Student Health Visitor

Our Health Visiting service are looking for passionate and committed Student Health Visitors to join the Family Health and Lifestyles Team in Coventry. South Warwickshire Foundation Trust provides the Family Health and Lifestyles services which includes School Nursing, Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Be active be healthy, Stop Smoking Services and MAMTA. Family Health and Lifestyles service have an excellent reputation for delivering children's community services, delivering Health Visiting in Solihull and Warwickshire and Coventry. We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic and motivated practitioners to train to become Health Visitors. As a Student Health Visitor you will have a year combining study and practice placements that will help families achieve positive health outcomes in Coventry. The Post holder will be responsible for completing the Course and Placement requirements. Student HV will attend BCU and during their time on placement par take Healthy Child Programme and
the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care which are sensitive, relevant and responsive to the diverse needs of individual and targeted patients/clients, families, groups and communities. This will involve being responsible for prioritising their shared caseload with a HV and finally management of a caseload based on assessment of care needs. This vacancy will be interviewed pending funding from HEE

Main duties of the job

The service offered by the health visiting service includes Universal, Universal Plus (Targeted) and Universal Partnership Plus (Specialist). The post holder will also contribute to the Public Health Agenda to meet Public Health targets to address health inequalities.

The postholder will engage in training in order to complete the BSc (Hons) Degree / Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health (Specialist Practitioner award in Health Visiting).

This will involve liaising with all relevant parties within the practice area and at the assigned University in order to gain the desired 50% theory and 50% practical element of the course. In order to attain successful completion, the student will be required to work as part of a multi -disciplinary team within the primary care setting, carrying out clinical duties with clients as agreed with their Practice Teacher. The student will be accountable to the respective local manager according to local management structures, and responsible to the allocated Practice Teacher for the term of training.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.