If you are passionate about providing a high standard of care, we would like to hear from you. North Yorkshire 0-19 Service have an exciting opportunity for you to join our 0-6 Team supporting with the delivery of the virtual element of our service based in a team dedicated to delivering virtual contacts.

The Universal offer of the Healthy Child Programme in North Yorkshire is mainly delivered using a virtual platform which supports us to target in-person support. This role is key to delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, providing an opportunity for you to develop skills, new ways of working and innovation for delivery of the universal Healthy Child Programme.

The post holder will be pro-active in delivering the national and Public Health agendas in response to identified health and social need, working in partnership with other agencies and meet agreed standards, objectives and statutory requirements.

Please note this post requires the successful candidate to work from base at certain times and may require in-person contact with children, young people and families for service delivery along with virtual delivery of care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work with parents, carers, children and partner agencies to promote the physical, emotional and social development of children.

Contributing to the delivery of the Healthy Child programme through delivery of mandated contacts and targeted interventions as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN), working in conjunction with a team to co-ordinate, plan, implement and evaluate a programme of care for children, young people and families including infant feeding support, developing and planning of intervention to support children and families.

Supporting the completion of comprehensive health needs assessment of clients, families and community and facilitate the mobilisation of appropriate resources to meet identified needs, linking with locality based Health Visitor and skill mix team where in-person support is required.

The post holder will ensure inter-agency/ professional partnership working between services, statutory and voluntary organisations to facilitate integrated approaches in meeting the needs of children.

Excellent communication skills and a passion for public health are essential, alongside good organisational skills, flexibility to meet the needs of the service and ability to travel independently to meet service delivery as required.

This role will be predominantly delivering and supporting delivery of virtual contacts which can be done at home or from an office base.

About us

HDFT are seeking to recruit Health Visitors to be part of the innovative 0-6 Service in North Yorkshire. We are the largest provider of children's public health nursing services in the North of England providing services that stretch from North Yorkshire up to Gateshead and Sunderland. We are dedicated to working towards improved public health outcomes for children and families in the footprint, delivering high quality universal and targeted health visiting and school health services to meet the key improvement priorities for the population.

The 0-6 commissioned service within North Yorkshire has a blended approach to the provided contacts, with patients seen within their own homes, nursery settings and virtually using MS Bookings software. The role of the Health Visitor has a large proportion of virtual working, providing universal contacts across the whole of the North Yorkshire footprint, whilst also having an element of in-person working within localities across North Yorkshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Archer on elizabeth.archer2@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level registered nurse/midwife
• Specialist practitioner.(Hons, B. Sc. Hons, Health Visiting/ Public Health Nursing or equivalent)
• Minimum 2 years Post Registration experience as a qualified nurse.
• Prioritisation of complex workload
• Identification of Level of Intervention

Desirable

• Evidence of continuous ongoing professional development.
• Recognised teaching qualification.
• Evidence of participating on a service development change.
• Minimum 1 year post SCPHN qualification.
• Working knowledge of the 0-19 North Yorkshire contract.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 2 years Post Registration experience

Desirable

• Evidence of participating on a service development change.

Employer details

Employer name

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Various sites

Harrogate

HG3 2XT

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