Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Family Partnership Practice Lead
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Eligibility Notice At this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Kent Health Visiting Service as a Family Partnership Practice Lead (FPPL) to work within the Swale District. The FPPL has a key role in embedding the Family Partnership Model within Kent Health Visiting Services under the guidance of the Family Partnership Programme Manager. The Family Partnership Model is an innovative approach which is evidence-based and enables parents and families to overcome their difficulties, build strengths and resilience and fulfil their goals more effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Working as part of the local Health Visiting team, the Family Partnership Practice Lead will facilitate the early identification of families in need of additional support, provide enhanced support while delivering the Family Partnership Programme.
- The leads will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, manage a small caseload of families, supporting them ante-natally and until their infant is a year old.
- The post holder will also have a lead role in embedding the Family Partnership Model within district health visiting practice as well as providing clinical supervision.
- Fulfil both leadership, and some line management responsibilities to the team.
- Contribute to a safe and effective operational running of the Health Visiting Service.
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Role Requirements
- You need to be a resilient and flexible Health Visitor, with excellent communication, team leadership skills, while acting as a role model to uphold high professional standards and promote high-quality, person-centred care.
Additional Information
- Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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About Us
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Vita MartinAchong
- Job title: Family Partnership Programme Manager
- Email address: vmartin-achong@nhs.net
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