Enhancing Families Practitioner
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Crewe, CW1 3AWView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
24 November 2026
12 days leftJob description
Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust? Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is ...
The Enhancing Families team aims to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents' resilience in families with additional vulnerabilities.
Each family is allocated a specialist nurse who takes on the role of a health visitor and works alongside parents to support a healthy pregnancy and child development, as well as supporting parents to achieve their own aspirations.
The aim is to deliver the inclusive and flexible Enhancing Families parenting pathway, and nurses will develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work with vulnerable families initially engaging them in the antenatal period to achieve identified outcomes
The Enhancing Families Nurse will carry a universal partnership plus caseload, ensuring health needs are assessed, identified and supported.
They will work as part of the wider system to contribute to multi-agency working to ensure a Cheshire East wide collaborative approach to care.
This is a demanding role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team. Role to include data collection and analysis and regular caseload oversight and support will be led by the Enhanced Lead for Cheshire East.
You can visit our dedicated children and young people's website to find out more about our services.
Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:
- 0-19 / 0-19+ and 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Services
- Community Nursing
- Sexual Health Wirral
- Community Cardiology
- Walk-in centres
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Teletriage
- Community Dental
- Social Care
- End of Life Care
As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.
You can read more about the Trust via the careers section on our website.
Qualifications and professonal training
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Health Visitor SCPHN qualification
- Masters level education
- Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- At least 2 experience years of working with families in deprived communities
- At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, home visiting
- Working with children and families
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- National and local safeguarding policie
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
Desirable: - Behavioural change theory; - Attachment theory; - Parent/infant mental health
Skills and attributes
Essential
- Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
- Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
- Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
- Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
- Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
- Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
- Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision
- Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
- Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
- Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups
- Computer skills to create reports, use e mail, read excel spread sheets
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable: - Motivational interviewing and counselling
Personal qualities
Essential: - Tenacious and persistent; - Resilient; - Empathic and non judgemental; - Warmth and flexibility; - Self awareness; - Able to travel independently
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First seen
10 November 2026
Last checked
12 November 2026
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