Job summary
Employer heading
Health Visitor Darlington 0-19 Team
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
**Please note, the NHS salary scales have recently changed and are expected to come into effect in October. New starters joining the Trust before this time will commence on the old payscales and will move to the new ones once they have been finalised**
Darlington Growing Healthy 0-19 Service, are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic, experienced health visitors who want to lead and support the training of our health visitors of the future.
Joining our team, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme, to families across Darlington. We would love you to come and help us to ensure positive outcomes for our children and families. We follow the key principles of the Best Start in Life, and successfully support integrated working , and learning with our Darlington partners.
Main duties of the job
Being a high performing team, we are looking for qualified health visitors to lead our skill mix team, and help us train the health visitors of the future. and support families across Darlington ,in delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
- Delivering the Healthy Child Contacts.
- Providing health promotion at community events.
- Leading and supporting skill mix team.
- Supporting students.
Working for our organisation
At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide ‘outstanding’ care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.
• An inclusive and supportive culture – our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
• Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact [email protected]
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification (HV)
- NMC registration
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Continued Professional development
- NBO Trained
- Ability to work with multi agency teams.
- Mentorship qualification
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Agnew
- Job title
- Locality Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07392194192
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