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Enhancing Families Practitioner
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust View all jobs
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Job summary
Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and Knowsley.
We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.
We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people's services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.
We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.
Main duties of the job
The Enhancing Families team aims to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents' resilience in families with additional vulnerabilities.
Each family is allocated a specialist nurse who takes on the role of a health visitor and works alongside parents to support a healthy pregnancy and child development, as well as supporting parents to achieve their own aspirations.
The aim is to deliver the inclusive and flexible Enhancing Families parenting pathway, and nurses will develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work with vulnerable families initially engaging them in the antenatal period to achieve identified outcomes
The Enhancing Families Nurse will carry a universal partnership plus caseload, ensuring health needs are assessed, identified and supported.
They will work as part of the wider system to contribute to multi-agency working to ensure a Cheshire East wide collaborative approach to care.
This is a demanding role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team. Role to include data collection and analysis and regular caseload oversight and support will be led by the Enhanced Lead for Cheshire East.
You can visit our dedicated children and young people's website to find out more about our services.
About us
Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:
- 0-19 / 0-19+ and 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Services
- Community Nursing
- Sexual Health Wirral
- Community Cardiology
- Walk-in centres
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Teletriage
- Community Dental
- Social Care
- End of Life Care
As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.
You can read more about the Trust via the careers section on our website.
Details
Date posted
10 November 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year none
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
844-8247212
Job locations
Eagle Bridge Health and Care Centre
Dunwoody Way
Crewe
CW1 3AW
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role in Cheshire East 0-19+ service
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role in Cheshire East 0-19+ service
Person Specification
Qualifications and professonal training
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Health Visitor SCPHN qualification
- Masters level education
- Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- At least 2 experience years of working with families in deprived communities
- At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, home visiting
- Working with children and families
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- National and local safeguarding policie
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
Desirable
- Behavioural change theory
- Attachment theory
- Parent/infant mental health
Skills and attributes
Essential
- Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
- Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
- Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
- Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
- Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
- Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
- Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision
- Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
- Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
- Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups
- Computer skills to create reports, use e mail, read excel spread sheets
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing and counselling
Personal qualities
Essential
- Tenacious and persistent
- Resilient
- Empathic and non judgemental
- Warmth and flexibility
- Self awareness
- Able to travel independently
Person Specification
Qualifications and professonal training
Essential
- Nursing or midwifery qualifications and registered with the NMC
- Health Visitor SCPHN qualification
- Masters level education
- Willingness to undertake specialist postgraduate training and be assessed on competence in clinical field following training
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- At least 2 experience years of working with families in deprived communities
- At least 2 years experience of midwifery, child health, home visiting
- Working with children and families
- Understand the difference between advice giving and motivational approaches
- National and local safeguarding policie
- Willingness to undertake personal study to develop understanding of a range of clinical areas
Desirable
- Behavioural change theory
- Attachment theory
- Parent/infant mental health
Skills and attributes
Essential
- Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations
- Able to develop supportive, trusting and respectful relationships
- Able to work effectively in a team, supporting others and challenging colleagues views and attitudes when necessary
- Able to sensitively provide anticipatory guidance to parents
- Able to manage exposure to distressing life events and stressful complex partnerships
- Highly reflective and able to learn from experiences
- Willingness to prepare for and engage in clinical and managerial supervision
- Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
- Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and in writing
- Exceptional communication, facilitative and motivating skills
- Able to work effectively with diverse groups
- Computer skills to create reports, use e mail, read excel spread sheets
- Able to analyse numerical data
Desirable
- Motivational interviewing and counselling
Personal qualities
Essential
- Tenacious and persistent
- Resilient
- Empathic and non judgemental
- Warmth and flexibility
- Self awareness
- Able to travel independently
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Eagle Bridge Health and Care Centre
Dunwoody Way
Crewe
CW1 3AW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wchc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Eagle Bridge Health and Care Centre
Dunwoody Way
Crewe
CW1 3AW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wchc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)