Job summary
Employer heading
Health Visitor Assistant -Universal Services
Band 3
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.
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Job overview
Health Visitor Assistant - Band 3
Contract : Permanent. Full-Time 37.5 hours per week
We are seeking to employ a full time Health Visitor Assistant to join our team at Tynemouth Road Health Centre.
We are looking for person with a flexible approach to team working, with the ability to use their own initiative and have enthusiasm for work with children, young people and parents.
Main duties of the job
Working in partnership with a supportive integrated team, you will have the opportunity to develop skills in health promotion. All new staff undergo a thorough induction programme with regular supervision and training provided. IT skills are essential requirements for this role.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working in our Trust.
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
The job primarily involves data entry and analysis, clerical and administrative duties, booking appointments for the health visiting teams. It also includes assisting Health Visitors in running child health clinics.
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Experience working in the community and/or with children and families
skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
- • Organisational skills
- • Ability to prioritise workload and seek advice when needed
- • Willingness to support management of change.
- • Ability to manage time, priorities and stressful situations
- • Ability to work as part of a team.
- • Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
- • IT skills and the ability to record care accurately and contemporaneously
- • Knowledge of infection control standards.
- • Experience of working in a health care setting
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team as well the ability to work without direct supervision and within time constraints
- • Shows empathy and sensitivity to the needs of patients carers and families
- • Committed to improving services
- Committed to hitting targets.
- • Treats other as would like to be treated. Committed to 6 C’s.
- • Good Interpersonal Skills.
- • Able to work individually and as part of a team.
- • Flexible approach to meeting service & client needs.
- • Time management skills and ability to prioritise.
- • Leadership qualities.
- • Self-motivated and keen to develop self and team Willing
Other
Essential criteria
- IT literacy and information technology
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Comfort Ofosuhene-Ofei
- Job title
- Locality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827271351
- Additional information
For informal enquiries please contact Comfort Ofosuhene-Ofei Locality Manager on
Email:[email protected]
Mobile Number:07827271351
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