Health Visitor Newport Borough

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Newport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply, so please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

We are seeking to employ enthusiastic Health Visitors to join our Newport Health Visiting Team. You will be working within a team of Health Visitors and skill mix staff delivering an Early Years Health visiting programme to families living within the City of Newport.

The successful candidate will have the relevant qualification, professionalism, and clinical skills necessary to work on their own initiative as well as working effectively in partnership with parents/carers and other services such as Early Years Services, Primary Care, Children Services, and School Nursing. Applications from students due to qualify are also welcomed.

Main Duties of the Job

Health Visitors contribute to the development of new projects and policies within the health visiting service and are involved in the research, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practice. The post holder will be responsible for providing universal, enhanced, and intensive Health Visiting services to children and families from all cultural diversities on their caseload. Health Visitors work as a team across locally defined areas and support the service across Gwent, to provide a safe service for all preschool children and their families.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for Our Organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and have an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Confident and have the ability to motivate others
• Team player and change agent
• Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner

Desirable Criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh

Essential Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Leadership skills
• Competent in IT skills, completing data and writing emails
• Proven skills in motivating and influencing others

Desirable Skills

• Change management skills
• MECC

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Delivery of HCWP
• Working with a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with safeguarding and vulnerable families

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding of HCWP

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• SCPHN Qualification

Desirable Criteria

• Working towards SCPHN Qualification