Health Visitor - Rural North

Health Visitor - Bulkington / Bedworth

Hours: Full time & Part time hours available

Covering Bulkington, Bedworth and Keresley areas including Bramcote Barracks.

We are currently recruiting for a Health Visitor within Bulkington / Bedworth Health Visiting Team.

You would need to be a qualified nurse / midwife and hold a Specialist Public Health Nursing Qualification in Health Visiting to apply for this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Health Visiting Service at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust within a rewarding and challenging environment.

The primary role of the Health Visitor is to lead on and deliver the Healthy Child Programme to improve outcomes for children. There is also opportunity to become a champion for any of the 6 High Impact Areas as well as initiatives such as CHAT Health.

You would be part of a team Health Visitors, Community Nursery Nurses and Health Visiting Clerical Assistants.

To effectively lead and deliver on the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-5 (DH 2010) to improve outcomes for the children and families.

Named responsibility and professional accountability for the management of a defined team caseload including the delegation of tasks to members of the team.

To contribute to the Public Health Agenda, meet Public Health targets and reduce health inequalities.

To actively lead teams both within Health Visiting and partner agencies.

To work as part of a team to ensure that the services key performance indicators targets are achieved.

To act as a role model and be professional at all times adhering to the current NMC Code of Conduct.

To participate in nurse prescribing following NMC and local policy.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nikki Smith Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07979705373