Somerset Council
Health Visitor
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Closing date: 17/08/2026
Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro-rata for 30 hours per week.
This role will be based in Glastonbury.
Role Summary
The Health Visitor plays a pivotal leadership role in managing a local Public Health Nursing team and delivering high-quality, preventative health services to children, families, and the wider community. You'll be responsible for the effective coordination of staffing, oversight of clinical interventions, and the development of team members through supervision, appraisal, and ongoing professional development.
A key part of the role is undertaking community health needs assessments, prioritising workloads, and ensuring early intervention through evidence-based programmes. You will also lead on safeguarding practice, providing specialist advice to families and professionals, responding to actual or suspected abuse, and ensuring adherence to national and local guidelines.
This role also requires strong partnership working with health services, education, social care, and other agencies to deliver integrated support for children and families. You'll be responsible for planning, implementing, and reviewing individual care plans, delivering targeted health education, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
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What You’ll Do - Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring the co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care to promote positive health.
- Provide professional and team leadership to manage a defined team delivering care to a geographical caseload/population.
- Work with vulnerable children and families in line with national and local policies relating to safeguarding children and provide specialist support and advice to children, families and schools.
- Work in partnership with other agencies, particularly health services, education and social care, to manage and co-ordinate programmes of intervention.
- Attend professionally related working groups, as appropriate, to help develop and agree local policies and protocols, and respond to local health needs.
Essential
What we’re looking for – knowledge, experience & skills
- Demonstrate working knowledge of the Public Health and Preventative Strategy.
- Working knowledge of child protection procedures and policies.
- Proven clinical and managerial leadership ability, or prepared to take a leadership course.
- Registered Health Visitor.
- Public Health Specialist Practitioner – Degree or Post Graduate diploma (or equivalent qualification pre-1988).
- Nurse Prescriber V100 Qualification or equivalent.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Ability to organise and deliver education on a 1-1 or group setting.
- Able to have responsibility for a caseload and delegate appropriately, with ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Ability to lead teams – Public Health Nurses, Staff nurses and Assistant Practitioners.
- Audit and research skills, report writing skills and IT competent.
- Maintain records as per NMC Guidelines/local policy.
- Ability to speak fluent English as stated in Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016).
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Additional Information
This is a permanent role working 30 hours a week. The role involves frequent travel across rural areas of Somerset, and lone working on occasion.
- 30 days of annual leave (additional to bank holidays)
- Regretfully, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. We are only able to proceed with candidates who already have the right to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship
Job description: AG0971 Health Visitor.pdf
For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Rebecca Humphrey via email at rebecca.humphrey@somerset.gov.uk.
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