We have an exciting opportunity to join our Health Visiting Service as an Early Years Community Practitioner! Working alongside Health Visitors within our Health Visiting service, you will support the delivery of 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 across Bath.We have both full time and part time roles available so whether you are looking for a full time role (37.5 hours per week) or looking for more flexibility in a part time role we have availability so why not choose what works for you!As travel is required for this role, a valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes are essential.Package DescriptionAs an Early Years Community Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath.You will feel valued as an Early Years Community Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: A salary of £26,712.00 pro rata with access to our group pensionFree tea and coffee at your base locationMembership 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 youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline 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 counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn 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 yearThe 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 CommissionMain ResponsibilitiesAs an Early Years Community Practitioner, your main responsibilies will include the following:To carry out individual work with families as delegated by accountable Health Visitor and feedback outcomes.To support the facilitation of local healthy family drop in Hubs.To plan and deliver universal 3-4 month health promotion sessions, facilitating discussions with groups of parents/carers.To undertake Universal mandated reviews, including 6-8 week, 10 month and 24 month reviews as delegated by accountable Health Visitor, and to feed back regarding any child or family requiring further assessment, or referral, to the named Health Visitor.To carry out maternal mental health screening at 6 week and 10 month reviews using evidence-based screening tools.To participate in CO monitoring at key mandated contacts as per CO monitoring pathway.Please refer to the Job Description for a full list of main responsibilities.The Ideal CandidateThe ideal candidate will have an NNEB qualification or equivalent to BTEC (National Diploma in Nursery Nursing) or equivalent such as NVQ level 3 (Childcare and Education) or Foundation Degree in Early Years/Education.A Full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.We would like someone who has good communication and interpersonal skills and have the ability to work flexibly and be adaptable according to service needs.The successful candidate will have a sound understanding of child development, parenting, and the ability to apply behavioural programmes.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.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
