• Job Description

  Req#: C9348-25-1422?language=en&page=161&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to; Hampshire IOW Healthcare NHS Trust, Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

  The specialised Health visiting team for Infant Mental Health is dedicated to supporting infants and their primary caregivers, including parents, foster carers, grandparents, and others assuming this role, during the crucial period of the infants first two years of life. The team offer direct support for parent-infant relationships and address the social, emotional, and mental health needs of infants. This service operates from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, for infants residing within the geographical area of Hampshire.

  The team is committed to delivering sensitive, responsive, and appropriate care that is essential for the healthy development of infants. Their primary objective is to assist caregivers in addressing the infants social, emotional, mental health challenges, enhancing existing parenting skills, and fostering a strong parent-infant relationship. Services are provided through home visits or at alternative venues such as clinical settings or community spaces across Hampshire.

  Main duties of the job

  The successful post holder will be committed to delivering sensitive, responsive, and appropriate care that is essential for the healthy development of infants. Their primary objective is to assist caregivers in addressing the infants social, emotional, mental health challenges, enhancing existing parenting skills, and fostering a strong parent-infant relationship. Services are provided through home visits or at alternative venues such as clinical settings or community spaces across Hampshire.

  The successful post holder will be part of a team that inter-professionally collaborate with the public health visiting service, which implements the Healthy Child Programme for infants and their families during the initial five years of life. The team will assist with inter-disciplinary named professionals/services to support family centred care.

  About us

  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

  With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

  Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

  Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

  Details

  Date posted

  04 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £26,530 to £29,114 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  348-SS-7599

  Job locations

  Moorgreen Hospital

  Botley Road, West End

  Southampton

  Hampshire

  SO30 3JB

  
  

  Parklands House

  London Road

  Basingstoke

  Hampshire

  RG21 4AP

  
  

  Tatchbury Mount

  Calmore

  Southampton

  Hampshire

  SO40 2RZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The primary role of the community Nursery Nurse role involves visiting infants in their own homes or at alternative venues such as clinical settings or community spaces across Hampshire as delegated intervention by the infant mental health team Health Visitors and Early Years Practitioners.The role includes working in partnership with internal and external colleagues and partners showing knowledge and understanding of the parent-infant relationship and contemporary issues which impact on child development, infant mental health, and wellbeing.

  The role holder will work in partnership with infant mental health team members to offer evidence-based/informed approaches that promote infant-led play, enhance language development, improve infant-parent interactions, and foster the infant's developing attachment and the bonding process with parents.

  The role

  The role holder will promote and support health and wellbeing of infants and their families through individualised health care plans with the oversight of a team health visitor.

  The role holder will have a comprehensive understanding of infant-childhood development with an ability to apply this to practice and service delivery.

  The role holder will ensure the quality-of-service delivery to infants and their families is aligned with the commissioned requirements of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19yrs and the Trust vision and values.

  The role holder may complete delegated and contribute to components of the healthy child programme, monitoring quality and compliance and reporting risks by exception to the specialist infant mental health visitor lead.

  The role holder will provide a continuum of support according to need, improving outcomes for children by reducing health inequalities. To support the Early Help agenda to ensure early intervention.

  Work within Hampshire Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trusts policy and procedures.

  The role holder will be responsible for the quality and management of their RiO electronic patient records, RiO mobile and electronic diary.

  To maintain confidentiality and adhere to local polices at all times in line with Trust Policy.

  To ensure accurate and concise record keeping relating to both infants and parents as well as documenting interactions with external agencies where appropriate

  To recognise and promote all aspects of culture diversity, devising infant mental health care plans as guided by infant mental health visitor, that respond positively to ethnic awareness with sensitivity, where necessary

  Support parent with the infants physical and emotional needs.

  Working alongside current guidelines regarding sleep, settling, managing crying, keeping in mind, infants brain development and emotional needs.

  Role modelling- safe handling of infant.

  Awareness of safeguarding protocol and escalating and recording as needed.

  To work within Hampshire Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trust Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.

  To contribute to interventions identified through the child protection plan as delegated by the Health Visitor, and support children and families where there are identified vulnerabilities.

  To deliver a safe and effective service using service user feedback to improve patient experience and outcomes.

  To support Health Visitors with integrated working; developing and maintaining relationships with statutory and non-statutory agencies.

  To liaise regularly with other professionals involved in the infant's care

  To always treat team colleagues with respect, creating a positive role model and team player

  Establishing communication networks with other professionals and agencies to ensure a comprehensive and consistent approach to client care is delivered.

  Support attachment and bonding through the following (*training provided where required)

  Help supporting families to understand infant's perspective (i.e., Keeping Infant in Mind)

  Playing and interaction

  Watch Me Play

  Parental Relationship Routine Enquiry

  Five to Thrive

  WellComm

  Modelling soothing and breathing techniques.

  Holistic sleep advice -- providing bespoke support.

  Infants' patterns and behaviours.

  Provide HCP health reviews

  Supporting parents to make parenting choices, considering their childhood ACES, and lived experiences.

  Infant feeding.

  Health promotion in line with current HCP guidance i.e., ICON, Safer sleeping, and introduction to solids.

  Working with infants and toddlers up to two years.

  The role of the postholder will be to support the inter-disciplinary team in meeting the needs of infants and their families by undertaking delegated duties that support and enable family centred care. The role includes ensuring that there is appropriate communication with other inter-disciplinary professionals involved in the care of the infant and family.

  An important facet of this role is to work within the ethos of 'think family'. A family approach can be effective in helping families and secures better outcomes for children (including unborn infants), adults with care and support needs, children, and their families; therefore, consultation and partnership working with all professionals (internal and external) involved with the infant and family is a key part of this role.

  The role has a degree of autonomy. The postholder will be required to work as an integral part of the inter-professional team.

  The post holder should be able to prioritise their own work and manage their own electronic diary. Care plans are developed in partnership with service users, the postholder will have the support and the review of a team health visitor to oversee parent and childcare planning.

  To provide parenting advice including play, development, sleep and behaviour management

  Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust policy.

  To identify opportunities for innovation and support Health Visitors in multi-agency working to enable delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

  To obtain service user feedback, participate in service user forums and support the Health Visitor to improve patient experience with engagement and service improvement.

  To ensure that services provided are to the required Trust quality and standard and in accordance with the Healthy Child Programme raising any risks to the Clinical Team Leader

  To ensure electronic patient records and data-collection systems are used appropriately, accurately and effectively to record and manage information which will be used to support service delivery and to report on Key Performance Indicators, supporting business need.

  To contribute to programmes of learning for new staff and students.

  To utilise training, development and the appraisal process to ensure access to appropriate learning opportunities and undertake statutory and mandatory training as required by the organisation.

  To adhere to the Clinical Supervision and Safeguarding Supervision policies.

  To ensure that Management Supervision is accessed every 3 months as a minimum or as required.

  Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

  We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The primary role of the community Nursery Nurse role involves visiting infants in their own homes or at alternative venues such as clinical settings or community spaces across Hampshire as delegated intervention by the infant mental health team Health Visitors and Early Years Practitioners.The role includes working in partnership with internal and external colleagues and partners showing knowledge and understanding of the parent-infant relationship and contemporary issues which impact on child development, infant mental health, and wellbeing.

  The role holder will work in partnership with infant mental health team members to offer evidence-based/informed approaches that promote infant-led play, enhance language development, improve infant-parent interactions, and foster the infant's developing attachment and the bonding process with parents.

  The role

  The role holder will promote and support health and wellbeing of infants and their families through individualised health care plans with the oversight of a team health visitor.

  The role holder will have a comprehensive understanding of infant-childhood development with an ability to apply this to practice and service delivery.

  The role holder will ensure the quality-of-service delivery to infants and their families is aligned with the commissioned requirements of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19yrs and the Trust vision and values.

  The role holder may complete delegated and contribute to components of the healthy child programme, monitoring quality and compliance and reporting risks by exception to the specialist infant mental health visitor lead.

  The role holder will provide a continuum of support according to need, improving outcomes for children by reducing health inequalities. To support the Early Help agenda to ensure early intervention.

  Work within Hampshire Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trusts policy and procedures.

