The child & family wellbeing practitioner role is to support Health Visitors and nurses to deliver the Heathy Child Programme (0-5), to achieve positive outcomes for children and families. This includes delivery of specific elements of the programme and a focus on the high impact areas, such as infant feeding and baby massage to support maternal mental health. Please see job description attached.
Package DescriptionAs a Child & Family Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Greenways East Team, which covers Devizes, Calne, Royal Wootton Bassett and Cricklade areas. This position will cover the RWB and Cricklade area.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Starting salary of £24000 with group pension
Free tea and coffee at your base location
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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesTo carry out work with families as delegated by accountable Health Visitor and feedback outcomes.
• Supporting the facilitation of local healthy family drop ins
• Planning, delivering, and evaluating virtual health promotion sessions, facilitating discussions with groups of parents/carers
• Undertake Ages and Stages 27month reviews incorporating the Early Language Identification Measure tool
• Delivering evidence based specific "Support bundles” to families under the direction of the Health Visitor
• Ensure effective communication and appropriate information sharing with partner agencies
• To work with the Health Visitor in identifying and assessing development and growth
• To support and contribute to the identification of vulnerable children and children in need of safeguarding
The Ideal CandidateYou will have a level 3 diploma in childcare or a NNEB qualification. You will need to have a caring and approachable demeanour in order to gain the trust and respect of local families and children.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Car driver, this is a community position, where driving from home to home or base to home is a requirement.
For more information or an informal discussion please call Lucy Binney, Team Leader on 07976857832 or email lucy.binney@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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