A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.
Do you want to make a difference?
Service/Ward/Department Summary:
Are you a Health Visitor? If so why not come and join our friendly and professional team in Heywood, Middleton or Rochdale.
Our Health Visiting service is looking for an enthusiastic Health Visitor to join us and are seeking to employ a non case holding, Parenting Health Visitor to deliver the parenting support expectations of the Family Hubs and start for life programme.
The post holder will be expected to provide a universal and targeted offer which will help make the transition to parenthood as smooth as possible and which stresses the importance of sensitive, responsive caregiving. This package will comprise of a broad universal support service alongside more targeted evidence-based programmes to be made available for parents/carers with further needs
The post holder will be required to work as part of a team based in one location within HMR but will be required to work within family hubs and other locations across Heywood, Middleton and Heywood.
We work in partnership with the local authority and health services and are piloting new and innovative ways of working. We strongly encourage creativity and new ideas
Role Summary:
• Develop & deliver virtual and physical antenatal parent education in family hubs & local community across the borough.
• Lead, coordinate and implement a multi-agency antenatal education offer to be delivered across the family hubs face to face and digitally.
• Develop communications to promote the offer across the borough in line with the Family hubs communications strategy.
• Engage expectant parents from under-served/seldom heard groups across the borough in antenatal & parent craft education.
• Support with the Alignment of antenatal online resources with Our Rochdale website and Essential Parenting to enable signposting to one place for all families needing help and support.
• Work with a multi-agency group to develop and embed referral pathways for parenting support for new and expectant parents.
• Monitor, evaluate and produce data reports, demonstrating the impact/outcome & user satisfaction of the antenatal services and interventions.
• Raise awareness across the multiagency workforce in relation to the antenatal offer for families including the VSCE/faith sector.
• Work flexibly out of hours to meet the needs of families – which may include evenings, weekends.
• As a member of the Integrated Children’s services in Rochdale, the post holder is expected to contribute to the expectations of the Borough’s Children and Young Peoples Partnership Strategy and the Early Help Strategy.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website:https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/
At NCA we care passionately about the experience our staff, patients and service users receive day in, day out. As a service we encourage learning & development and support champion and link roles in areas such as: breastfeeding, infant feeding disorders, SEND, perinatal mental health, blood spot screening, CONI (care of next infant) and offer cascade training opportunities so you can specialise and grow in an area that interests you.
Being a nurse with us is special and challenging in equal measure. As part of our close-knit, multi-disciplinary team, you’ll always feel looked after and supported as you develop and progress in your career. And, due to the size, scale and scope of the Northern Care Alliance Group, there’ll be more opportunity for career growth than you ever imagined.
At the heart of our NCA family are you, our leaders and our staff. We want to make sure we’re supporting you and your teamsthrough our SCARF scheme to come to work happy, healthy and able to deliver excellent care for our patients and service users.
This is the place where…
• We will provide you with the Support you need to be happy and healthy both at work and at home
• We Care about you and your wellbeing and we will encourage an environment in which our people feel looked after
• We will Assist you and provide you with all the skills you need to do your job to the best of your ability
• We Recognise your commitment, dedication and hard work and we will celebrate that
• You are more than just a colleague, you are part of the NCA Family and we will nurture a culture of kindness and compassion at all of our care organisations, teams and services
We want every member of staff to have a positive experience and feel they belong to the NCA family, enjoy being at work and able to give their best to care for patients and service users.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Mar 2024
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