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Health Visitor

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LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON

2021-12-03 08:51:47

salary: 41850.00 British Pound . GBP Annual

Job location Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: Government & Defence

Job description

About the Role

Health visitors deliver the healthy child programme autonomously, assessing the health needs of the population and putting into place tailored packages of support and care to meet needs. They do this through an antenatal contact, new birth visits, 6-8 weeks development contact, 1 year development reviews and 2 year development reviews. We work very much in partnership with children centre staff, GPs, Social Services, Family Support workers and School Nursing and a range of other partners to support families here in Sutton. Our health visitors work to reduce health inequalities for children and young people and their families in Sutton and we pride ourselves as being at the heart of the Healthy Child Programme.

All newly qualified Health Visitors are offered a 6 months preceptorship period where you will have an allocated senior health visitor to support you. Post preceptorship, you will be further supported to develop your knowledge and skills in health visiting practice, and managing enhanced caseload.

About Us

Our Cheam and South Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington and Central Sutton Specialist Public Health ( 0-19) service (health visiting and school nursing) teams improve outcomes for our children, focusing in particular on improving school readiness, mental health and wellbeing and our SEND provision.

The service delivers the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 0 - 19 year. We work closely with the iHV and offer the exceptional benefit of annual membership for our staff. Our service prides itself in active partnership working with the iHV; staff members are encouraged to submit articles related to innovation and evidence-based practice where opportunities arise.

In addition to the above, we offer staff comprehensive training and encourage everyone to undertake personal development opportunities whether in leadership, specialist training around speech and language, children with extra needs, perinatal mental health, alongside personal preferences expressed by individuals to progress their interests and careers. We pride ourselves in innovation and hearing staff voices in improving our service provision to the benefit of our resident population here in Sutton.

About You

To apply for this role you will need to be a registered nurse or midwife and registered as a health visitor. Experienced in working in partnership across professional boundaries, good understanding of the practice of safeguarding children and able to work autonomously with high levels of self motivation and able to work in a team setting.

NHS Terms and Conditions including pension, annual leave and sick leave entitlements will transferable via the NHS passport.

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