0-19 Public Health Practitioner - Health Visitor

£39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate, dynamic, Health visitor to join our team in the Newcastle under Lyme district You will be a registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Health Visitor. This is based at Porthill clinic and the post is for 0.8 WTE (30 hours per week).

The post is part of the Children's and Families Care Group and the Universal Services function, and you will work in a variety of settings. The primary aim of the 0-19 Integrated Health Visiting and School Nursing Service is to deliver the Healthy Child Programme to children, young people and families across Staffordshire.

This is a dynamic posts that requires you to work closely with uni/multi-disciplinary teams/agencies in addressing a range of care/support issues across the spectrum of conditions, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and improving the health and wellbeing of the population served.

You will work alongside the Team Leaders and Professional Lead to ensure synergy across the localities. This will ensure that services are delivered to a high standard that are accessible and demonstrate a commitment to equality and inclusion.

• Be a Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner and have detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in public health across the 0-19 agenda.
• Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Partnership Trust including the community and hospitals.
• Be skilled in the assessment of children and young people's care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.
• Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.
• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.
• To deliver commissioned aspects of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring key objectives and outcomes are achieved.

For more information relating to this vacancy please refer to the attached job description and person specification

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.

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

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Porthill clinic

Inglewood Drive, Porthill

Newcastle under Lyme

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

10 November 2026

Agenda for change

Band 6

Permanent

Part-time

Porthill clinic

Inglewood Drive, Porthill

Newcastle under Lyme