Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme within a defined locality, ensuring children and families receive high-quality, evidence-based support and interventions.
• Assess the health and wellbeing needs of children and families, identifying risks and implementing personalised or targeted care plans to achieve positive outcomes.
• Take responsibility for public health outcomes within the local population, working collaboratively with partner agencies to address identified needs and reduce health inequalities.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with families, colleagues, and multi-agency partners to provide coordinated and effective support.
• Promote the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and families through health education, early intervention, signposting, and referrals to appropriate services.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload autonomously, taking accountability for the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of care and support.
• Identify, assess, and respond to safeguarding concerns, ensuring vulnerable children and families are protected and supported in line with legislation and best practice.
• Act as a role model for professional practice, contributing to service development, supporting learners and colleagues, and driving innovative approaches to improve local health outcomes.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) qualification (Health Visiting).
• Current NMC registration on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register.
• Experience of working within and leading Health Visiting teams.
• Proven experience of delivering interventions that improve outcomes for children and families, including safeguarding vulnerable children.
• Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor qualification, with experience supporting the development of nursing learners.
• Sound knowledge of health visiting programmes, tools, and evidence-based approaches used to improve outcomes for children and families.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, public health, and early intervention principles.
• Competent in the use of electronic patient records and IT systems.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Desirable Criteria

• Leadership qualification or additional training in leadership and service improvement.
• Experience of line management, team leadership, and workforce development.
• Experience presenting service outcomes, public health initiatives, or policy developments to commissioners and partner organisations.
• Experience setting measurable goals and leading interventions to achieve positive health outcomes.
• Experience managing complex cases involving safeguarding concerns and multi-agency working.
• Demonstrable experience leading innovative practice and contributing to service development initiatives.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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