Family Health Worker

24 hours per week to cover maternity leave.

The Family Health Worker will work within the West Port Public Health Nursing Team; which includes Health Visitors, School Nurses and Family Health Workers. The Public Health Nursing service work with children and young people aged 0-19-years; this role will primarily support children aged 0-5-years.

The Family Health Worker will be accountable to the Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visitor or School Nurse) in the delivery of the Department of Health, Healthy Child Programme 0-5years.

The Family Health Worker will implement approaches topromote and help prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.

The Family Health Worker will deliver planned episodes of care and health promotion in the home and community settings.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

Main duties of the job

Working across a variety of settings the Family Health Worker will deliver planned episodes of targeted support to families in their own homes. The Family Health Worker will also complete universal developmental reviews in clinics and nurseries. The Family Health Worker will faciliate Child Health Clinics; completing growth measurements and providing parents and carers with advice and support relating to health promotion topics.

Job responsibilities

To plan and undertake homevisits to deliver an episode of care, as delegated and assessed by the Health Visitor or School Nurse in response to identified need.

The Family Health Worker will work in partnership with families, health professionals andother agencies as required.

The Family Health Worker will have the ability to communicate and liaise clearly andeffectively with clients, colleagues and a variety of agencies withincommunity settings and base.

Becompetent to undertake delegated activities within the Healthy Child Programme,utilising appropriate tools when assessed as competent to do so for universalfamilies.

Toidentify deviations in normal child development and refer to the Health Visitor responsible for delegation and plan of care.

Inresponse to identified Public Health need (local and national directives)delivering and evaluating individual, clinic and group activities. Utilisingevidence based approaches to target individuals and groups.

Within own competencies and knowledge, implement identified packages of care that empower and meet client need and address service requirement, reviewingeffectiveness of specific activities as they proceed and modifyappropriately.

Tohave knowledge of and act in accordance with local child protection policiesand procedures.

Topractice in accordance with the standards, protocols and policies which havebeen agreed by Livewell Southwest, demonstrating knowledge of them and how toaccess them.

Thepost holder is required to comply with all infection control policies.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Vocational Qualification Level III in childcare or health related area.
• Maths & English GCSE Grades 4 and above or equivalent.
• Additional qualifications in child and family related areas.

Knowledge

• Working with children and/or families in partnership.
• Knowledge of normal child development.
• Awareness of Public Health
• Basic Child care
• Health and safety
• In depth knowledge of normal child development and able to apply with assessment tools.
• Has knowledge of how to communicate effectively in a range of settings and with a variety of people.
• Able to identify and know when to liaise and communicate effectively with other professionals.
• First aid training.
• Knowledge of community initiatives.
• Knowledge of child protection.

Skills

• Able to communicate effectively.
• Able to work alone within a supervised framework.
• Decision maker.
• Enthusiasm for working with children and families.
• Good listening and observational skills.
• Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations including areas not served by public transport.
• Be available to work outside normal working hours, occasional evening and Saturdays for specific health promotion activities.
• Works on an individual basis with children and families, supervised by the SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Nurse), for time limited, outcome based episodes of care.
• Is able to recognise areas of concern within families and follow agreed procedures.

Experience

• Working with children and/or families in partnership.
• Able to prioritise own work.
• Runs group activities in a variety of settings.
• Up-to-date working knowledge of a range of areas related to normal child development, for example, nutrition.
• Knowledge and/or experience of developmental language delay.
• Experience with group work.
• Experience working with other services/agencies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.