Band 6 Health Visitor
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands (GB)
- Salary
- £26,565 to £35,577 plus premia of £2,500
- Closing date
- 20 Mar 2019
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- Sector
- Acute Care Nursing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Job Reference: 820-1427291-CF-C
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £26,565 to £35,577 plus premia of £2,500
Thank you for your interest in Birmingham Community Healthcare. We are an ambitious organisation with big plans to deliver our early years services differently.
Our aspiration jointly with our children centre partners is to give the children of Birmingham the very best start in life. We have a passionate workforce who is committed to support the children and their families to feel safe, healthy and ready to achieve.
Under the umbrella of Birmingham Forward Steps with our partners we are working to offer an integrated service to children and families where they tell their story once and we work closely together to deliver the best outcomes possible and support families with their aspirations.
Although we are proud of the progress we are making we recognise we have much more to do.
Are you the right person to help us take our ambitions forward and help us to develop a brighter future for the children of Birmingham?
We are looking to recruit Health Visitors with a passion for delivering high quality services whilst embracing and expressing innovation and creative thinking to help us to deliver our ambitious plans.
This is an exciting opportunity to help us develop and implement our integrated way of working with our children’s centre partners.
To ensure we recruit ambitious, forward thinking individuals we are offering an additional premia of £2,500 (payable in 3 instalments over 2 years subject to terms and conditions (pro rata for part-time) for Health Visitors to join and stay with us on our journey over the coming years.
If you are a Health Visitor looking to join a thriving, innovative service that puts children at the heart of everything we do then this is the role for you.
We have posts available in Yardley, Hodge Hill and other districts within Birmingham
Full-time, Part-time, Job share and flexible working options are available.
For an informal discussion or further information please contact Operational Managers Karen Thewlis or Helen Dolman on 0121 466 6224. We look forward to welcoming you to join us in this adventure.
For more information and to apply please visit our website by clicking on the apply button.
Company
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) is a large specialist provider of community healthcare with a track record of delivery. Our colleagues provide services to people across Birmingham and the West Midlands, including many of the most vulnerable in our communities.
Our strategy sets out a refreshed - and ambitious - vision to provide the Best Care to people in Healthy Communities; with new organisational values and four strategic objectives that set our priorities so that we continue to improve both for our colleagues and the people we serve.
With 4,500 colleagues and an annual turnover of £280m, BCHC is one of the largest specialist providers of community health services in the NHS. We deliver services to the 1.2 million residents of Birmingham, as well as some services in the Black Country and the wider West Midlands, from our five main clinical divisions:
- Adult Community Services;
- Adult Specialist and Rehabilitation services;
- Children and Families;
- Learning Disabilities;
- Dental.
Services for Adults: The Trust offers a wide variety of services for adults and has seven inpatient sites throughout Birmingham including Moseley Hall Hospital, West Heath Hospital, Sheldon Unit (Northfield), CU27 at Good Hope Hospital, Ann Marie Howes (Sheldon), Norman Power Centre (Ladywood) and Perry Tree Centre (Kingstanding).
Services for Children, Young People and Families: A wide range of accessible and responsive universal and specialist services are provided for children, young people and families in homes, schools and clinics across Birmingham. As part of our universal services, every child is supported from pre-birth to five years old by our health visiting teams. Our nurses in mainstream and specialist schools then provide continuing health checks, immunisations and support. For children with additional developmental needs, specialist support is provided in families' homes and in child development centres across the city.
Learning Disability Services: The learning disability service provide healthcare for people aged 19 and over with learning disabilities living in the community. The service aims to provide high quality care through multidisciplinary working and close collaboration with other agencies. The learning disability service works across Birmingham, in which 23,800 (2.3 per cent of the 1.1 million population) have a learning disability.
Rehabilitation: Specialist rehabilitation services are mainly provided at two sites -West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and at Moseley Hall Hospital. A wide range of services are provided for people living in all parts of the West Midlands to assist them in managing disabilities. The comprehensive range of services is for people with physical, cognitive, emotional and social disabilities. All services are provided by teams of clinical professionals and support staff who aim to provide personalised, integrated services that best meet the needs of individual patients and their carers.
Our Values
- Caring
- Open
- Respectful
- Responsible
- Inclusive
Our Strategic Objectives
- Safe, High Quality Care
- A Great Place to Work
- Integrated Care in Communities
- Making Good use of Resources
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