  The role holder will be responsible for the quality and management of their RiO electronic patient records, RiO mobile and electronic diary.

  To maintain confidentiality and adhere to local polices at all times in line with Trust Policy.

  To ensure accurate and concise record keeping relating to both infants and parents as well as documenting interactions with external agencies where appropriate

  To recognise and promote all aspects of culture diversity, devising infant mental health care plans as guided by infant mental health visitor, that respond positively to ethnic awareness with sensitivity, where necessary

  Support parent with the infants physical and emotional needs.

  Working alongside current guidelines regarding sleep, settling, managing crying, keeping in mind, infants brain development and emotional needs.

  Role modelling- safe handling of infant.

  Awareness of safeguarding protocol and escalating and recording as needed.

  To work within Hampshire Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trust Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.

  To contribute to interventions identified through the child protection plan as delegated by the Health Visitor, and support children and families where there are identified vulnerabilities.

  To deliver a safe and effective service using service user feedback to improve patient experience and outcomes.

  To support Health Visitors with integrated working; developing and maintaining relationships with statutory and non-statutory agencies.

  To liaise regularly with other professionals involved in the infant's care

  To always treat team colleagues with respect, creating a positive role model and team player

  Establishing communication networks with other professionals and agencies to ensure a comprehensive and consistent approach to client care is delivered.

  Support attachment and bonding through the following (*training provided where required)

  Help supporting families to understand infant's perspective (i.e., Keeping Infant in Mind)

  Playing and interaction

  Watch Me Play

  Parental Relationship Routine Enquiry

  Five to Thrive

  WellComm

  Modelling soothing and breathing techniques.

  Holistic sleep advice -- providing bespoke support.

  Infants' patterns and behaviours.

  Provide HCP health reviews

  Supporting parents to make parenting choices, considering their childhood ACES, and lived experiences.

  Infant feeding.

  Health promotion in line with current HCP guidance i.e., ICON, Safer sleeping, and introduction to solids.

  Working with infants and toddlers up to two years.

  The role of the postholder will be to support the inter-disciplinary team in meeting the needs of infants and their families by undertaking delegated duties that support and enable family centred care. The role includes ensuring that there is appropriate communication with other inter-disciplinary professionals involved in the care of the infant and family.

  An important facet of this role is to work within the ethos of 'think family'. A family approach can be effective in helping families and secures better outcomes for children (including unborn infants), adults with care and support needs, children, and their families; therefore, consultation and partnership working with all professionals (internal and external) involved with the infant and family is a key part of this role.

  The role has a degree of autonomy. The postholder will be required to work as an integral part of the inter-professional team.

  The post holder should be able to prioritise their own work and manage their own electronic diary. Care plans are developed in partnership with service users, the postholder will have the support and the review of a team health visitor to oversee parent and childcare planning.

  To provide parenting advice including play, development, sleep and behaviour management

  Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust policy.

  To identify opportunities for innovation and support Health Visitors in multi-agency working to enable delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

  To obtain service user feedback, participate in service user forums and support the Health Visitor to improve patient experience with engagement and service improvement.

  To ensure that services provided are to the required Trust quality and standard and in accordance with the Healthy Child Programme raising any risks to the Clinical Team Leader

  To ensure electronic patient records and data-collection systems are used appropriately, accurately and effectively to record and manage information which will be used to support service delivery and to report on Key Performance Indicators, supporting business need.

  To contribute to programmes of learning for new staff and students.

  To utilise training, development and the appraisal process to ensure access to appropriate learning opportunities and undertake statutory and mandatory training as required by the organisation.

  To adhere to the Clinical Supervision and Safeguarding Supervision policies.

  To ensure that Management Supervision is accessed every 3 months as a minimum or as required.

  Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

  We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NNEB Diploma/NVQ QCF Diploma Level 3 in Early Years, Care and Education
  • Evidence of recent professional and personal development
  • Full UK Driving Licence (and access to a car) with business insurance

  Desirable

  • Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care or equivalent or a willingness to complete this
  • Commitment to continuous professional development
  • Knowledge of child protection issues.
  • Safeguarding level 3
  • Evidence of further professional development
  • First Aid
  • Competent Infant Mental Health awareness knowledge

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of delivering the Healthy Child Programme as a community nursery nurse
  • Has a comprehensive understanding of all stages of child development.
  • An awareness of the key drivers to improve health outcomes for children
  • An awareness of the relevant health promotion topic areas, i.e. Breastfeeding, healthy eating, accident prevention
  • An awareness of statutory and regulatory frameworks relevant to service delivery for children, young people, and their families, including safeguarding protocols and policies.
  • Demonstrates proficiency in the use of information and communication technology, including internet applications, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel), and relevant databases.
  • Demonstrates strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to interact effectively with team members, other agencies, service users, utilising information technology as needed.
  • Maintains accurate and comprehensive health records (Electronic Patient Records), and care plans.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work flexibly across a range of locations, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities as delegated by senior team members.
  • Engages in self-reflection and clinical/safeguarding supervision to facilitate personal, professional, and safe practice.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work flexibly across a range of locations

  Additional Criteria

  Essential

  • Able to work in a potentially highly emotional and thus challenging environment.
  • Undertake work of a sensitive and potentially difficult nature.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members and other agencies including verbal, written and IT
  • Ability to maintain accurate and comprehensive records and care plans
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Able to manage competing priorities as delegated by senior members of the team
  • Ability to work in partnership with parents/carers
  • Ability to provide advice and guidance in accurate spoken English (as required under the Immigration Act 2016).
  • Ability to impart health knowledge to children and families
  • Relevant experience working with children, families and other agencies
  • Experience of working in a team
  • Respectful and inclusive of staff, service users and partners
  • Team player willing to promote team ethos.
  • Ability to respond positively to the rapidly changing business environment.
  • Willingness to enhance personal and professional development
  • Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required
  • Demonstrate trust values, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NNEB Diploma/NVQ QCF Diploma Level 3 in Early Years, Care and Education
  • Evidence of recent professional and personal development
  • Full UK Driving Licence (and access to a car) with business insurance

  Desirable

  • Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care or equivalent or a willingness to complete this
  • Commitment to continuous professional development
  • Knowledge of child protection issues.
  • Safeguarding level 3
  • Evidence of further professional development
  • First Aid
  • Competent Infant Mental Health awareness knowledge

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of delivering the Healthy Child Programme as a community nursery nurse
  • Has a comprehensive understanding of all stages of child development.
  • An awareness of the key drivers to improve health outcomes for children
  • An awareness of the relevant health promotion topic areas, i.e. Breastfeeding, healthy eating, accident prevention
  • An awareness of statutory and regulatory frameworks relevant to service delivery for children, young people, and their families, including safeguarding protocols and policies.
  • Demonstrates proficiency in the use of information and communication technology, including internet applications, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel), and relevant databases.
  • Demonstrates strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to interact effectively with team members, other agencies, service users, utilising information technology as needed.
  • Maintains accurate and comprehensive health records (Electronic Patient Records), and care plans.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work flexibly across a range of locations, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities as delegated by senior team members.
  • Engages in self-reflection and clinical/safeguarding supervision to facilitate personal, professional, and safe practice.
  • Demonstrates the ability to work flexibly across a range of locations

  Additional Criteria

  Essential

  • Able to work in a potentially highly emotional and thus challenging environment.
  • Undertake work of a sensitive and potentially difficult nature.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members and other agencies including verbal, written and IT
  • Ability to maintain accurate and comprehensive records and care plans
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Able to manage competing priorities as delegated by senior members of the team
  • Ability to work in partnership with parents/carers
  • Ability to provide advice and guidance in accurate spoken English (as required under the Immigration Act 2016).
  • Ability to impart health knowledge to children and families
  • Relevant experience working with children, families and other agencies
  • Experience of working in a team
  • Respectful and inclusive of staff, service users and partners
  • Team player willing to promote team ethos.
  • Ability to respond positively to the rapidly changing business environment.
  • Willingness to enhance personal and professional development
  • Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is required
  • Demonstrate trust values, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Moorgreen Hospital

  Botley Road, West End

  Southampton

  Hampshire

  SO30 3JB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Moorgreen Hospital

  Botley Road, West End

  Southampton

  Hampshire

  SO30 3JB

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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