Health Visitor Torfaen Borough
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
An enthusiastic Health Visitor is sought to join the Torfaen Health visiting team, delivering an Early Years Health visiting programme to families. The role involves working autonomously and in partnership with various services, providing universal, enhanced, and intensive Health Visiting services to children and families. The successful candidate will contribute to developing new projects and policies, implementing and evaluating evidence-based practice.
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Confident and have the ability to motivate others
- Team player and change agent
- Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Leadership skills
- Competent in IT skills, completing data and writing emails
- MECC
- Delivery of HCWP
- Working with mutli disciplinary team
- Experience of working with Safeguarding and Vulnerable families
- Understanding of HCWP
- SCPHN Qualification
- Working towards SCPHN Qualification
- Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Confident and have the ability to motivate others
- Team player and change agent
- Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Leadership skills
- Competent in IT skills, completing data and writing emails
- MECC
- Delivery of HCWP
- Working with mutli disciplinary team
- Experience of working with Safeguarding and Vulnerable families
- Understanding of HCWP
- SCPHN Qualification
- Working towards SCPHN Qualification
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £40,559 – £48,841 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Health Visitor Torfaen Borough
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking to employ an enthusiastic Health Visitor to join our Torfaen Health visiting team. You will be working within a team of Health Visitors and skill mix staff delivering an Early Years Health visiting programme to families living within the Torfaen area.
The successful candidate will have the relevant qualification, professionalism and clinical skills necessary to work on their own initiative as well as working effectively in partnership with parents/carers and other services such as Early Years Services, , Primary Care, Children Services and School Nursing. Applications from student due to qualify are also welcomed.
Main duties of the job
The Health Visitor contributes to the development of new projects and policies within the health visiting service and is involved in the research, implementation and evaluation of evidence based practice. The post holder will be responsible for providing universal, enhanced, and intensiveHealth Visiting services to children and families from all cultural diversities on their case load. Health Visitors work as a team across locally defined areas and support the service across Gwent, to provide a safe service for all preschool children and their families.
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