East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)
Job summary
Are you enthusiastic, resilient, excited to embrace change and passionate about providing an excellent service to families in our localities?
If so, East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Health Visiting) would welcome you to join our team!
We have vacancies for a Health Visitor within Cambridgeshire: one part-time position in St Ives and one full-time position in South Fenland/Doddington area.
East of England Community Health and Care are able to offer:
- A dedicated child and family focused service delivery that makes Every Contact Count
- The opportunity to work within an integrated 0-19 HCP skill mix team
- A holistic approach to offering support and guidance via management, safeguarding and restorative supervision
- Continuous staff development identified via our supervision and appraisal system in order to support and develop leadership skills
- Working for an NHS organisation with Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- An opportunity to build great relationships with our partner agencies, ensuring the best outcomes for children and families
Why not click on the link to the Job Description and find out more about the role.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 13 August 2026
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team leading the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme. The role of the Health Visitor is to promote good health and prevent ill health in children, families and communities.
Health Visitors do this through raising awareness of and identifying unmet health needs, and initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating plans of care.
They work in partnership with families, primary care, statutory and voluntary services and other partner agencies, in order to facilitate health-enhancing activities. Health Visitors use and establish networks within the community in order to inform, influence and implement policies which affect health outcomes.
Health Visitors deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The role is required to act as a named Health Visitor within a zone of a corporate caseload, and to be a link Health Visitor for identified GP practices. The service is delivered within the Cambridgeshire.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Community Specialist Practitioner in Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) – Health Visitor-at Honours Degree, Diploma or Masters Level
- Registered Nurse or Midwife with UK NMC
Desirable
- Management and leadership qualification
- Practice assessor or equivalent teaching qualification (course to be undertaken within 1 year of commencement of post if no qualification)
Experience
Essential
- Working with people within clinic/home and community settings
- Partnership and interagency working
- Experience with children and their families
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of Safeguarding
Desirable
- Leadership and management of staff
- Experience of Mentoring
- Work with different communities including minority and ethnic groups.
- Working with groups
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- High level of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs.
- Knowledge and effective skills in using evidence based models of intervention to deliver successful outcomes and an ability to bring research into practice
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing Health Visiting practice
- Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents and Early Years settings and other health organisations
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Current driving licence
Desirable
- Initiating and managing change
Closing Date: 24 August 2026
To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.