Health Visitor – Flying Start: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 40,559 to 48,841 £ / Year

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Job summary

Flying Start Health Visitor Vacancy 37.5 hours – Flintshire area Band 6 Permanent contract.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Health Visitor to work within our Flying Start multi-agency team. Managing a caseload within a defined population; with the overarching aims of increasing family resilience, improving population health outcomes and reducing health inequalities whilst safeguarding the wellbeing of children.

Main duties of the job

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has an opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative Health Visitor to join our Flying Start Health Visiting Service in the Flintshire area, North Wales. We are looking for a self-motivated team player who has excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills. To work with a multi-agency Flying Start team to achieve the Welsh Assembly Government initiative scheme, targeting Communities in need to provide enhanced local services within a multi-agency setting.

The post holder will manage a defined caseload in addition to facilitating group and community work that aims to address Health inequalities in partnership with the wider multi-skilled team. They will undertake assessment of needs, planning, implementing and evaluating the programme of care offered to families and individuals. In addition, the post holder will contribute to the public health role in line with government public health initiatives.

Candidates must hold a degree or equivalent in Health Visiting (or on a current SCPHN Health Visiting course) with current NMC registration and nurse prescribing qualification. Experience is preferable but may be newly qualified.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • SCPHN Health Visitor Post graduate diploma or Certificate
  • Live current NMC Registration

Desirable

  • SCPHN Degree
  • Mentorship
  • Clinical Supervisor
  • Nurse Prescribing

Knowledge

Essential

  • In-depth understanding of Public Health agenda & priorities
  • Ability to apply and enact local strategy
  • Understanding of clinical governance agenda
  • All Wales Child Protection Procedures (2008) and Practice
  • In depth knowledge of Health Visiting practice and strategic drivers
  • Healthy Child Wales Programme (2015)

Desirable

  • Level 3 Safeguarding

Experience

Essential

  • Teaching in a clinical setting
  • Safeguarding
  • Multi-agency working

Desirable

  • Partnership working
  • Facilitating group work
  • Proven change management experience

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Effective mentoring
  • Ability to work Autonomously
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Proven skills in motivating and influencing others
  • Leadership skills
  • Basic IT skills to include WORD and email

Desirable

  • MECC
  • Change management skills

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands patterns
  • Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
  • Confident and ability to motivate others
  • Team player and change
  • Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner

Desirable

  • Ability to speak Welsh

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 8 November 2026

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