Community Public Health Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a Community Public Health Nurse to work in the Dartford Health Visiting Team. The Health Visiting service operates an open access service to children and families within home, community and primary care settings to promote a healthy lifestyle within the local population giving particular attention to the identified health needs of the locality, and target groups such as children 0-5 years, and vulnerable families. To address inequalities in health,  through participation, collaboration, empowerment and primary care, the Health Visiting service will deliver the agreed range of planned universal services, assess health needs, identify vulnerability and deliver targeted interventions to meet the needs of children and their families/ carers.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of the Health Visiting Service  you will support the delivery of the Health Child Programme in accordance with national and local strategy/guidance, a key part of your role will be to  undertake universal and targeted assessments, mandated well-being reviews and packages of care in line with evidence- based practice, recognising when to escalate concerns to the appropriate qualified Health Visitor or District Manager.

You will play a vital role in promoting and protecting the public’s health and this might be achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing the likelihood of ill-health, or preventing illness through immunisations or screening interventions or identifying needs requiring more specialist intervention. Under the supervision of the Health Visitor you will participate in a universal core service, and deliver targeted interventions, to address health inequalities by: • Working with clients in a variety of community settings e.g. home, clinic, children’s centre,   educational establishment etc. • Undertake Family Health Needs assessments in line with the Healthy Child Programme and according to local guidelines in various community settings as required, reporting back on any ensuing health problems. • Working with the team to implement and prioritise planned programmes of health promotion, education and advice on all aspects of prevention of ill health to individuals, families and groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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