Health Visitor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and innovative Health Visitor to join the universal Health Visiting service in Wrexham, North Wales. The post holder will manage a caseload within a defined population, focusing on increasing family resilience, improving population health outcomes, and reducing health inequalities while safeguarding children. They will contribute to public health initiatives and deliver the Healthy Child Wales Programme for 0-5 year olds. Candidates must hold a degree or equivalent in Health Visiting with current NMC registration.
Essential criteria
- SCPHN Health Visitor Post graduate diploma or Certificate or working towards it.
- Live current NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- SCPHN Degree
- Mentorship
- Clinical Supervisor
- [contact details removed]
- In-depth understanding of Public health agenda & priorities
- Ability to apply and enact local strategy
- Understanding of clinical governance agenda
- All Wales Child Protection Procedures (2008) and practice
- In depth knowledge of Health Visiting practice and strategic drivers
- Healthy Child Wales Programme(2015)
- Level 3 Safeguarding
- Teaching in a clinical setting
- Safeguarding
- Multi-agency working
- Partnership working
- Facilitating group work
- Proven change management experience
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Effective mentoring
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Proven skills in motivating and influencing others
- Leadership skills
- Basic IT skills to include WORD and email
- MECC
- Change management skills
- Personal Attributes
- Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Confident and ability to motivate others
- Team player and change agent
- Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner
- Ability to speak Welsh
- SCPHN Health Visitor Post graduate diploma or Certificate or working towards it.
- Live current NMC Registration
- SCPHN Degree
- Mentorship
- Clinical Supervisor
- [contact details removed]
- In-depth understanding of Public health agenda & priorities
- Ability to apply and enact local strategy
- Understanding of clinical governance agenda
- All Wales Child Protection Procedures (2008) and practice
- In depth knowledge of Health Visiting practice and strategic drivers
- Healthy Child Wales Programme(2015)
- Level 3 Safeguarding
- Teaching in a clinical setting
- Safeguarding
- Multi-agency working
- Partnership working
- Facilitating group work
- Proven change management experience
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Effective mentoring
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Proven skills in motivating and influencing others
- Leadership skills
- Basic IT skills to include WORD and email
- MECC
- Change management skills
- Personal Attributes
- Flexible approach to unpredictable workload demands/patterns to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Confident and ability to motivate others
- Team player and change agent
- Ability to travel between sites and visits in a timely manner
- Ability to speak Welsh
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.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Health Visitor
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has an opportunity for an enthusiastic and innovative Health Visitor to join our universal Health Visiting service in Grove road clinic, Wrexham area North Wales. We are looking for a self-motivated team player who has excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
The post holder will manage a caseload within a defined population, with overarching aims of increasing family resilience, improving population health outcomes and reducing health inequalities whilst safeguarding the wellbeing of children. The post holder will contribute to the public health role in line with government public health initiatives and within the Healthy Child Wales Programme.
Candidates must hold a degree or equivalent in Health Visiting with current NMC registration.
Employment in this post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have professional responsibility for a defined population/caseload and lead the delivery & organisation of the public health program. Delivering the nursing component of the Healthy Wales Child Programme to a 0-5 age population within a defined area.
Based within the community setting, the practitioner is r
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