Health Visitor

Health Visitor - Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT.

Health Visitor

The closing date is 16 March 2026

This is a full time position 37.5 hours per week based in Doncaster.

The Doncaster 0-5 Health Visiting Service is an outstanding forward thinking Team who are proud to have recently won the RDaSH Clinical Team of the year award 2020 and are rated as Outstanding by CQC. We pride ourselves in leading the way with care and offering our Health Visiting Team an enhanced training package of tools to support their exemplary practice. Health Visitors have the opportunity to complete evidence based training including Brazlton (New Born Observation), Promotional Guides and the Solihull Approach is embedded into our everyday practice.

We have positive partnerships with Public Health, Midwifery and local Council partners and are involved with joint innovative practice championing the First 1001 Critical Days. We have close links with the Institute of Health Visiting, Sheffield and York Universities with which we are developing research and piloting further support tools for practice.

Applications are welcomed from SCPHN - Health Visitor NMC Registered Practitioners who are proactive and enthusiastic with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and are keen to work in Doncaster.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) you will work as part of an integrated team contributing to family health needs assessment. The post holder will lead the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme and work in partnership with the family, education and other agencies to develop implement and evaluate packages of care. Our service delivery model reflects the National 4, 5, 6 model with a focus on the 6 High Impact areas.

We deliver services in pathways at Community, Universal/Universal Plus and Universal Partnership Plus levels. This is underpinned by a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) which supports our practice by responding to unplanned care enabling the Universal team to focus on providing quality core Health Visiting care. Successful applicants will be allocated to work in one of 4 areas - North, South, East or Central area of Doncaster.

About us

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.

We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.

We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:

To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:

We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:

The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications.

Person Specification Qualifications

• A Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) with an active registration

Experience

• Evidence of continued personal/professional development and a willingness to undertake training.

Knowledge

• Critically examine and explain the role in relation to multi disciplinary practice.
• Employ the principles explicit in the children, young people and families' agenda.
• Identification and evaluation of the best evidence based practice in order to deliver effective health care intervention.
• A clear understanding of government and local health policy.
• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of practice.
• Knowledge of ethical and legal principles of Specialist Community Public Health practice.
• Critically evaluate and analyse information, concepts and process, to make clinical judgements and decisions in highly complex situations.
• Analyse the needs of clients drawing on appropriate theory and legislation.
• Teambuilding skills and skills to undertake work independently.
• Critical reflection on own experience and professional practice.
• Health needs assessment, principles of health promotion and education.
• High levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical practice.
• Willingness to undertake relevant training required and appropriate for the post.
• Ability to formulate and present resources for training.
• Ability to motivate, inspire and innovate.
• Skills and strategies for effective teaching, assessment and evaluation.
• Critical reflection on their experience of teaching and assessment.
• Knowledge and apply the skills to appraise the effectiveness of different models of reflection.
• Understand the ethical and legal considerations for reflections in practice.
• Knowledge of the relationship between theory and practice.

Skills

• Flexible approach to work in line with the needs of the service
• Well-developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
• Self motivated Confident - able to deal with individuals at all levels and in challenging situations.
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promote organisational values.
• Ability to handle difficult situations with tact and sensitivity
• Flexible and proactive approach to work
• Discretion and confidentiality
• Strong commitment to team and partnership working.
• Able to cope with conflicting demand

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.

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT