Health Visitor - Trainee (Student Health Visitor) Hailsham
Job description
Are you a Registered Qualified Nurse or Midwife who would like the opportunity to be paid to train to become a Health Visitor and work within the 0-19 Early Help service?
This is a brilliant job for someone who enjoys working with children and families and is passionate about their health and wellbeing.
Starting September 2023, you will be employed by East Sussex Healthcare Trust (ESHT) as a vital part of one of our Hub teams to undertake a one-year full-time course or two-year part-time course to complete the BSc Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) training in Health Visiting at the University of Brighton.
You will have the opportunity to embed yourself within one of our Hubs, build strong team relationships and be very familiar with the 0-19 service. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your professional career, where upon successful completion of the course, you will gain the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Qualification and become a qualified Band 6 Health Visitor continuing to work within the service. This will lead to registration on Part 3 of the NMC Register. If unsuccessful you will remain as a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse within the Health Visiting service.
For 2023/24 Health Visiting Trainees, an attractive offer has been agreed that mileage will be paid from allocated base to university.
Interviews will be held in March, April and May 2023
Who we are looking for:
- A qualified Paediatric/General/Mental Health/Learning Disabilities Nurse or Midwife
- A reflective and emotionally intelligent practitioner who makes good use of supervision and support.
- Someone who can address sensitive issues with families in a clear and supportive way.
- Someone who demonstrates ESHT values in their interactions with all clients and colleagues: Respect and compassion, engagement and involvement, improvement and development and working together.
We provide safe, compassionate and high-quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the attached JD.
We can offer
- Practice placements within the catchment area of ESHT, which covers the county from Peacehaven in the West to Forest Row in the North of the county and Rye in the East. University teaching will be held at the University of Brighton, Falmer campus.
- Excellent learning environment supported by Practice Supervisors and Assessors and support from the Locality Manager Education Lead.
- Preceptorship for newly qualified Health Visitors, competency based learning and supportive mentoring and line management.
- 6 weekly 1-1 high quality clinical and safeguarding supervision from line managers who have undergone supervision training
- Access to restorative group supervision
- Access to mentorship modules
- A programme of in-house clinical and professional development via conference style events, communities of practice and clinical update days
- Working as part of an integrated NHS-County Council team with access to good quality resources and training.
- Exceptional health and wellbeing support for all our staff.
- Listening forums for staff to have the opportunity to be involved in service development and quality improvement via working groups, audit and feedback
- Newly purchased laptop enabled for agile working on a tailored case notes system and smart phones
- Options for flexible working to support work-life balance
