Job summary

We are seeking to recruit highly motivated and innovative practitioner to join our Isle of Wight Team as a Community Health Nurse. This is a fixed term 12 month position.

Are you passionate about improving the lives of Children and Families within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight? Do you want to make a difference and feel valued in your work? If so, we would love to hear from you.

You will work primarily with children from pre- birth to 5 years and their families, alongside experienced Health Visitors to deliver the Healthy Child Programme. The Healthy Child Programme is an evidence-based programme that focuses on supporting children and families with screening, immunisation, health and development reviews, supplemented by advice around health, wellbeing and parenting.

Main duties of the job

Community Health Nurses work within the 0-19 Service delivering the Healthy Child Programme through the 5 mandatory contacts and through short- and medium-term interventions which include infant feeding, behaviour and parenting.

To plan, implement and evaluate packages of care at Universal, Universal Targeted and Specialist levels of the Healthy Child Programme which is led by Health Visitors and Public Health Nurses.

To work in partnership with other agencies and families and contribute to innovative ways of working within children and families.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence