Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Are you an experienced, newly qualified, retired, or returning Health Visitor eager to make a real difference?

We value fresh perspectives, collaboration, and a shared commitment to ensuring children, young people, and families receive the best care closer to home.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver High-Quality Care: You will provide compassionate, community-based support to children, young people, and families in the London boroughs of Brent and Ealing, helping them stay healthy and avoid unnecessary hospital visits
• Collaborate in Diverse Teams: You will also work closely within our skill mix teams comprising of newly qualified, experienced, returning, and retired Health Visitors to develop and implement innovative approaches that ensure children receive the best start in life

From April 2023 a Recruitment premia has been introduced to attract and retain qualified Health Visitors within CLCH’s Health Visiting Teams.
For registered Band 6 Health Visitors, this post is offering a premium of £2,500 payable upon commencement of employment (T&C’s apply)

Main duties of the job

Are you looking to work in Ealing?

Situated in the vibrant heart of West London, the London Borough of Ealing offers a truly unique service. Our skilled and diverse team includes Health Visitors, Community Staff Nurses, School and Nursery Nurses, Early Start SEND workers, Social Workers, the Family Nurse Partnership, MECSH, the Child Healthy Weight Team, an Infant Feeding Team, Maternal Mental Health practitioners, MASH Health Visitor practitioners, and Borough-based Safeguarding Advisors.

We’re proud to be UNICEF Stage 2 accredited and are eagerly preparing for our Stage 3 assessment. What’s more, we’re integrated with Ealing Local Authority and conveniently co-located in Children’s Centres throughout the borough ensuring a supportive, collaborative environment for both families and staff.

An ideal candidate will:

• Qualified (or currently training) as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN).
• Skilled in health promotion initiatives and coordinating care plans.
• Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment and up to date on recent primary care developments and health legislation
• Enthusiastic about continuous learning and delivering high-quality care.
• Organised, with strong time management and teamwork player.
• Open to development and ready to grow within a supportive leadership structure.

Working for our organisation

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse / Miwife with current UK NMC registration
• Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
• Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
• Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards

Experience

Essential criteria

• Health visiting experience
• Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
• Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
• Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
• Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
• Experience of supervising staff / students
• Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
• Experience of evidence based care

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
• Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc.)
• Current knowledge of child protection issues
• Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
• Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
• Knowledge of Personal Development Planning
• Knowledge of how equal opportunities can be implemented in practice
• Be able to identify and access sources of information to inform practice
• Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
• Knowledge of NMC
• Knowledge of clinical supervision
• Knowledge of managing difficult situations and conflict resolution
• Ability to be flexible and responsive to

Other

Essential criteria

• Able to travel round the locality[car/bike/public transport/foot]
• Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
• Able to demonstrate excellence in Customer Service

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff. 

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH. 

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

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