Job summary

Are you a qualified, NMC registered, Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor or a student SCPHN Health Visitor, qualifying in the next few months?

Do you have:

• Excellent all-round communication and listening skills.
• A willingness to train and progress.
• Ability to work autonomously and yet be part of a wider team.
• Qualities of leadership and be willing to take responsibility and make appropriate decisions.
• Ability to reflect, learn and build on previous experience and knowledge.

If yes, we would love to hear from you.

Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Tower Hamlets.

We have within Tower Hamlets excellent opportunities within our 0-19 team for innovative and motivated Health Visitors who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service.

We offer our health visitors:

Excellent pay package.

Exceptional Health and Wellbeing support for all our staff.

Comprehensive training and creative learning opportunities.

Forums where you can feedback your concerns and ideas to improve our service. We have a commitment to listening to staff and taking frontline direction so to practice in line with the highest clinical standards.

Preceptorship for newly qualified Health Visitors, competency-based learning, and supportive mentoring.

Main duties of the job

1. Identify, assess, monitor, and support children in need including those whose welfare or safety are at risk and in accordance with Child Protection policies and procedures.

2. Be responsible for providing the Healthy Child Programme and service to a defined caseload of families and to have a key role in assessing needs of clients, and planning and implementing appropriate interventions for families on the caseload, working collaboratively and referring, if necessary, to other health, Childrens Social Care and community agencies.

3. Work in partnership with families and communities, acting as a point of reference, to provide advice and be a key referral agent.

4. Ensure productivity targets/KPIs are met for the Health Child Programme especially in relation to the commissioned service specification and including additional contacts for Waltham Forest.

5. Identify, and refer appropriately, children requiring secondary assessment because of undertaking the mandated and any follow up health reviews, and be responsible for ensuring all vulnerable families on a defined case load are seen appropriately, assessments are made using a strengths-based approach and ensure any concerns are raised with childrens social care and take part in joint working to safeguard the children.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovation and support for primary care
• Being a great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes