Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has created an exciting opportunity for health visitors to undertake a specialist health visitor role within our health visiting teams providing, specialist knowledge, supervision, advice and support to team members working with communities, families and individuals with additional needs and vulnerabilities. These roles will hold a caseload with capacity to deliver the expert specialist role.

The role will strengthen safeguarding knowledge and skills within the team, focussing on assessment, analysis of need, care planning and service delivery which improve public health outcomes for children and families and reduce risk of future health inequalities.

We are looking for Specialist Health Visitors to support team members by providing safeguarding supervision as a key function of the role and expert support with complex report writing, inter-agency referrals and attendance at statutory and multi-agency meetings.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a qualified health visitor who wish to develop their clinical skills while maintaining a caseload. We need individuals with inspirational and motivational behaviours, highly skilled in communication, with a strong approach to teamwork. This individual will be someone who can lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme while using their expertise to ensure better outcomes for our more vulnerable families. Working as a team player, your role will require excellent assessment and analysis skills and effective partnership working.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Midwife
• BSc Hons Public Health Specialist Practitioner (Health Visiting) or equivalent
• Education to MSc level or 3 years experience post SCPHN BSc qualification
• NMC Registered Part 3
• Full UK Driving Licence (and access to a car)

Desirable

• Child Branch Registration or similar qualification
• Mentorship Module
• Evidence of ongoing learning and professional development

Experience

Essential

• 3 years experience of working as a SCPHN (HV) with vulnerable children and families leading and managing care for safeguarding and complex cases using risk assessment and analysis to plan care
• Experience of providing supervision to team members
• Experience of leading and managing skill mix staff
• Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies
• Experience of working with individuals in a health promotion role
• Experience of managing own time and diary
• Experience of supervising and mentoring students

Desirable

• Child Branch Registration or experience of
• working with children
• Previous experience of working in a community setting

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Evidence of recent additional training to support expert role (or willingness to undertake): In-Trac training Level 4 Safeguarding module relevant iHV training multi-agency training i.e. ICON, Safe Sleep, safeguarding Court Report Writing Trauma Informed approach training Safeguarding Supervision
• Expert knowledge of safeguarding policy and procedures and assessment and analysis of vulnerable families
• Awareness of the process of research, understanding of evidence-based practice to promote good practice
• Knowledge and understanding of current government policies relating to health care.
• Knowledge and understanding of Public Health and Health Promotion
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the impact of vulnerability and safeguarding on public health outcomes
• Understanding of the role of clinical governance, CQC and clinical supervision maintaining/improving quality within the services provided
• Understanding of inequality and its impact on health
• Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme including breastfeeding, healthy eating, smoking cessation, behaviour management, sleep and positive parenting.
• Knowledge and understanding of Child Development
• Evidence of recent additional training to support expert role (or willingness to undertake): In-Trac training Level 4 Safeguarding module relevant iHV training multi-agency training i.e. ICON, Safe Sleep, safeguarding Court Report Writing Trauma Informed approach training Safeguarding Supervision
• Expert knowledge of safeguarding policy and procedures and assessment and analysis of vulnerable families
• Awareness of the process of research, understanding of evidence-based practice to promote good practice
• Knowledge and understanding of current government policies relating to health care.
• Knowledge and understanding of Public Health and Health Promotion
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the impact of vulnerability and safeguarding on public health outcomes
• Understanding of the role of clinical governance, CQC and clinical supervision maintaining/improving quality within the services provided
• Understanding of inequality and its impact on health
• Knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme including breastfeeding, healthy eating, smoking cessation, behaviour management, sleep and positive parenting.
• Knowledge and understanding of Child Development
• Able to identify vulnerability, safeguarding and child protection issues using knowledge of child protection procedures, liaising appropriately with partner agencies
• Able to supervise support and mentor individual staff and to share learning
• Able to develop staff to improve level of competence in working with vulnerable families
• Able to work in partnership with parents
• Able to undertake health needs assessment in individuals, families and the community
• Able to facilitate groups effectively in a variety of settings
• Able to prioritise and manage time effectively
• Able to demonstrate management skills and team leadership
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to demonstrate decision making skills and application
• Ability to facilitate and manage change
• Demonstrable negotiation skills
• Ability to use data to support caseload management

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South Efford House

Milford Road, Everton

Lymington

Hampshire

SO41 0JD

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348-SS-3066