Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse - Health Visitor

We have exciting opportunities for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses to join our Health Visiting service working with children, families, and communities across Bristol & South Gloucestershire. Full time and part time hours considered.

Through your work with families, you will empower them to make decisions that positively impact on their health and wellbeing to improve child outcomes, strengthen our partnership working with other agencies and challenge the wider determinants of health and health inequalities including advocating for those families who find services difficult to access.

Our Health Visiting teams work with families in a variety of setting including the family's home, local children centres, and community venues, therefore you must be mobile and flexible to visit several locations across a wide geographical area, organised and able to prioritise and manage your time.

In return, we offer a 6-month preceptorship programme for all new staff, regular clinical supervision, ongoing safeguarding support, and access to a wide variety of training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, you will provide expert advice, support, and interventions to families with children in the first years of life and help to empower parents to make decisions that positively affect their family's future health and wellbeing.

The main duties of the role include:

• The delivery of the full-service offer of mandated contacts underpinned by the Healthy Child Programme.
• To work collaboratively with other agencies to promote health and well-being and improve early identification of need and risks to improve child outcomes.
• To empower individuals, families, and communities to influence and access services and information and act as an advocate particularly for those families who find services difficult to access.
• Contribute to safeguarding of children in collaboration with partners using national and local policies to guide professional decision making and action.

The service in South Gloucestershire is led by Health Visitors and supported by a skill mix team.

About us

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. It's time to turn your dream into reality!

We are Sirona care & health - England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme - just a glimpse of the benefits we offer.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different - we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.

This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC registration
• SCPHN Qualification

Experience

• Experience of working in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for local families and communities.
• An understanding of the roles and contributions of members of the health visiting team at primary health care team and community level.
• Demonstrate experience of working in partnership with parents using a solution focused approach and appropriate assessment skills and tools that clearly demonstrate child and family strengths and support needs focused on the 6 high impact areas.
• An understanding of the implications of cultural difference on appropriate, accessible and sensitive service delivery.
• Group facilitation skills - either with parents or students or colleagues.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Pro rata, per annum