Specialist Health Visitor (1001 Critical Days & Solihull Approach)

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Are you an innovative Health Visitor, passionate about the 1001 Critical Days agenda and ensuring that babies receive the best start in life? Are you experienced in using the Solihull Approach and competent in your knowledge of how this supports Infant Mental Health? Are you looking for a new leadership challenge? Read on….

This exciting new Specialist Health Visitor role is funded specifically until March 2025 to progress with Newcastle’s commitment to 1001 Critical Days and to ensure that we meet the criteria needed as set out within the Department for Education’s Start for Life Offer.

Although you will work within a fabulous skill mix team in our 0-19 service who thrive on producing excellence, this Health Visitor Specialist role requires that the post holder is able to work independently and at speed. We are looking for someone with drive, commitment, and specialist knowledge to work strategically with multiple agencies across the city.

• Interview Date Monday, 29 January 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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The Newcastle 1001 Critical Days network reports through its’ Think Tank, to the Early Intervention Forum and the post holder will be the systems lead for the city in promoting this agenda including supporting the wider workforce therefore a sound evidential and practical knowledge of this is essential.

The post holder will be supported by the Think Tank to ensure that the work is joined up across the city and develop the annual conference using the identified theme.

The post holder will use their Specialist knowledge around the 1001 Critical days and Infant Mental Health to promote training, education and develop webinars to support multi agency work around the city. They will work and develop an overall joint strategy with peri-natal pathways.

The Community Hub has made a commitment to using the Solihull Approach within all areas of delivery and the post holder will take a lead to ensure that there is consistent training tailored to the needs of a variety of roles across the city.

We will be looking for someone who can demonstrate strategic thinking who is familiar with systems leadership approach. You will need to be excited about the Solihull Approach and its applications for use in relation to supporting Infant Mental Health. Keen to deliver multi-agency training around this and share the passion with other people.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.