Health Visitor - Duty Team | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

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Are you a passionate Health Visitor looking for a role where you can truly make a difference? Join our dynamic and progressive Duty Team where, as the first point of contact into the health visiting service, you’ll be at the heart of supporting families with children from 0-5 years old.

 Why Join Us?

 Be part of an innovative and responsive 0-19 Early Help Integrated Service that values the uniqueness of every family and is committed to delivering tailored support to meet their individual needs.

Impactful Work: Be the first point of contact for families and professionals, providing expert advice, triaging needs, and ensuring children and families receive timely support.

Innovative Environment: Work in our well-equipped Duty offices, designed to deliver an efficient and responsive health visiting service. 

Supportive Team: Collaborate with a skilled multi-disciplinary team within health visiting and across the integrated 0-19 Early Help Service.                           

Career Development: Benefit from high-quality clinical supervision, professional training, and leadership pathways.

Work-Life Balance & Wellbeing: We prioritise staff wellbeing with structured support, regular supervision, and a compassionate working environment.

Working as part of the Duty skill mix team of Staff Nurses, Community Nursery Nurses and Administrators, you will rotate through a variety of work streams which include:

Co-ordination of the duty team to ensure effective and efficient allocation of work across the wider service to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.

Triage and allocation of incoming enquiries to ensure families receive the right support at the right time.

Provide expert guidance to parents and carers on child development, health concerns, and family wellbeing.

Attend virtual safeguarding meetings, assess risks, and contribute to care plans.

Champion the Public Health agenda, through the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme aimed at reducing inequalities and promoting the best start in life for every child.

 Who You Are:

A qualified Health Visitor (SCPHN) with a passion for child and family health.

A confident communicator who can support families with sensitivity and care.

A team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Committed to continuous learning and professional growth.                                                A positive role model who demonstrates our values of Kindness, Integrity and Inclusion in all you do.

For more information about our teams and why you should join us click here -  Health visiting in East Sussex

 Join us and be part of a team that puts families at the heart of everything we do!

APPLY NOW and take the next step in your Health Visiting career!

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by  7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

Please refer to the job description attached.

 

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us

 

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Nov 2026