Job Introduction
Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We’re looking for a Healthy Family Practitioner to join our friendly and dedicated Lancashire 0–19 Health Visiting Team based in Pendle Ribble Valley, where you’ll play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families across the area.
This is a part-time fixed-term opportunity working 30 hours per week with a planned start date of 01/09/26 – 31/08/27.
What you'll be doing:
Your responsibilities will include:
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Carrying out delegated mandated health reviews, including Pre‑1 Year and 2–2.5‑Year Developmental Checks
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Identifying children who may need additional support and referring into specialist services
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Providing targeted support on areas such as behaviour management, infant feeding, and other delegated packages of care
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Working closely with parents and carers to support child development and wellbeing
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Supporting the delivery of Bump, Birth & Beyond sessions across the East locality (5.30–7.30pm)
What we're looking for:
You’ll be someone who is compassionate, proactive, and able to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
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NNEB qualification or equivalent (e.g. BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing, NVQ Level 3 Childcare & Education, Foundation Degree in Early Years/Education)
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Experience in health promotion or public health activities
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Team working experience
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Awareness of safeguarding and child protection
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Strong understanding of child development and parenting
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Flexible approach to meet service needs
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Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team
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Accurate record keeping and ability to maintain high standards of documentation
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Ability to contribute to audit and research
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Competence in creating and implementing family‑centred action plans
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Strong written and verbal communication skills
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IT literacy, including local and web‑based systems
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Commitment to continuous learning and development
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Understanding of clinical governance
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Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
Who you are:
You’re passionate about the wellbeing and development of children. You thrive in a team environment, embrace flexibility, and are motivated by making a positive difference to families across Lancashire.
Why join us?
As a Healthy Family Practitioner with HCRG Care Group, you’ll be part of a supportive, forward‑thinking team focused on clinical excellence and high‑quality care. Your work will have a meaningful impact through:
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Facilitating parenting groups
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Providing 1:1 guidance to families
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Supporting children to achieve their potential
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Helping our service users – and our staff – truly feel the difference we make
Every day is varied, rewarding, and full of opportunities to grow.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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A salary of £27, 674 with access to our group pension
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Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We 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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
