Are you searching for a role that offers variety, growth, and support? As a Band 6 Health Visitor, you’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering the Healthy Child Programme.
You’ll work closely with families to create tailored support plans and collaborate with partners like paediatricians, speech and language therapists, and dietitians to achieve the best outcomes for children.
Our Healthy Family Teams are built on collaboration—with the community, for the community. You’ll find clear visibility of senior leadership, a hands-on approach from management (yes, even our Managing Director!), and a genuine platform for your voice and ideas to shine.
Working in Surrey means being part of a close-knit team with access to fantastic resources and strong professional networks. Together, we’re striving to improve health outcomes for every child and family we serve.
Package DescriptionJoin Our Team as a Band 6 Health Visitor
Are you ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and families? We’re looking for compassionate and dedicated Health Visitors to join our Health Visiting Team in Surrey.
Here, you will not only find a rewarding role but also a community that values and supports you every step of the way.
When you join our team, you’ll enjoy a host of benefits designed with your wellbeing and career growth in mind:
A Band 6 salary, plus NHS pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
Access to My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on groceries, cashback, and vouchers for life’s little treats.
The ability to access your pay as you earn it, offering flexibility for life’s unexpected moments.
Comprehensive support for your mental and physical wellbeing, from recipes and activity challenges to counselling, legal advice, and career coaching.
Learning opportunities galore, with bespoke career pathways and continuous professional development through our “Outstanding” training team, The Learning Enterprise.
A culture where your ideas matter, supported by an annual £100,000 innovation fund to bring them to life
Main Responsibilities
Public health lead for the health visiting skill mixed team within the defined population/locality area. Delivering the Universal Partnership Plus reach of the Healthy Child Programme, assessing health needs and identifying and implementing appropriate interventions for a personalised or targeted response utilising the skills of and delegating to the skill mix team in an outcome-focused context.
To take responsibility for the outcomes of the children on a child protection plan within the defined population and collaborate with key partners to address identified public health needs.
Develop and foster effective professional relationships and networks with families and other key partners.
Provide families and children on a child protection plan with a service that promotes their physical, mental, emotional health and wellbeing. This will include partnership working with other agencies.
To promote health and wellbeing through the universal reach of the healthy child programme and signposting. Referring/introducing to partner agencies as required.
To contribute to multi-agency assessment of children and families and take on lead professional role where appropriate.
To co-manage a caseload within a team of other health visitors acting autonomously and taking responsibility for the outcomes of those allocated for assessment, intervention and management.
Understanding the concept of clinical governance and safeguarding. Using this knowledge and skills to identify, assess and safeguard vulnerable children and families.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal CandidateWe’d love to hear from you if:
Essential
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification
Current NMC registration on third part of the register
Experience in leading and working in health visiting teams
Experience in leading interventions to improve outcomes and safeguard children and families
Qualification in practice supervising/assessing for nurse learners
Working knowledge of the tools and progammes used in health visiting to improve outcomes for children.
Ability to work with electronic health records and with IT systems
Desirable
Qualification in leadership and innovative practice
Experience in line management and developing teams
Experience of presenting policy and outcomes to commissioners and partners
Experience of goal setting and managing interventions to meet outcomes.
Other requirements: Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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