Health Visitor, Turn Around for Children Service (TACS)

Job overview

This is a part time permanent post for 22.5 hours a week.

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven member of staff to join the Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) as a health visitor. The post holder will have responsibility to assess a specialist group of clients from the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC). They will plan and implement health visitor services for each of our families based on their personal needs and as identified by the court process.

Job description

To provide and maintain evidence-based specialist care adapted to meet the needs of a defined community population to ensure that service users receive appropriate intervention, maintaining the standards set at a local and national level.

Please see Job description for the full list of the main duties of this role.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will within a multiagency team to identify early and engage to help at risk families delivering evidenced based episodes of care.

The post holder will have a shared responsibility for managing skill mix teams

The post holder will participate in practice development and public health initiatives

The post holder will have responsibility for maintaining own professional accountability through supervision and updating.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For moreinformationplease visithttps://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

About the organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to a degree level (or equivalent)
• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification, diploma or degree
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on part 1 or 2 (Registered Nurse of Midwife)- RHV Health Visitor HV Health Visitor

Length and /or nature of experience

Essential

• Experience of working across agencies
• Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
• Evidence of child protection experience
• Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs

Professional/ managerial/ specialist knowledge

Essential

• Sound understanding of the NHS plan and other national policies and how it will impact on local services
• Knowledge of health visiting policies and procedures that underpin evidence based practice

Desirable

• Knowledge of Family Drug and Alcohol Court, framework and practices

Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Accurate clinical record keeping following national and local guidelines
• The ability to undertake in-depth and evidence based reports to assist allied professionals within the FDAC
• To deliver specific & specialised assessments and interventions
• Provision of accurate data following set systems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Maintain records as per NMC guidelines/local policy
• IT literacy
• Ability to teach, assess and present
• Good listening, communication and networking skills
• Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues and clients
• Ability to undertake all statutory and mandatory training

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages eg Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Outlook

Other requirements

Essential

• Ability to cope with a frequently changing professional climate

Desirable

• Ability to travel around the locality as requested, independently and efficiently.

Supporting documents

• CYPS HV TACS JD.pdf (PDF, 274 KB)
• CYPS HV TACS PS.pdf (PDF, 137 KB)