Job overview

Health Visitor - Homeless/Asylum/Refugee Families - 30 hours per week

Are you a Health Visitor eager to make a real difference with the children, young people and families in Tameside?  

Our Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) Service for Health Visiting and School Nursing has a vision to improve health outcomes for our population and influence the wider determinants of health, through collaboration with the people of Tameside and Glossop and our health and care partners. We are currently progressing through an exciting service transformation in conjunction with all our team.  

Our skilled and diverse neighbourhood teams are looking for a Health Visitor who has a passion for improving the lives through public health, specifically for those families facing homelessness or seeking asylum or refugee status.

This role delivers SCPHN Health Visiting care from a designated caseload within a small team, in conjunction with and as part of the wider Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) service. The small team link with the local authority and wider partners in identifying families who face homelessness/ asylum seeking or refugee status. Following the completion of a health needs assessment and triage process, the work to support these families from a public health perspective is undertaken by the named Health Visitor or signposted to the wider 0-19 service. 

Main duties of the job

You will provide compassionate, community-based support to children, young people, and families in Tameside in Greater Manchester, helping them stay healthy. You will be responsible for a caseload of children and deliver the Healthy Child Programme within a team. To ensure children receive the best start in life and school readiness is promoted.  These families will have been identified as those who face homelessness/ asylum seeking or refugee status. Alongside another HV practitioner and a Quality support officer, you will deliver the Healthy Child Programme at a universal, targeted and specialist level, in collaboration with the wider 0-19 Service.

You will be required to lead and manage the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, working with complex cases including safeguarding. Identifying at the earliest opportunity children with Special Educational Needs and Disability - signposting and supporting children, young people and families whilst being leaders in public health.  You will work in collaboration with our neighbourhoods’ communities, voluntary and statutory agencies.

Professional development is a high priority for us, and we provide a range of training opportunities and in-house expertise that will support your professional and personal development. Successful candidates will receive safeguarding supervision and service-specific training. 

The post is based in the Tameside area only. 

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. 

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: 

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people. 

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.