Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?
If so, East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team!
We have a several vacancies for a Health Visitor within Cambridgeshire: 1 full-time position in Huntingdon, 1 full-time position in St Ives / St Neots and 1 part-time position in St Ives / St Neots.
East of England Community Health and Care are able to offer:
A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count
The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills
Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies, ensuring the best outcomes for children and families
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 30th June 2026
To work as part of a team leading the 0–19 Healthy Child Programme. The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities.
Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care.
They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory and voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes.
Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within the Cambridgeshire.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the East of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to identify the health needs of children and young people, their families and the community and contribute to developing a strategy to address individual identified needs as well as those needs within the community
To use knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care.
To identify health needs within a geographical corporate caseload/ community.
To clinically triage the Single Point of Access (SPA) as required in accordance with agreed procedures.
Promote local and national public health priorities.
Respond to health needs assessments by referring to other professionals (e.g. GP’s, consultants, speech and language therapists), and statutory and voluntary agencies (e.g. social care, housing, HomeStart).
To work with the Locality Lead to support children, young people and families who are considered to be vulnerable or at risk. To adhere to current safeguarding procedures, and participate in child protection case conferences and case review meetings as required.
Participate in all statutory processes in respect of safeguarding including provision of witness statements, court reports and court attendance.
Undertake programmes of care in partnership with parents, foster parents and other agencies, designed to safeguard children and minimise risk.
Identify children with special educational needs and disability and facilitate support and referrals to maximise developmental potential. Act as a key worker when indicated, ensuring effective, efficient and appropriate care plans.
To provide cover for colleagues as requested by your manager.
To plan evidence-based health promotion programmes, order resources, compile teaching plans with aims, objectives and outcomes, and evaluate the sessions.
Actively promote community participation and work within a community development / capacity building framework within a multi-agency context.
To act as a health link for other agencies, e.g. Children Centres, GPs, voluntary services, public and private agencies and work closely with partner agencies to promote the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families
Demonstrate reflective and evidence-based practice and use this to influence strategy and policy development.
To be competent as a non-medical prescriber maintaining NMC registration and competencies if holds qualification.
To hold a special interest role and support other staff within the locality and service.
To link practice with local and national targets and deliver public health programmes based on current priorities and targets.
To contribute to the development of local policies and procedures relevant to their area of work.
To take responsibility for their own clinical practice including clinical supervision and to adhere to the NMC code of conduct.
To actively participate in reflective practice development through annual clinical observations.
To maintain live mentor status and contribute to a learning environment for SCPHN’s, return to practice SCPHN’s, new staff members and pre-registration students.
Communication
To communicate complex and sensitive information concerning the child or young person’s condition to the child’s parents/carers and young person. Able to communicate effectively using appropriate methods and recognising barriers to communication.
To communicate within the multi-disciplinary team and model effective team working and communication skills, supporting change within the service.
To develop links with children’s centres, schools and other agencies involved in promoting children’s well-being.
To work closely with other professional teams and key stakeholders including service users, statutory and non-statutory organisations.
To act as first line response to complaints working within national and corporate guidelines.
To contribute to the training of students of nursing and other disciplines, during community experience programmes.
Budgetary Responsibility
To maintain stock control.
To demonstrate responsible use of resources, with an awareness of budgetary restraints.
To ensure health monitoring equipment is operating to a high standard, maintained and calibrated.
Take responsibility to minimise incurred expenditure e.g. Mileage, telephone calls use of stationary etc.
People Management
To ensure appropriate delegation, allocation and supervision of work and packages of care to the skill mix team. To include caseload support, monitoring and counter signing records on completion of the allocated intervention work.
To contribute to the training of students of nursing and other disciplines, during community experience programmes.
Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process.
To delegate work to other members of the team related to their capabilities and competencies, ensuring there is clarity regarding the feedback mechanisms.
Research & Development Activity
Contributes to clinical audit and research highlighting unmet needs within the practice population.
Contributes to the maintenance of the Health Profile of the practice population.
Clinical and Practice Governance
Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes.
The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with the NMC, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by East of England Community Health and Care N HS Trust .
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with NMC, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
The post holder must participate in clinical and safeguarding audits as required.
Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team
Participate in reflective/ clinical supervision on a regular basis.
Participate and lead caseload review within the locality.
The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
To write records in a concise, accurate and timely manner in line with East of England Community Health and Care N HS Trust ‘Record Keeping Policy’.
To participate in clinical pathway developments and service improvements.
