The Families Health and Wellbeing 0-19 team deliver the Healthy Child programme within the Lichfield district. You will be working with a skill mixed of colleagues within the Universal team, to meet the health needs of children and families within our locality. You will work predominantly with the 0-5 age range, in a variety of community settings to include health centres, children's centres and family homes. There will be further opportunities to complete the transfer of fields course in the future, to allow you to work across the 0-19 age range.

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role.
• Work within their scope of practice.
• Demonstrate at all times the Values of Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust.
• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people's care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Registered Nurse/Midwife
• BSc Hons Public Health Specialist Practitioner (Health Visiting)
• NMC Registered
• Nurse Prescriber
• Full UK Driving Licence

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse- Health Visitor

Desirable

• Mentor/ Educational qualification
• Experience of running continence and enuresis clinics following NICE guidance

Work Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience to the role including the ability to work as an autonomous practitioner .
• Ability to manage time and caseload effectively.
• Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with a variety of issues including complex child protection issues Working in multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

• Significant experience in supporting children, young people, families and carers in promoting health and well being
• Experience of negotiation and conflict management in clinical situations.

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Chads Health Centre

Dimbles Lane

Lichfield

WS13 7HT

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301-VA-24-6776881