Staff Nurse (Health Visiting Team) Band 5

Job summary
The Health Visiting Staff Nurse is a registered nurse working as part of the Health Visiting Team providing preventative and supportive health care to children and families in Wiltshire. This includes the identification, monitoring and provision of targeted support to vulnerable children and those whose welfare and safety may be at risk. The post holder works as a member of the Health Visiting Team maintaining a public health focus under the supervision of a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) to deliver the Healthy Programme in a variety of settings including the home and community venues as delegated by the Health Visitor. All allocated work is completed within the designated competency framework.

Base: The role Is based at one of the organisations 3 main hubs In Wiltshire and supported by agile and mobile working.

Main Responsibilities

• Work within the boundaries of the Staff Nurse Competency framework
• Help the Health Visiting Team to achieve Key Performance Indicators
• To work in partnership with children and families to identify any health needs at the earliest opportunity and to provide appropriate support to achieve positive outcomes.
• Help Early Years Services in the community such as Childrens Centres and Early Years settings.
• To support Infant feeding and parent infant relationships by adhering to the Baby Friendly Initiative Standards
• You will complete the Family Health Needs assessment for allocated mandated reviews and update the SCPHN (Health Visitor) with any areas of concern.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description

About us
HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, established in 2006. The organisation collaborates with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with an emphasis on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group manages adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, and various other specialty services. Their values of care, consideration, and action guide them in supporting over half a million people yearly. The organisation is committed to equal opportunities, welcoming diverse applications and providing inclusive facilities and technical solutions for their team members.

The ideal candidate will have -
Essential:

• NMC registration in a field of nursing
• Experience in working with children and families
• Holds a full driving license, and car owner.
• Knowledge of national and local policy in Childrens Service and Public Health.
• Understanding of child development.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment and ability to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and families with the skills to build sustainable professional boundaries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues in plain language at all levels both within and outside the organisation.
• Ability to work alone and part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of effective teamwork
• Demonstrates an interest in public health and Health Visiting
• Ability to work flexibly to respond to service needs.
• Computer literate

Desirable:

• Registered Childrens Nurse
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Knowledge of behavior change theory.
• Practice supervisor/practice assessor qualification
• Interest in undertaking the SCPHN qualification

Package Description
As a Staff Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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