Health Visitor, Turn Around for Children Service (TACS)
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucester, GL1 2JFView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 November 2026
14 days leftJob description
This is a part time permanent post for 22.5 hours a week. A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven member of staff to join the Turn Aro...
To provide and maintain evidence-based specialist care adapted to meet the needs of a defined community population to ensure that service users receive appropriate intervention, maintaining the standards set at a local and national level.
Please see Job description for the full list of the main duties of this role.
The post holder will within a multiagency team to identify early and engage to help at risk families delivering evidenced based episodes of care.
The post holder will have a shared responsibility for managing skill mix teams
The post holder will participate in practice development and public health initiatives
The post holder will have responsibility for maintaining own professional accountability through supervision and updating.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For moreinformationplease visithttps://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to a degree level (or equivalent)
- Specialist Community Public Health Nursing qualification, diploma or degree
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on part 1 or 2 (Registered Nurse of Midwife)- RHV Health Visitor HV Health Visitor
Length and /or nature of experience
Essential
- Experience of working across agencies
- Understanding and experience of the application of research in practice
- Evidence of child protection experience
- Experience in identifying and assessing health needs including community health needs
Professional/ managerial/ specialist knowledge
Essential
- Sound understanding of the NHS plan and other national policies and how it will impact on local services
- Knowledge of health visiting policies and procedures that underpin evidence based practice
Desirable: - Knowledge of Family Drug and Alcohol Court, framework and practices
Personal Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Accurate clinical record keeping following national and local guidelines
- The ability to undertake in-depth and evidence based reports to assist allied professionals within the FDAC
- To deliver specific & specialised assessments and interventions
- Provision of accurate data following set systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Maintain records as per NMC guidelines/local policy
- IT literacy
- Ability to teach, assess and present
- Good listening, communication and networking skills
- Ability to form good working relationships with colleagues and clients
- Ability to undertake all statutory and mandatory training
Desirable: - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages eg Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Outlook
Other requirements
Essential: - Ability to cope with a frequently changing professional climate
Desirable: - Ability to travel around the locality as requested, independently and efficiently.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
1 October 2026
Last checked
2 October 2026
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