of our commitment to provide better healthcare and create more jobs.

We at the Trust actively encourage Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled applicants, as well as members of the armed forces community and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is an innovative and caring organisation in the heart of the Black Country. The Health Visiting service forms part of the organisation and has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC.

A great opportunity has arisen to join our organisation as a Student Specialist Community Public Health Nurse. We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and thoughtful practitioners who are passionate about making a difference to children and families. You will be a caring professional with an interest in public health and a genuine desire to promote the needs of the child and ultimately provide leadership within community health. You will be motivated to learn and develop your skills and be committed to providing safe, quality and compassionate care.

The successful candidate will be supported to undertake the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) leading to a qualification and NMC registration as a SCPHN Health Visitor.

Main duties of the job:

• Applications are invited from nurses and midwives with the appropriate entry requirements and evidence of recent continued professional development.
• Current NMC registration and a full driving licence are essential.
• If you feel you have the right qualities and the role excites you, we’d love to hear from you.
• There will be two parts to the recruitment process: a numeracy and literacy test and a focus group where you will have the opportunity to meet other candidates and debate a health related topic. This will be followed by a face to face interview.

Health Visiting practice involves planned activities aimed at improving physical, mental, emotional and the social health and wellbeing of the population, consisting of preventing disease and reducing inequalities in health.

Health Visiting’s overall purpose is to improve health and social wellbeing through identifying health needs, raising awareness and influencing the broader context that affects health and social wellbeing by enabling and empowering people to improve their own health.

The Health Visiting contribution to public health takes into account the differing dynamics and needs of individuals, families and groups, and the community as a whole.

Health Visiting practice focuses on 6 spheres:

• Autonomous specialist community public health nursing practice
• Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice
• Promoting human rights and addressing health inequalities: assessment, surveillance and intervention
• Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course
• Advancing public health services and promoting healthy places, environments and cultures
• Leading and collaborating: from investment to action and dissemination

Health Visitors manage their own caseload within a corporate team and will see families at home and also in clinic settings. They work collaboratively with partner agencies including Sandwell Children’s Trust, GP’s, local Family Hubs, nursery and education settings to deliver a range of support services to families across the borough.

Successful candidates will undertake the Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) which is a 50% University and 50% practice course. The course will be undertaken at the University of Wolverhampton with practice being undertaken across the Sandwell Borough.

Person specification:

• First Level Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Current NMC Registration
• Portfolio evidence of continual professional & academic development
• Appropriate entry level criteria for the university education programme, and at least a degree studied at level 6.
• Evidence of study at Level 6
• Evidence of the conditional offer from the university

Experience:

• Evidence of working within a community nursing/public health setting
• Working independently
• Problem solving
• Demonstrates an awareness of working in the Community
• Experience within a HV team
• Evidence of collaborative working.
• Evidence of working within a multi professional arena.
• Audit/evaluation/research
• Health promotion

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.