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HEALTH VISITOR
BANFF AND BUCHAN HEALTH VISITING TEAM
Location: Chalmers Hospital, Banff, Aberdeenshire
Hours; 22.5 hours per week - Mon to Friday
We would like to invite a flexible, enthusiastic, resilient and dynamic Health Visitor to join our friendly, enthusiastic and experienced Health Visitor team based in Banff and Buchan. This post allows an HV to manage their own caseload, which has child protection and additional families within the caseload. The caseload offers a great variety of experiences.
Aberdeenshire is a predominantly rural area in North East Scotland, traditionally economically dependent upon the primary sectors (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing), related processing industries and the energy industry. It covers 6,313 km² or 8% of Scotland’s overall territory, and includes the Cairngorm Mountains, rich agricultural lowlands and varied coastal landscapes.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and embrace skill mix team working. Health visiting experience in multi agency working and in child protection is desirable. Good sense of humour essential.
This post would also be suitable for newly qualified or those undertaking their 2nd placement SCPHN training and are due to qualify and be registered with NMC in 2023
Mentorship and Case Supervision is provided on a regular basis.
Banff and Buchan strives to provide a high quality equitable early intervention service across the area incorporating the Universal HV Pathway and GIRFEC Principles.
Interviews scheduled for Wednesday 19th April
Informal enquiries please contact:
Denise Wechsler 07811827825 (Team Leader)
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.