We are looking for Student Health Visitors to join us!
Are you a reflective, dedicated and dynamic Nurse or Midwife, and looking to train as a Health Visitor where you can make a real difference to children, families, and communities? Then we would love to hear from you!
At HCRG Care Group we are offering a 1-year full-time course through the University of the West of England. You will gain vital hands-on practical experience and key theoretical knowledge through a 50/50 split. Training is a combination of clinical learning and study in both practice placements and university.
You will be based at our St Martin's Hospital location in Bath and work across BaNES.
This course is a level 6/7 where you will receive SCPHN Health Visitor qualification and is delivered by esteemed University of the West of England. The course will commence on the first week of September 2024.
Package DescriptionAs a Student Health Visitor, you’ll be part of our valued team in BaNES.
You will feel valued as a Student Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£28,407 - £34,581 AfC Salary (up to top of Band 5 salary depending on experience) pay including NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Free parking at base
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesAs a Student SCPHN Health Visitor you will play a vital role in ensuring that every child gets the best possible start in life and develop the skills to lead the Healthy Child programme.
You will work with families to identify health needs in children 0-4 years as early as possible!
Your practice placement will facilitate practice learning enabling you to apply the theoretical knowledge and acquire the skills to ensure high quality, evidence-based assessment, delivery, and evaluation of care in relation to child/family need and the protection of children.
The course runs for 52 weeks with 7 weeks annual leave. The annual leave is set by the university and non-negotiable.
Upon completion of the course you will be registered as a SCPHN whereupon you will be eligible to apply for Band 6 Health Visitor roles.
The Ideal CandidateAt HCRG Care group, our approach to delivering health and social care services is innovative, refreshing and above all caring. We are committed to putting patient and service user care first and we are looking for dedicated professionals who share our values and our passion for delivering quality care.
You will have:
Registration with NMC as a nurse or midwives
Nursing or Midwifery degree qualifications
A passion to improve the outcomes of local families
The ability to travel across Bath and North East Somerset to meet both the educational and clinical requirements of the course
A valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
Successful applicants must have a Nursing or Midwifery honors degree at 2:2 or above to access the PG Dip
Please note that if candidates have already completed the SCPHN course you would not be eligible for this position
If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Mandy Dams at mandy.dams@hcrgcaregroup.com
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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