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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information for  families and the wider multiagency team.
• To establish and maintain relationships with clients and wider team
  members. To communicate highly sensitive condition related information including child abuse, to clients, relatives, and the wider multiagency team.
• To interact with other team members throughout the Health Visiting Team, wider children’s services, and other external agencies.
• Lead and direct Health Visiting and Children’s Centre teams in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, while facilitating and empowering decision making within teams. Lead and implement policies, which inform and develop practice, while influencing strategies and policies, which improve health and reduce inequalities. This can be undertaken at a strategic level through health needs assessment.
• Assess the physical emotional and developmental needs of infants and children within the context of the family and community environment.
• Assess the need for further support for disadvantaged families and those in need of safeguarding.
• Assess the health needs of a defined geographical community and
  particular target groups in relation to young children and their families.
• Manage analyse and communicate data and information relating to health.
• Plan, organise and evaluate straightforward and complex activities or
  programmes. Plan and organise own workload and child health clinics.
• Participate actively in multi-agency planning meetings.
• Be able to deliver presentations to a multi-agency audience
• Must be a car owner/driver or have access to suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the role (Use of public transport is not seen as acceptable). You must have the ability to travel and may be required to work across both Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.
• Promote the health, wellbeing and developmental needs of infants and young children. Plan implement, deliver and monitor programmes designed to promote health and reduce inequalities.
• Respond in line with local safeguarding procedures to protect infants and young people from abuse and neglect.
• Through excellent communication and relationship building address health inequalities.
• Work in partnership supporting individuals and families to develop problem solving skills, foster positive relationships and promote health.
• Follow policies as outlined by the employer, which includes locally agreed policies and standards.
• Interpret local and national targets and quality indicators and put them into practice. Develop mechanisms to obtain feedback from stakeholders enabling further improvement of services. Support change and comment on proposals for change and contribute to developing and proposals