Specialist Health Visitor for refugees and Asylum seekers

Job Introduction

We are seeking a highly motivated Band 6 Health Visitor to join our team and make a difference in the lives of families in our community.

This is a Fixed Term, Part Time role with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.

As a Band 6 Health Visitor, specialising in the care of Refugee and Asylum Seeker families, you will be working specifically within the South Ribble team and be responsible for the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to children residing within the refugee and asylum seeker community.

Main Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• To deliver individualised care and support to refugees and asylum seeker community.
• To assist in developing and monitoring the quality of Health Visiting practice to support the provision of a first-class service, by contributing to the development and review of quality and outcome measures and performance indicators
• To identify and assess health, growth and development in babies and children and to advise and refer appropriately
• Provide effective skilled communication of sensitive issues, counselling, and reassurance to
• Identify areas for audit and development relevant to asylum seekers and refugees participate in research and clinical audit programmes as required.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a qualified Health Visitor with a SCPHN (specialist community public health nursing) qualification and be passionate about ensuring all families in your local community receive the highest level of care and have access to the relevant paths of support. Specialist knowledge and experience in relation to asylum seekers and refugees is required.

A full UK driving licence is required for this role and access to a vehicle.

For more information please contact Tracey Mckenzie at tracey.mckenzie@hcrgcaregroup.com

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.

Package Description

As a Health Visitor, you’ll be part of a valued team at our Lancashire 0-19 service.

You will feel valued as a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• 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
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• 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
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• 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
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission