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Health Visiting
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
9 months (Fixed Term till 31/03/ 2025 (with possibility of extension))
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5)
Job ref
220-WHT-2122
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bingfield Primary care Centre
Town
Islington
Salary
£30,279 - £33,116 per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/05/2024 23:59

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Family Health Advisor

NHS AfC: Band 4

Covid-19 Vaccination 

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

Are you a Nursery Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to work within an integrated service in Islington, supporting families and their children aged between 0-5 years through the delivery of services in children centres, homes, clinics and green spaces. 

Bright Start Health Visiting are key partners delivering the early childhood offer and we have a vacancy for a Family Health Advisor (Nursery Nurse) with an NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/CACHE Level 3 Diploma or equivalent. 

You will be working as a member of the health visiting team and alongside both health and early years staff. Your role is to support the health visitor mandated contacts with a particular focus on the 1-4 year old cohort, delivering agreed interventions and supporting engagement in the wealth of activities on offer including family kitchen, stay and plays, forest school and much more. 

We are also delivering the Start for life programme where you will be part of an exciting workforce that will be offering  structured programmes e.g. Wellcomm tool to support children  during the Health Reviews.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme in a Bright Start Locality carrying out evidence-based child and family health assessments and develop child/family health plans in partnership with families and other key partners.

You would be expected to demonstrate good communication skills with colleagues and partners as well as families and children. Good computer skills are essential for the role, and you will be expected to work with the local electronic patient record system.

There are lots of opportunities to participate in activities and training such as Forest School; Family Kitchen; antenatal Solihull programme as well as facilitating groups such as the well-established new parents group and starting solid food group. All of this work is managed within a framework which explains the training and supervision on offer starting with the induction programme and a six month probation which applies to all staff at Whittington.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

 

 

Person specification

Education and Expereince

Essential criteria
  • CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Child Care or equivalent and Education & 4 GCSEs, including English and maths ( A –C). See person specification

Knowledge, Skills and Ability

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
  • Willingness to support management of change
  • High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs.
  • Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance.
  • Ability to apply research to practice.
  • Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
  • Ability to set personal objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
  • Ability to delegate work appropriately and safely.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
  • Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
  • Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
  • Knowledge of infection control standards.

Expereince of working with fam

Essential criteria
  • Working in a nursery/community setting with children and families.

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Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Grace Okoro
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07425403712
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