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Specialist Health Visitor - Homeless Health Visitor

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
locationLondon, UK
PublishedPublished: Published 2 days ago
Homelessness
Permanent
Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
  • Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
  • Current NMC registration
  • Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training.
Desirable criteria
  • Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards
Experience

Essential criteria
  • Health visiting experience in managing complex and safeguarding situations.
  • Be able to coordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets.
  • Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
  • Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
  • Experience of assessing, planning, and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
  • Experience of evidence-based care.
Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of recent developments in national health service policy
  • Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to the area of work and professional practice
  • Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children's Plan, etc.)
  • Current knowledge of child protection issues
Key Atrributes

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Desirable criteria
  • Able to meet the required IT Skills for the post
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

  • Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 760.3KB)
  • CLCH TRUST VALUES (PDF, 784.3KB)