Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR376-0825
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ysbyty Cwm Cynon
- Town
- Mountain Ash
- Salary
- £39,263 - £47,280 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Health Visitor
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. Every role counts, every person matters, and together, we’re creating a space where everyone can thrive.
Discover more about working with us here:
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Job overview
The health visitor is responsible for a defined caseload of pre-school children and families within a geographic area or General Practice population.
The main purpose of the job includes the assessment of health need, the implementation and evaluation of health enhancing activities and the generation of information that can be utilised to influence policies that affect health.
Have freedom to practice/act within parameters and is guided within defined policies, protocols at a local and national level and by Code of Conduct.
Main duties of the job
Using own initiative and working with the deputy senior and senior nurse, develop innovative ways of working, implementing change effectively and monitoring outcomes.
Ensuring the delivery of innovative, clinically excellent evidence based child health surveillance, health promotion and other public health initiatives.
Plan, deliver and evaluate health visiting intervention working with statutory and voluntary agencies.
Work as part of the team.
Assist the deputy senior nurse, working collaboratively with other health visitors within the University Health Board to ensure the delivery of equitable, high quality services.
Communicate information in a sensitive way when dealing with issues that are sensitive and contentious.
Work collaboratively and maintain effective communication with health and other professionals to ensure the provision of a high quality preventative health service, for example primary care, local authority.
Communicate effectively with multi-agency teams, statutory and voluntary agencies; maintaining effective internal and external networks to enhance service delivery.
Actively work with partner agencies to support and maintain development of the public health approach including participating in community development and establishing links within the Local University Health Board, Health Promotion, National Public Health Service, and other local projects.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see ‘Welsh Language Guidance’ in the documents right at the bottom.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse and/or Midwife. BSc Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Community Health Studies.
Experience and skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled Practitioner embracing clinical governance and clinical effectiveness.
Desirable criteria
- Participate in the development and implementation of public health policies. Management.
- Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Welsh Language
Desirable criteria
- Level 3 or above Speaking/Listening in Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janine Phillips
- Job title
- Deputy Senior Nurse - Interim
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890983327
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