Band 6 Health Visitor: 0-19 FHWS, Newcastle
Trust: Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
Location: Porthill Clinic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Role: Public Health Practitioner 0-19
Band 6 Health Visitor, 0-19 FHWS - Newcastle
The Families Health & Wellbeing Service 0 - 19, are looking for a Band 6 Health Visitor to support their team at Porthill Clinic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
- Band 6 Health Visitor
- Part time - one day per week, any day is appreciated
- 09:00 - 17:00
- Porthill Clinic, Newcastle-under-Lyme
- ASAP to 1st March 2023
Job Details
Service : 0-19 Service
Department/Directorate Operations - Children's services
Reports to: Team Leader
Accountable to: Neighbourhood Manager
Job Purpose/Main Duties/Responsibilities
The Post holder will:
* Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role.
* Work within their scope of practice
* Demonstrate at all times the Values of Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust.
* Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
* Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
* Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people's care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
* Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
* Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
* Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
* To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved.
Nature of the Service
The post holder will be part of the 0-19 service providing the healthy child programme in the Hub.
This is a dynamic post that requires the post holder to work closely with uni/multi-disciplinary teams/agencies in addressing a range of care/support issues across the spectrum of conditions, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and improving the health and wellbeing of the population served. The nature of the service will be determined by local service specifications.
if you require additional information, please contact Jamie.Redpath@medacs.com or call 01785 256434 opt.1 opt.3
