Health Visitor

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Contribute to the development of induction and mentorship of all new staff.

Enable pre and post registration students to meet their learning objectives by providing appropriate learning opportunity.

Train staff, parents and carers in implementing programmes of care where required.

Deliver health promotion packages in a variety of settings.

Undertake mandatory training provided by the UHB and other agencies.

Work with team leader and others to initiate and participate in practice development.

Coordinate the safe transfer of care of children, young people and their families within the caseload ensuring effective communication with colleagues and families.

Participate in public health immunisation campaigns, for example, Swine Flu, MMR.

Produce risk assessments prior to home visiting.

Regularly evaluate own professional practice and maintain expertise including participation in reflective practice and clinical supervision.

Work unsupervised as a lone worker carrying out initial assessments with possibly little or no knowledge of client or home circumstances.  Every effort would be made to gather information for a risk assessment prior to visit.

Assess and prioritise specific health needs and facilitate group work.

Work across professional boundaries contributing to the identification of need, assessment and risk in vulnerable children and their families.

Use analytical and judgement skills in the assessment process when supplementary prescribing is undertaken from a limited formulary.

Working as specialist in child development and assessing children and young people.

Analyse and compare a range of clinical advice or treatment options in line with the latest research evidence.

Negotiate individual health care plans with service users assessing and evaluating care to ensure the agreed outcomes are adequately met.

Identify children in need, or at risk of abuse, and take action according to the agreed procedures.

Prioritise visits ie. child protection, domestic abuse, neglect associated with alcohol, drug misuse and/or mental health issues.

Design, deliver and evaluate group clinical teaching programmes.

Analyse existing practice, identify new ways of working and implement change within the service.

Specific observational skills to identify non/verbal communication indicators.

Uses computer/IT equipment to record and receive client information, generate child protection and other reports and to prepare training presentations.

Effective keyboard skills.

Skills concomitant with the health visiting/school nursing role for training purposes.

Undertake immunisations as required.

Prescribe treatments within the parameters of the limited formulary ensuring they are clinically cost effective whilst adhering to the University Health Board’s Non-Medical Prescribing Policy and Good Practice Guidelines.

Empower children and families allowing them to make informed choices regarding health care interventions.

Participate in providing programmes of intervention regarding health issues of concern in conjunction with members of the Primary Care/Practice Based team.

Act on own initiative to differentiate appropriately between those issues which need to be referred to others for a decision from the issues upon which the post holder can exercise appropriate decision making.

Escalating concerns related to performance to the deputy senior nurse or more senior nurse.

Voicing concerns if concerned with standards or practices within their workplace.

Participate in 1:1 supervision and clinical supervision of caseload and wider professional development.

Provide mentorship for pre registration students and support post registration student placements.

Work with the deputy senior nurse  to ensure the development of induction and mentorship of all new staff.

Allocate work to support staff as required within own caseload.

Contribute to proposed change and support implementation of policies for own area of work.

Identification and implementation of evidence based practice.

Act in accordance with legal or statutory regulations in relation to practice and comply with policies and procedures.

Uphold and comply with vulnerable adult and child protection procedure.

Participate in the University Health Boards clinical governance quality improvement activities including clinical incident reporting, clinical audit, risk management and changes in practice as appropriate.

Comply with the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and related UHB Health & Safety Policy.

Responsibly use University Health Board resource.

Maintain accurate individual patient records in accordance with the NMC guidelines and University Health Board policy having regard to confidentiality and safekeeping.

Provide statistical information by electronically recording daily activity.

Provide information as requested by the deputy senior manager , the Locality/University Health Board e.g. caseload profiles, breast feeding and immunisation rates, unmet need.

Monitor own standards of service delivery

Maintain accurate records of all service related activity.

Contribute to clinical audit and research activity, promoting a positive attitude towards the implementation of evidence-based practice.

Contribute to the development, implementation and audit of policies, guidelines and procedures ensuring practice is evidence based.

Assist in identifying opportunities for developing the service provided to the local population in liaison with the Team Leader & Senior Nurse.

Assist in the development of and deliver specific and relevant teaching programs for disciplines within scope of practice.

Support, the development of clinical competencies of staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Maintain accurate records and provide necessary data for statistical analysis.

Implement research findings appropriate to practice.

Raise quality issues and report related risks within the UHB to address poor standards and incidents.

Manage a defined health visiting caseload.

Demonstrate good organisational skills with responsibility for ensuring efficient and effective use of resources.

Attend team meetings and wider University Health Board meetings.

Act as a role model to ensure the maintenance of high standards of care.

Assist in the development of and implement health promotion Programmes with families and groups in the community.

Accept referrals from other agencies and refer to other professionals and organisations as appropriate.

Work in partnership with statutory and third sector organisations in planning, delivering and evaluating care with the specific aim of improving long term outcomes of children and families.

Identify, implement and evaluate new initiatives.

Working with others, plan and organise new community developments and health promotion initiatives as per local health need.

Initiate and coordinate specialist community groups eg. parenting Webster Stratton, healthy eating/child safety.

Working with the deputy senior nurse and others, plan and organise education and training with other agencies such as schools, youth clubs and community first co-ordinator.

Make presentations to other professionals on a variety of health topics.

Coordinate multi-disciplinary meetings.

Organise and participate in the delivery of care ensuring continuity, consistency and quality using complex, sensitive and/or contentious information.

Contribute to the development of induction and mentorship of all new staff.

Enable pre and post registration students to meet their learning objectives by providing appropriate learning opportunity.

Train staff, parents and carers in implementing programmes of care where required.

Deliver health promotion packages in a variety of settings.

Undertake mandatory training provided by the UHB and other agencies.

Work with team leader and others to initiate and participate in practice development.

Coordinate the safe transfer of care of children, young people and their families within the caseload ensuring effective communication with colleagues and families.

Responsible for the delivery of high quality evidenced based care within the defined caseload and Public Health initiatives with the wider team.

Voicing concerns if concerned with standards or practices within their workplace.

Participate in 1:1 supervision and clinical supervision of caseload and wider professional development.

Provide mentorship for pre registration students and support post registration student placements.

Work with the deputy senior nurse  to ensure the development of induction and mentorship of all new staff.

Allocate work to support staff as required within own caseload.

Contribute to proposed change and support implementation of policies for own area of work.

Identification and implementation of evidence based practice.

Act in accordance with legal or statutory regulations in relation to practice and comply with policies and procedures.

Uphold and comply with vulnerable adult and child protection procedure.

Participate in the University Health Boards clinical governance quality improvement activities including clinical incident reporting, clinical audit, risk management and changes in practice as appropriate.

Comply with the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and related UHB Health & Safety Policy.

Responsibly use University Health Board resource.

Maintain accurate individual patient records in accordance with the NMC guidelines and University Health Board policy having regard to confidentiality and safekeeping.

Provide statistical information by electronically recording daily activity.

Provide information as requested by the deputy senior manager , the Locality/University Health Board e.g. caseload profiles, breast feeding and immunisation rates, unmet need.

Monitor own standards of service delivery