Job vacancy: Children's Health Promotion Advisor, Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Variable across localities

Job summary

Main area: Children's Health Promotion Advisor (Band 4)
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (12 month from start date in post)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 844-6390344

Employer: Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: VCHC
Town: Variable across localities
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/07/2024 23:59

Children's Health Promotion Advisor

Band 4

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:

We will support you and your community to live well.

Our values:

Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.

WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.

We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Works across Wirral supporting delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19.

Manages a delegated active caseload, working as a member of a skill mixed team, responsible for interacting constructively with team members and organising, prioritising and planning their work. This includes, arranging visits and supporting delivery of universal services and additional packages of care. Facilitation and delivery of clinics and group sessions as required, including evenings based on service need.

Undertakes Healthy Child reviews/contacts and promotes uptake of immunisation as per Trust and professional guidelines.

Supporting delivery of identified packages of care, providing support and advice to clients ensuring family Health Visitors/School Nurse is informed of progress and outcomes.

Provides a holistic approach to promoting health and wellbeing whilst undertaking unsupervised contact, recognising when to liaise and report to Health Visitors/School Nurses and Team Leader

Provides advice and on-going support to parents to enable them to make informed choices in areas such as: diet, parenting skills, sleep, behaviour and safety.

Identifies individual client needs and provides advice to empower parents/carers by considering a range of options to minimise risk-taking behaviours for example: alcohol misuse, smoking, obesity and sexual health.

Assist in the development of materials and activities for inclusion in health promotion and behaviour change programmes. Prepare health education displays and maintains material/leaflets.

Deliver a range of health promoting programmes and activities for inclusion in a variety of settings including: mental wellbeing, physical activity, stop smoking support, oral health, food and nutrition and lifestyle/weight management.

Contributes to the completion of the family health review at identified contacts.

Refer clients to other services for more specialist support as appropriate.

Responsible for organising, planning and implementing the Child Health Clinics and drop in clinics in various settings and follows the Trust’s Infection Control and Health and Safety policies.

Promotes positive health to individuals, families, groups, communities and relevant agencies.

Plan organise and attend a range of activities and participate in presentation of health promotion activities to children in schools, the general public and other agencies

Responsible for the safe use of equipment, including transportation, storage and reporting faults or concerns to the Team Leaders or Health Promotion Specialist.

Works in accordance with current Trust policies and procedures, ensuring safeguarding procedures are maintained.

Assists in the learning experience of students in their community placement and participates in the orientation of new team members.

Liaises with other statutory agencies and voluntary agencies as appropriate.

Attends regular management/caseload supervision with line manager.

Participates in the annual appraisal and PDR as per Trust policy.

As a lone worker adheres to the Trust health and safety and lone working policies.

Attends regular management/caseload supervision with line manager.

Possesses the Trusts core competencies for role and attends mandatory training relevant to role

Administration

Maintains accurate paper and SystmOne computer records as outlined by the NMC guidelines.

Works in accordance with the Trust’s policies/procedures and clinical guidelines.

Reports any absence from duty to the Team Leader and the Service lead in accordance with Trust guidelines.

Maintains own professional development

Attends essential learning in line with Trust guidelines.

The post holder will be required to undertake any other duties and responsibilities within the framework of the post.

This is not intended to be exhaustive and may be reviewed periodically with the post holder to ensure that the job relates to the job being performed.

Person specification

Qualifications and professional training

Essential criteria

NNEB/ NVQ Level 3 in Child Care/Public Health
Brief Intervention/Motivational interviewing trained
Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

Health and Social Care Foundation degree

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

Substantial experience in a health related post
Experience of working with children and young people
Experience of working in the community
Experience of integrated working and liaising with other agencies
Awareness of local health priorities
Experience of delivering/facilitating activities to individuals and groups
Knowledge of safeguarding issues
Awareness of Public Health audits data collection and report writing

Desirable criteria

Experience of delivering health improvement training and advice to individuals and groups

Skills and attributes

Essential criteria

Good verbal, non verbal and written communication skills
Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
Ability to work as part of a team and independently
Effective interpersonal skills
Good organisational and time management skills

Desirable criteria

Ability to facilitate groups and discussions

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Access to a car for work purposes
Commitment
Vision

Important Information

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.

We are a Disability Confident and Mindful Employer. WCHC is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of disability, age, sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, marriage/civil partnership or transgender status. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.

Further Information:

Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.

Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.

Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made.

Restricted Applications: Staff on the Trust's Redeployment Register will be given priority access to vacancies at their substantive band.

Flexible Working: Flexible working is very important to the Trust in both the provision of this to staff and also in staff supporting the provision of our services.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to discharging its statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults and will support staff to fulfil this duty.

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We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.

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Applicant requirements

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jennifer Banks
Job title: Wallasey 0-19 Team Leader
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0151 514 0219

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Job summary

Employer heading

Children's Health Promotion Advisor

Band 4

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications and professional training

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills and attributes

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Important Information

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact