Public Health Practitioner - Health Visitor

Public Health Practitioner - Health Visitor

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Due to new funding, we are excited to offer a number of new roles for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses / Health Visitors. The vacancies are across 3 locations across Stoke on Trent:
Central Locality, North locality, Southeast locality. The posts will be part of the Children’s and Families Care Group and the Universal Services function, and you will work in a variety of settings. The primary aim of the 0-19 Integrated Health Visiting and School Nursing Service is to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to children, young people and families across Stoke-on-Trent.

This is a dynamic post that requires you to work closely with uni/multi-disciplinary teams/agencies in addressing a range of care/support issues across the spectrum of conditions, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and improving the health and wellbeing of the population served. You will work alongside the Team Leaders and Professional Lead to ensure synergy across the localities. This will ensure services are delivered to a high standard that are accessible and demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion.

• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people’s care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved.

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• Associate

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care