Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Student Health Visitors
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Job Overview
As a Student Health Visitor with BCHCFT, you will undertake the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) (Health Visiting) level 7 Course in partnership with Birmingham City University (BCU). Approximately 50% of the course is delivered in university and 50% in placement areas across the trust. The holidays will be fixed throughout the 52-week duration of the course.
The main post holder will be responsible for overseeing academic and practice placements to ensure their completion, working across BCHC and accepting to travel to sites as required.
Throughout the course theory will be embedded into practice and as an NMC registrant you will be expected to further develop your communication, leadership, and reflective skills. In practice you will be supported by dedicated and innovative Health Visiting colleagues who are committed to supporting and developing Student Health Visitors and then welcoming newly qualified Health Visitors into the teams.
You will be required to be a car driver.
Successful Completion Of The Course Will Lead To Registration On Part 3 Of The NMC Register As a Health Visitor And Eligibility To Apply For a Post Within The Integrated Health Visiting And Birmingham Forward Steps Service Which Offers:
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- Access to clinical and safeguarding supervision
- Access to a 12-month preceptorship programme
- A continuous programme of in-house professional development
- A workplace with a strong focus on staff wellbeing
- Focus on developing clinical leadership skills
- Future development opportunities for band 7 specialist HV roles e.g., safeguarding, homelessness, strengthening families etc.
- Access to IT and technology solutions to support agile working
Before commencing training, successful candidates will be asked to sign a BCHC Training Contract that will cover them for the duration of the course that will commit them to working within our Health Visiting service for a minimum period of 24 months post qualification.
Applications are welcomed from all who meet the essential criteria including those currently working in clinical roles Band 5.
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
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If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Narinder Rai
- Job title: Clinical Student Manager Post registration - C&F
- Email address: narinder.rai1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07702338912
Additional Contact Information
If you would like to discuss the role further please contact:
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Contact name: Narinder Rai
- Job title: Clinical student manager post registration
- Contact email address: Narinder.rai1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07702338912
Birmingham City University
- Dr. Laura Maguire | Senior Lecturer in Advancing Practice | Course Leader: Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting and School Nursing)
- Laura.maguire@bcu.ac.uk
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