Health Visitor

Job title:

Health Visitor

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

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Salary £37,338 to £44,962 per annum
Department Public Health
Working pattern Full Time
Location Frome
Closing date 19 December, 2024About the job

• The salary for this post is in line with Agenda for Change Band 6, which has a current salary range of £37,338 to £44,962 per annum
• 37.5 hours per week
• Frome
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme, Subject to meeting certain criteria, or Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.

We’re working to improve the lives of children under 0-5 and their families in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• Lead on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme as defined within the service specification, identifying packages of care based on the Universal, Targeted and Specialist models of service delivery.
• Provide leadership and supervision to other members of the Public Health Team ensuring you delegate appropriately to other team members and work within somerset Local Authority policies and procedures.
• Take responsibility for the outcomes of the children and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.
• Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
• Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
• Provide families and children 0-5 with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing.
• Contribute to multi-agency early support assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.

We are looking for an ambitious Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) to join our award-winning service in Somerset. Using your lived experience, you will be able to get involved in service development and share ideas and best practice.You must be an NMC registered Nurse or Midwife with a SCPHN qualification and an interest of holistically addressing the health needs of children aged 0-5 years and their families.We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• iHV professional membership
• Flexible, family friendly working patterns, working between 9:00 – 5:00 Monday to Friday
• Prioritised superb Safeguarding, Clinical, and Restorative supervision
• The opportunity to fulfil your leadership role within the team
• Continuing Professional Development opportunities
• 30 days annual leave allowance (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

If you want to get to know our team, come and visit us or learn more about these roles, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact:Claire Eacott at claire.eacott@somerset.gov.ukIn this role you will require a criminal background check via Disclosure and Barring Service.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£37338 – 44962 per year

Location

Frome, Somerset

Job date

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:16:14 GMT

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