Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visitor
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6186731-OPS-A
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Shropshire
- Town
- Shropshire
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
SCPHN Health Visitor
NHS AfC: Band 6
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
If you are passionate about promoting health and wellbeing in the under 5’s, keeping the child at the heart of everything you do and have a real ‘can do’ solution focused attitude to your practice, then we would love you to join our Health Visiting Teams in Shropshire. This post is based in North East Shropshire covering Whitchurch, Wem and Market Drayton.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants will join one of the supportive, dedicated Public Health teams delivering universal and targeted support to children under 5 and their families in Shropshire.
We use RiO electronic record which facilitates home working for staff, allowing for greater flexibility in working and work life balance. You will therefore need to be a good communicator and work well as part of a team as well as being able to work independently.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Dudley and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered SCPHN Health Visitor
- NMC Registered
- Evidence of broader and recent CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a SCPHN
- Significant post-registration experience
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of child protection/safeguarding.
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience in multi-agency and collaborative working
- Experience of supporting, supervising and delegating to skill mix staff.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research
- Ability to analyse complex data and present findings
- Safeguarding Policies and Procedure
- Adaptable and flexible to changing needs of client group
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Carol Payton
- Job title
- Health Visitor Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970822003
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