247876- Health Visitor

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate \& Property \& Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

The main role for the Health Visitor (HV) is to be the designated named HV for all Children within their caseload from antenatal to school entry age, excluding the unborn child. This requires the HV to commence the child’s planning process. To discharge these responsibilities the postholder will have a responsibility to monitor the child’s wellbeing and assess if a need is identified. They will work in partnership with the child’s family and all involved agencies to produce a child’s plan which will require to be monitored.

In this key role, you will:

• To work with all professionals involved with the child or young person and their families to assess, analyse, develop and agree a multiagency child’s plan based on the agreed policies and procedures. Implement and monitor the plan to endeavour to ensure the child’s needs are met and desired outcomes achieved.


• The HV will deliver the universal pathway to all children on the caseload, to ensure that their health and wellbeing needs are assessed. This will include being responsible for delivery of a suite of developmental and wellbeing assessments, and being highly skilled in the use of validated tools, using a strengths based and empowering approach to the therapeutic relationship working in partnership with families. The HV requires to be an expert in the assessment and analysis of these tool results to ensure that referral to other services is made in a timely fashion to ensure that each child’s needs are met


• In accordance with NMC codes of practice and as a member of a team working in partnership with other agencies, actively contribute to the creation of an environment that supports assessment and learning of all staff, providing mentorship and clinical supervision to enable all team members to continuously update, develop and implement current knowledge and skills to meet changing needs of the service


• To maintain effective written and verbal communications with families/carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure family needs are met and appropriate information is shared and documented in the locally agreed record keeping system in accordance with NMC guidelines and current legislation

What You'll Bring:

• Registered nurse or midwife at degree level or equivalent


• Post\-registration qualification in Health Visiting/Public Health Nursing and be registered on Part 3 of the NMC register


• Can demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge gained through, for example, completion of NES modules on Assessment, Leadership, and Critical Thinking.


• Can provide advice using significant understanding and application of legislation relating to information sharing, data storage and public protection


• Experience of caseload management and planning to meet deadlines


• Experience of using a strength based approach working in partnership with families


• A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave \- 35 days including public holidays


• Generous NHS pension scheme


• Annual incremental salary progression


• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service


• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent \- regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience\* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Shona Moir , Health Visitor Team Leader on Shona.Moir@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact\- Heather Lamont, Recruitment Administrator on heather.lamont@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, righttowork requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.

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