Re: D/E grade job descriptions

[Guest guest]

We are having the same pboblems and I would also be interested in any information anyone has around this. Slso I am looking to do some research into the new birth visit and parents perception, and what parents feel about having in many cases only one home visit. I would be again grateful for any info

Pat

-----Original Message-----From: Val Sibson [mailto:vAL.SIBSON@...]Sent: 07 January 2004 03:09 Subject: D/E grade job descriptions

I am on a recruitment drive at present but am finding it difficult to recruit health visitors for the various posts I have vacant. As an alternative i am having to consider other options including community staff nurses - despite my reservations about dilution of the HV baseline. I would be grateful if anyone who employs community staff nurses at D/E grade would be willing to share their experiences and any job descriptions they may have for the relevant posts.

Thanks in anticipations

Val

[Guest guest]

We are having the same pboblems and I would also be interested in any information anyone has around this. Slso I am looking to do some research into the new birth visit and parents perception, and what parents feel about having in many cases only one home visit. I would be again grateful for any info

Pat

-----Original Message-----From: Val Sibson [mailto:vAL.SIBSON@...]Sent: 07 January 2004 03:09 Subject: D/E grade job descriptions

I am on a recruitment drive at present but am finding it difficult to recruit health visitors for the various posts I have vacant. As an alternative i am having to consider other options including community staff nurses - despite my reservations about dilution of the HV baseline. I would be grateful if anyone who employs community staff nurses at D/E grade would be willing to share their experiences and any job descriptions they may have for the relevant posts.

Thanks in anticipations

Val

[Guest guest]

Val, it is awful that you are having sleepless nights about this and even

more awful that you are not alone in your anxieties. I don't know have direct

examples of staff nurse job descriptions, although I hear from colleagues

that it is not easy to recruit even at that level. Other suggestions: what

about family workers, people who have worked in voluntary sector (e.g. Home

Start), sure start workers, psychology graduates, those who have degrees

in health studies/promotion, community workers etc? They are all the folk

we would want to recruit onto direct entry courses for health visiting if

only we were allowed to. My experience of working with people of such backgrounds

as researchers is that they have excellent skills, knowledge and empathy,

could readily work in a vocational field without prior baggage.

Sareah

Val Sibson wrote:

I am on a recruitment drive at present

but am finding it difficult to recruit health visitors for the various posts

I have vacant. As an alternative i am having to consider other options including

community staff nurses - despite my reservations about dilution of the HV

baseline. I would be grateful if anyone who employs community staff nurses

at D/E grade would be willing to share their experiences and any job descriptions

they may have for the relevant posts.

Thanks in anticipations

Val

[Guest guest]

I have lit searched the new birth visit and could find nothing. There's quite a lot of research around about parent's perceptions of HV service. I may be uttering heresy but I do think we have to question the whole issue of the rigidity around the new birth visit and would be interested in others' views although I think we may have debated this before or something similar.

Ann

RE: D/E grade job descriptions

We are having the same pboblems and I would also be interested in any information anyone has around this. Slso I am looking to do some research into the new birth visit and parents perception, and what parents feel about having in many cases only one home visit. I would be again grateful for any info

Pat

-----Original Message-----From: Val Sibson [mailto:vAL.SIBSON@...]Sent: 07 January 2004 03:09 Subject: D/E grade job descriptions

I am on a recruitment drive at present but am finding it difficult to recruit health visitors for the various posts I have vacant. As an alternative i am having to consider other options including community staff nurses - despite my reservations about dilution of the HV baseline. I would be grateful if anyone who employs community staff nurses at D/E grade would be willing to share their experiences and any job descriptions they may have for the relevant posts.

Thanks in anticipations

Val