Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

How would you like to work as part of a high performing Health Visiting Service where we still deliver all 5 of the core contacts as part of the Healthy Child Programme? In addition we also offer group sessions during the early days, 6 months, 18 months and 3.5 years to support with school readiness.

If so then come and join us at Oxford Health where we really value and celebrate the role of health visitors!

We are currently looking to appoint Band 6 Health Visitors in the Thame and Chinnor Health Visiting Team. 

In addition to our universal offer, we have many exciting and rewarding features within our service.

A few examples include health visitors still being able to support maternal mental health, as well as leading on the delivery of perinatal mental health support groups, a teenage pathway led by health visitors working closely with our Family Nurse Partnership Team, breast feeding champions who ensure we achieved BFI stage 3 and strive to maintain the high standard of breastfeeding support we offer, Chat health parent messaging service.

You will be leading the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme as part of a team that includes Nursery Nurses, Community Staff Nurses and Administrative Support Workers, with additional support from experienced Locality Team Leaders.

We offer an exceptional and robust package of training, mentorship, and supervision, including a pathway for continuing career progression and development. 

We would welcome applications from experienced and newly qualified Health Visitors.

Full-time and part-time hours available.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

  • Excellent opportunities for career progression
  • 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
  • NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
  • Staff accommodation
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Lease car scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • New starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
  • Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
  • Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
  • Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
  • We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
  • Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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