This health visiting post with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust sits within the children, young people and families public health team, with a corporate caseload. The work centres on clinical leadership: supervising team caseloads, leading child protection work with multi-agency partners and running nurse-led clinics. Care may be given in homes, GP clinics, virtually or other settings, mostly for pre-school children. Applicants need first level registration with the NMC and the SCPHN (Health Visiting) qualification.
What the job involves
- Provide clinical leadership and professional direction to the children, young people and families public health team, ensuring safe, evidence-based interventions
- Deliver a public health service that improves the health of children and families in Walsall, working in partnership
- Work autonomously within a multi-agency arena to help children, mostly of pre-school age, reach their potential physically, emotionally and socially
- Assess, plan, delegate, maintain and review caseloads for each team member, matching needs to skill mix
- Take the lead for child protection work, contributing to plans, attending case conferences and core groups, and chairing or joining multi-agency meetings
- Lead on the health needs of specific groups, such as looked-after children and children with medical needs, including nurse-led clinics
- Organise and chair weekly team meetings and plan the team's workload in the clinical lead's absence
- Undertake team members' personal development reviews and clinical supervision, and agree development plans
- Refer children to specialist services such as CAMHS, giving detailed written and verbal information
- Liaise with teaching staff and school medical staff, acting as a link between school and home
- Provide antenatal support to individuals assessed as needing early intervention
- Monitor and report client and staff safety, accidents and incidents in line with risk management policies
Qualifications
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) qualification
- Evidence of professional development
Registration & licences
- First level registered nurse with NMC registration
Experience
- Demonstrable experience working with children and young people
- Demonstrable or relevant experience delivering health promotion and health education programmes
Skills & knowledge
- Making timely, effective and appropriate decisions
- Establishing and maintaining key relationships with colleagues and other disciplines, internally and externally
- Effective written and verbal communication with children, families and others
- Working effectively as part of a team
- Making sound clinical judgements and directing other team members to deliver high-quality care
- Leadership skills, facilitating others to develop service provision and understanding of professional responsibilities
Other
- Evidence of using evidence-based practice and appraising standards, providing clinical direction and support for staff
- Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy for children's services, including safeguarding
- Ability to apply the clinical governance framework to clinical practice
- In-depth knowledge of immunisation issues
- Keyboard skills and Microsoft packages such as Word, email, PowerPoint and Excel, plus ability to access information on the internet
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
