Health Visitor - Band 6

Location Birmingham
Job type Contract
Salary £26.00 - £30.00 per hour
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference HQ00109730_1598366577

Sanctuary Health is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Band 6 Health Visitor to work full-time in Birmingham. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge as a Health Visitor and be registered with the NMC.

The pay rate for this locum Health Visitor job is £26 to £30 per hour (Assignment rate).

Job Purpose:

  • As post holder of this role you will be responsible for assessing needs and providing health promotion and illness prevention services to the local population.
  • If successful, you will work within a corporate caseload as well as with the local population on children and family centred public health related issues.

Main Duties:

  • To consistently demonstrate in all relationships with families, colleagues and partner professionals, the BCHC Trust Values and the 6 Cs of nursing of commitment, competence, courage, communication, compassion and care in the role of Health Visitor.
  • Develop a workload profile identifying those groups within the population with specific health needs.
  • Work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice case load, families using local children's centres early education clusters, and other health partners.
  • Deliver the health child programme through compassionate caring assessment and analysis of need, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care using assessment tools in accordance with commissioner service specification for the health visiting service order to address identified health need.
  • Use the common assessment framework to assess and plan with families where multiagency partnership working is required.
  • Formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to need, where necessary opening active health and wellbeing files.
  • Monitor all open files in accordance with the records management policy, closing when package of care is complete.
  • Carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities, meeting and reporting on agreed key performance indicators where appropriate.
  • Give evidence based advice on health issues to members of the local population in a way which promotes behavioural change and builds on strengths.

Requirements of the Health Visitor:

  • An in date DBS is required for all roles/work
  • RGN qualified
  • NMC registered with valid live pin
  • Recent UK experience as a Health Visitor
  • Must have children's experience
  • Required to work Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00

Contact:

This Health Visitor job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.