Job overview

0-19 Practitioner- Health visitor/School Nurse -Strengthening Families

Are you passionate about making a difference and improving outcomes for children and their families?

We are looking for a highly motivated Health Visitor or School Nurse with excellent team working and communication skills to join the Families' Health and Wellbeing 0-19 Service in the role of Strengthening Families Practitioner in our Cannock and Rugeley 0-19 team. This vacancy is for 22.5 hours each week and is based at Norton Canes Health Centre.

The Families' Health and Wellbeing Service (0-19) in Staffordshire offers an integrated, flexible and family focused service providing high quality, compassionate, personalised support and care to Children, Young People and Families across Staffordshire.

As a Strengthening Families Practitioner, you will have focus in the partnership plus agenda, working closely with partner agencies across health, social care and the local authority to support families with higher levels of need and to enable each child to reach their developmental and educational potential.

We are committed to supporting professional and personal development of our staff and have excellent training opportunities that align with our integrated 0-19 service.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the
• Work within their scope of practice
• Demonstrate at all times the Values of Midlands Partnership Foundation
• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge.
• Have a focus in the partnership plus agenda, as well as contributing to the public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community, family hubs and schools/educational establishments. 
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people's care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved

Working for our organisation

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccination every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.