To support the Healthy Family Team in delivering universal health services to the 0-19 year population, alongside managing incoming and outgoing information via the telephone system and utilising SystmOne for recording information, whilst supporting a skill mix team.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic Public Health Practitioner, to join our Advice Line Team within the Integrated Healthy Families Team within the Ashfield Locality. This will be delivered in line with the National and Local guidelines and public health priorities.

You will work as part of the Healthy Family Team in delivering universal health services to the 0-19 year population and will take responsibility for the daily information flow via the telephone, including CHAT Health, PARENTLINE and RECAP within the Advice Line Team.

You will have responsibility for the smooth transition of information from families and others to the District Healthy Family Teams.

You will be responsible for delivery of Managerial supervision for Band 4 practitioners in Advice Line Team.

The team will be working proactively using a partnership approach to promote health and contribute to tackling health inequalities within the level of competencies required for the post.

A key aspect of the role is to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service as required.

This post requires an experienced practitioner with sound communication and supervision skills. We offer a friendly, supportive working environment with excellent development opportunities.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Job description
Job responsibilities

The role involves in supporting the Healthy Family Team to deliver the public health agenda for 0-19 children and families.

Please also see the detailed job description within application.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered RNC Nurse or Band 4 experienced or Senior Assistant Public Health Practitioner.
• Knowledge of public health and health improvement
• Other experience pertinent to 0-19 Family Health Team

Desirable

• Evidence of further professional development

Previous experience
Essential

• Experience of working directly with families and young people
• Knowledge of the safeguarding children's agenda
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of dealing with various customer care situations.

Desirable

• Experience of dealing with challenging telephone calls with families, agencies and colleagues.
• Experience of supporting individual practitioners or colleagues in a professional capacity.
• Experience of delivering supervision.

Knowledge, Skills, Aptitude
Essential

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current children & family health agenda
• Experience of child protection, safeguarding and working with children in need
• Proven communications skills - written, oral & IT - Excellent verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Proven organisation skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to promote partnership working
• Problem solving skills
• Flexibility
• Knowledge of local and National Public Health Priorities

Desirable

• Experience of working with safeguarding families.
• Knowledge and understanding of different leadership styles and the need to adapt according to the situation, with awareness of own preferred style and its advantages/disadvantages.
• Good knowledge and clear understanding of how own behaviours and attitudes impact on others.
• Knowledge of effective supervision which is supportive, encourages reflection and promote service and professional development, liaising with PSL as appropriate.
• Knowledge of effective supervision which is supportive, encourages reflection and promote service and professional development, liaising with PSL as appropriate.
• Knowledge and understanding of appropriate professional challenge
• Knowledge and understanding of Chat Health & Parentline services.

Physical requirements
Essential

• Ability to cope with the demands of the role

Travelling
Essential

• Ability to travel across Trust sites

Values and Behaviours
Essential

• All staff should be able to demonstrate an understanding of commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as identified within the Trust's Equality and Diversity Policy, and associated Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Legislation.
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork.

Employer details
Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashfield Health & Wellbeing Centre

Portland Street

Kirkby-in-Ashfield

NG17 7AE

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