Bank Level 6 Health Visitor

Job Description

We are recruiting Bank Health Visitors for flexible working in our Children & Families Division within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC)Children and Families Division have approved a temporary uplift in Health Visitor Bank Pay for all Health Visitors working Bank Health Visiting shifts in their division. This means that all Health Visitors working on the bank will receive the top of the Bank pay scale 6 for their shifts. Bank Health Visitors will be paid £19.06 per hour (£21.36 per hour inclusive of WTD) until further notice. Enhancements will also be paid for any unsocial hours worked during this time.A variety of shifts are available, including Evenings and Weekends.The Health Visiting service is offered City Wide, but areas of highest need will be:

Hodge Hill

Edgbaston

Quinton

Ladywood

Yardley

Sparkbrook

Erdington

Northfield

**Candidates should be aware that if shortlisted, a robust interview process will be undertaken for these posts and as such are asked to arrive at interview well informed and preparedBCHC delivers healthcare services across numerous sites and specialties. The Trust Bank covers shortfalls in staffing supporting delivery of the service.Birmingham Early Years Services are on an exciting journey following a successful tender to provide an integrated approach in delivering Health Visiting and Children’s Centre services as part of the early years offer as Birmingham Forward Steps.Birmingham is a great city working with children and families within diverse communities offering the opportunity to achieve positive impacts whilst working within integrated teams. The service is committed to delivering high quality care, with clinical supervision and local team support considered essential.The service has corporate membership of the Institute of Health Visiting thus enabling access to the latest developments and research within Health Visiting to support innovative and evolving practice.We are seeking to increase the of Health Visitors working across Birmingham, to provide the 5 mandated Healthy Child Program contacts and work as part of an integrated model.Candidates must be experienced, highly motivated and innovative whilst having a desire to achieve our service vision ‘To give every child in Birmingham an equal chance to have the best start in life so they can achieve their full potential’The service provides a learning environment, supporting students and newly qualified staff, SLAiP or equivalent is desirable.The successful candidate will be a flexible team player and role model, demonstrating willingness to work in integrated model, as part of our commitment to modernise the service in keeping with Early Intervention and Prevention agenda’s.We are recruiting dedicated, motivated individuals with excellent communication skills, sound clinical knowledge and the ability to work independently.Do you want..

To work as part of a dedicated team

To join a forward thinking, innovative organisation which puts its patients first

To contribute to the provision of high quality care

Choose your own hours to fit in with your personal circumstances on an ad-hoc basis, inclusive of weekends

The post holder must be a Registered First Level Nurse/Midwife with a Health Visitor Certificate/Diploma/Degree with evidence of recent professional development.This post requires completion of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) form. Due to recent changes in law, the DBS operate a system of ‘Single Certification’ whereby only a copy of the certificate/disclosure is issued to candidates and not to BCHC as the employer. You are advised that upon receipt of the DBS certificate/disclosure, you are required to provide the original copy to a member of the Recruitment Team. Failure to do so will result in the Trust being unable to process your application and your conditional offer may be withdrawn.For further details / informal visits contact:David Preston, Recruitment Officer onIMPORTANT

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Be Part of Our Team...Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in peoples homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.