Bank Health Visitor

Job overview

BANK Health Visitor Band 6

Are you a passionate and motivated Health Visitor looking for flexible working opportunities? We are seeking a Bank Band 6 Health Visitor to join our dedicated team, delivering high-quality, family-centred care across community settings.

About the Role As a Bank Band 6 Health Visitor, you will play a key role in promoting the health and wellbeing of children and families. Working flexibly across services, you will contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of a modern and innovative health visiting service.

Main duties of the job

  • Plan, organise, and evaluate an effective and forward-thinking health visiting service, ensuring high standards of care are consistently achieved
  • Deliver skilled, evidence-based interventions to children and families in a range of community settings, including homes, clinics, and partner agencies
  • Delegate appropriately to members of the health visiting team to ensure a coordinated and efficient service
  • Work collaboratively with healthcare professionals, social care teams, and community partners to provide seamless and integrated car
  • Contribute to the achievement of Quality Strategy objectives through active engagement with team colleagues and service improvement initiatives

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification:

Skills

Essential

  • Knowledge of recent developments in primary care
  • Knowledge of current health and social care agenda relevant to area of work and professional practice
  • Knowledge of current health legislation [including Change for Children agenda, Children’s Plan etc.)
  • Current knowledge of child protection issues
  • Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills
  • Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
  • Knowledge of NMC Code

Experience

Essential

  • Health visiting experience
  • Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
  • Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
  • Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
  • Experience of assessing, planning and implementing programmes of care and writing care plans
  • Experience in providing practice based learning support to others
  • Experience of evidence based care
  • Experience of supervising staff / students

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse / Midwife with current UK NMC registration
  • Registered Health Visitor (SCPHN)
  • Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
  • Practice assessor/supervisor training or working towards
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