Antenatal Support jobs

Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and Knowsley.

We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.

We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people’s services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.

We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.

The Enhancing Families team aims to improve the antenatal health, child health and development and parents’ resilience in families with additional vulnerabilities.

Each family is allocated a specialist nurse who takes on the role of a health visitor and works alongside parents to support a healthy pregnancy and child development, as well as supporting parents to achieve their own aspirations.

The aim is to deliver the inclusive and flexible Enhancing Families parenting pathway, and nurses will develop therapeutic relationships with clients and work with vulnerable families initially engaging them in the antenatal period to achieve identified outcomes

The Enhancing Families Nurse will carry a universal partnership plus caseload, ensuring health needs are assessed, identified and supported.

They will work as part of the wider system to contribute to multi-agency working to ensure a Cheshire East wide collaborative approach to care.

This is a demanding role requiring high levels of professional skills and practice and the ability to work as part of a team. Role to include data collection and analysis and regular caseload oversight and support will be led by the Enhanced Lead for Cheshire East.

You can visit our dedicated children and young people’s website to find out more about our services.

Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:

0-19 / 0-19+ and 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Services

Community Nursing

Sexual Health Wirral

Community Cardiology

Walk-in centres

Speech and Language Therapy

Teletriage

Community Dental

Social Care

End of Life Care

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.

You can read more about the Trust via the careers section on our website .

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role in Cheshire East 0-19+ service