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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To consistently demonstrate in all relationships with families, colleagues and partner professionals, the BCHC Trust Values and the 6 Cs of nursing of commitment, competence, courage, communication, compassion and care in the role of Health Visitor. To develop a workload profile identifying those groups within the population with specific health needs.
2. To work closely with the primary health care team, participating in activities that address the health needs of the general practice case load, families using local children’s centres early education clusters, and other health partners.
3. To deliver the health child programme through compassionate caring assessment and analysis of need, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care using assessment tools in accordance with commissioner service specification for the health visiting service order to address identified health need. To use the common assessment framework to assess and plan with families where multiagency partnership working is required.
4. To formulate and agree with families packages of care appropriate to need, where necessary opening active health and well being files. To monitor all open files in accordance with the records management policy, closing when package of care is complete.
5. To carry out health promotion and disease prevention activities, meeting and reporting on agreed key performance indicators where appropriate.
6. To give evidence based advice on health issues to members of the local population in a way which promotes behavioural change and builds on strengths.
7. To work to current NICE guidelines on antenatal and postnatal mental health to identify, support and referral of women at risk of developing postnatal depression, and those who are mild to moderately depressed.
8. To maintain quality standards of care using audit and other monitoring systems to evaluate the service.
9. To identify vulnerable children in need of protection and refer to Social Care and Health following the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board policies in all cases of suspected or actual emotional, physical, sexual abuse and neglect. To follow up domestic violence notifications in line with Trust policy.
10. To attend team around the family meetings, case conferences, undertake and fulfil the responsibilities that are appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor as agreed in the multiagency child protection plan.
11. Work in partnership with families to plan and arrange appointments for clinics and home visits.
12. To develop and maintain effective working relationships with the families, primary healthcare team and other professionals working in both the statutory and voluntary organisations.
13. To ensure all equipment used by professionals in clinic settings are maintained and fit for purpose.
14. To order equipment for client use as identified following a healthcare assessment. To advise on safe fitting and appropriate use.
15. To promote and support immunisation programmes offered nationally to service users.
16. To enter all data required on the data collection system accurately and on time according to Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust policy.
17. To attend and actively participate in staff meetings including multi-agency steering groups etc and take responsibility for completion of appropriate tasks arising from any such meeting e.g. commenting on, and having input into policy development and standard setting within HV remit.
18. To ensure all written records are kept to the required NMC standard, to be able to write letters of referral to other services and to produce complex reports for court hearings relating to child protection.
19. To deal with and support families through difficult family situations such as illness, domestic violence, bereavement and child protection.
20. To have ongoing responsibility for the management of a caseload, including electronic recording, data inputting and reports.
21. To provide professional advice on issues relating to Health Visiting and promote an understanding of health needs among other agencies.
22. To supervise, mentor and assess pre-registration student nurses on placement with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust where appropriate as part of their education programme. To provide mentoring for other healthcare students, including health visitor students.
23. To access safeguarding, caseload and clinical supervision in order to ensure a resilient workforce which prioritises excellent safe, compassionate care.
24. To participate in Nurse prescribing – undertaking a full assessment of minor conditions appropriate to the role of the Health Visitor, and where indicated prescribe from the formulary appropriate to level of training, and access continuing professional development in prescribing.
25. To convey complex information to other professionals and to clients and to work with other professionals and clients in difficult circumstances such as child protection, terminal illness or bereavement.
26. To plan, organise and run clinics/group

BCHC fully supports a positive work life balance and currently has Health Visitor vacancies for full-time and part-time opportunities with flexible working hours.