Job Details:
Job Title: Band 6 Health Visitor
Hourly Rate: £29 to £31 per hour
Working hours: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours a week (Will Consider 3 days a week)
Contract Type: Locum
Contract Duration: 3 months minimum
Job Summary
- Responsible for the delivery of Universal Health services to designated areas, children's centres and schools in Haringey.
- Reporting to the Team Leader you will support the development of the service and work with colleagues to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective Universal Health Provision.
- To manage a caseload of families/designated schools as the named health professional, with responsibility fr the planning and delivery of the Child Health Promotion Programme to the caseload.
- To be responsible for identifying need within a family, school, or community. To use child, young person and family centred public health approaches address health inequalities. Including the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health in the community and school, and the implementation and evaluation of individualised programmes of care.
- To support the implementation of service development, standard setting, clinical audit and benchmarking, to deliver needs-led evidence based care that supports the local and national priorities and policies.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated GP practices in an area. To develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements with GP services that support healthy outcomes for children, young people and their families, and facilitate partnership working across Primary Care and other partner organisations.
- To be the principal point of contact for allocated Children's Centres and schools in an area. To develop and deliver co-operative working arrangements with Children's Centres an schools that support healthy outcomes for children, young people and their families, and facilitate partnership working across Children's Centres, schools and other partner organisations.
- To work with local statutory, private and voluntary providers, and users to develop and promote practice that is accessible and responsible to all section of the local community, ensuring that services are targeted to the most vulnerable groups and individuals to support social inclusion.
Essential Candidate Criteria:
- Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme The ability to identify, respond to and evaluate family health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Knowledge of infection control standards.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
Desirable:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Management experience in a health service setting.
Blackstone Benefits:
✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
✅Complete onboarding support
✅Informed tailored career advice
✅Personalised job alerts
✅Unlimited referral bonus
✅Prompt payroll
For further information on this role, please contact Emma Ansett at Blackstone Recruitment on the details provided or APPLY now