Health Visitor - Children's Services

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Health Visitor to join our Renfrewshire HSCP Children and Families Teams. The post will be based in Paisley. Various days and hours available within the Monday to Friday period. We are fully committed to the key ambition and aims of Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), to provide children and young people with the best possible start in life. We are passionate about supporting our team members with ongoing opportunities for continued learning and development.

We are fully committed to the key ambition and aims of Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), to provide children and young people with the best possible start in life. Working as a Health Visitor within the Children and Families Health Visiting team you will provide a high quality, safe, and effective health visiting service in the community, working in collaboration with partner agencies. You will have overall responsibility for the supervision/management of a health visiting caseload, being accountable for the quality of care delivered through robust assessment, referral and communication processes and implementation of evidence-based practice interventions to address need. You should have in-depth knowledge, expertise, proficiency and experience in health visiting, child protection and the GIRFEC/National practice model Framework. Renfrewshire HSCP provides team members with ongoing opportunities for continued learning and development.

It is essential that you are currently a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and you have a post registration qualification in Health Visiting/Public Health Nursing, and registered on Part 3 of the NMC register.

Duration, Location, and Working Pattern

• Location: Based in Northcroft Medical Centre
• Contract: Permanent
• Working Pattern: Full-time Position (36 hours per week)
• Working Hours: Various days and hours available within the Monday to Friday period

Key Responsibilities

• To undertake statutory duties on behalf of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde with respect to individual children within your caseload to assess, improve and support the wellbeing of children.
• To work with all professionals involved with the child or young person and their families to assess, analyse, develop and agree a multiagency child’s plan based on the agreed policies and procedures. Implement and monitor the plan to endeavour to ensure the child’s needs are met and desired outcomes achieved.
• To work in partnership with individual children’s families, working with other agencies and key stakeholders to ensure that all parties undertake their responsibilities within the agreed plan.
• The HV will provide key input in relation to Child Protection and other vulnerable children. The HV will play a key interagency role in family assessment, planning and delivery of Child Protection services. The HV will participate in regular supervision of child protection cases and work within the child protection policies and guidelines.
• The HV will be responsible for making professional judgments and decisions about the sharing of information about each child and family. This will require a complex analysis of the level of risk to a child; the reason information needs shared, the conditions for processing under Data Protection law, GDPR and the conditions for sharing in relation to confidentiality law, and the conditions for sharing in relation to human rights (family privacy) law. The HV will follow law and guidance, but will use conservable professional judgment to reach decisions to share or not share information.
• The HV will deliver the universal pathway to all children on the caseload, to ensure that their health and wellbeing needs are assessed. This will include being responsible for delivery of a suite of developmental and wellbeing assessments, and being highly skilled in the use of validated tools, using a strengths based and empowering approach to the therapeutic relationship working in partnership with families. The HV requires to be an expert in the assessment and analysis of these tool results to ensure that referral to other services is made in a timely fashion to ensure that each child’s needs are met.