Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Health Visitor/midwife to take on a leadership role and join the new Pre and Post Birth Multiagency Team. The team will work jointly with Children's Social Care to offer an enhanced health visiting service throughout the antenatal period until 1yr post birth. The team will be co-located within Lynton House in Ilford to ensure good multi agency working.
The post holder will be a Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) Health Visitor and Midwife. The post holder will lead the health element of the multiagency team based within Redbridge local authority to support mother’s, father’s and babies during the antenatal and postnatal period up to baby’s first birthday.
The post holder will support the development of the pre and post birth multiagency team, working with the local authority. They will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
The post holder will work within the wider senior leadership team to deliver the vision of the Trust to provide a quality led service, which is best in class and helps Babies, Children, Young People (BCYP) and their families to live and achieve the lives they want.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for ensuring the team is working to an agreed framework.
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
- To ensure that Healthy Child Programme mandated checks are maintained for designated caseload.
- To deputise when required in the operational leads absence and delegate appropriately to the team.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
- To supervise pre-registration students.
- To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
- To ensure that a strengths based approach is applied when working with families.
- To be responsible and effectively manage the budget related to the team.
- To influence service development resulting from audits and feedback.
- To deputise for the 8b Head of Service where required.
- To be an autonomous practitioner, with the ability to make decisions to benefit the service. ·
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – SCPHN Health Visitor and Midwife
- To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
- To offer expert skills and knowledge to ensure plans of care are developed that meet the complex health, emotional, social and psychological needs of the baby and parents.
- To offer expert health knowledge within the multiagency team.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.