Public Health Practitioner (midwife, health visitor, paediatric nurse)

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Part -Time, 18 Month FTC
Salary: PO2 £41,442 – £44,331 (Band 6 NHS equivalent) per annum, pro rata
Interview: 18th December 2024
Closing Date: Sunday 8th December 2024

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

Do you have a passion for helping children and their families to become resilient, have higher levels of wellbeing and good mental health, and to support staff in their clinical practice to meet the needs of a diverse community?

If you are you looking for a new challenge and you think you can contribute to the development of our innovative programme and its’ roll-out, which is intended to support parents to build strong and secure attachment relationships with their children, we would like to hear from you.

About you

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual with sound clinical knowledge and experience to take up this exciting opportunity. This role would ideally suit a candidate with the ability to implement strategies for health improvement, good understanding of the children and young people’s pathway, with strong networking and influencing/negotiating skills. The postholder will need to develop a good understanding of the context of services in the borough which can support this strand of work within the Family Hubs.

The successful candidate will be working across Public Health, Haringey Family Hubs, CAMHs and perinatal primary and secondary healthcare. You will be working in a dynamic, supportive and highly motivated Public Health team that is well embedded within the Adult and Health Directorate of the Local Authority, with excellent working relationships across the Council, the local Integrated Care Board (ICB) voluntary sector and wider partners. The leaders of the borough are firmly committed to public health and the principles of early intervention and prevention, making this an excellent place to work in collaboration to achieve genuine improvements for our residents.

If you are a passionate and experienced Registered General Nurse – paediatric, Health Visitor or Registered Midwife looking for an exciting new opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and well-being support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.