Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

·       Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

·       Ensure effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team

·       Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/understanding, e.g. child protection, bereavement, domestic violence and where english is not the first language.

2. Knowledge, training and experience

·       1st level registered general nurse

·       Qualified community public health practitioner (part 11 NMC register)

·       Specialist knowledge of safeguarding of children and adults

·       Specialist knowledge of child development and family and public health issues

·       Non-medical prescriber

·       Nurse prescribing qualification

·       Specialist mentor qualification.

·       To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.

3. Analytical and judgement skills

·       Proven ability to undertake community and client health need assessment

·       The ability to critique research and apply to practice.

4. Planning and organisational skills

·       Possess complex organisational skills including caseload management.

·       Possess complex organisational skills including caseload management delegating and organising the work of the team

·       To ensure team are aware of workload/whereabouts through use of electronic shared diaries

·       To ensure the team meet the required levels of compliance for statutory and mandatory

·       training and appraisals.

·       To co-ordinate annual leave, study leave and duty rotas.

·       Plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care.

5. Physical skills

·       Keyboard skills

·       Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools.

6. Responsibility for client care

·       To manage the caseload effectively within the resources available

·       To actively participate in the clinical governance agenda

·       To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes to ensure evidence based health education and promotion to clients

·       Independent responsibility for managing and providing an advisory health visiting service

·       To work as an independent prescriber, diagnosing and prescribing treatment for a range of childhood conditions and minor ailments on completion of appropriate training

·       Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in child protection/children in need proceedings when appropriate; this may involve managing situations where conflicting opinions are expressed

·       To ensure close collaboration with other agencies to enable robust pathway planning and service delivery in line with the client’s needs.

7. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

·       Participate in clinical supervision as per organisation policy

·       Actively participate in and support the development of evidence based practice and clinical audit in collaboration with lead professionals and managers

·       To actively participate in service or practice initiatives to improve client care standards and outcomes.

8. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

·       Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, community profiling and aid local development plans.

·       Authorised signatory for teams expenses, study leave etc.

9. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

·       Maintain professional registration by adhering to NMC requirements

·       Line manage the child development team to include recruitment, appraisals, clinical supervision, training and education, induction, rotas, sickness/absence monitoring with the support of the clinical lead child development

·       To support other staff within the team.

10. Responsibilities for information resources

·       Ensure all records are updated and safeguard client’s confidentiality within legal and ethical principles (caldicott).

11. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

·       Actively participate in and support of evidence based practice and clinical audit in collaboration with managers and lead clinicians

12. Freedom to act

·       Guided by established policies and guidelines

·       Professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work

·       Works independently as an autonomous practitioner.

13. Physical effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

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14. Mental effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

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15. Emotional effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

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16. Working conditions (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

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