Exciting and unique development opportunity with the Institute of Health Visiting
iHV Professional Development Officer, Learning & Development department
The iHV is recruiting! Are you looking for a new opportunity in 2025?
Are you:
- An experienced health visitor with experience of teaching in health visiting and 0-5 public health practice?
- An excellent communicator, motivated to deliver high-quality training events across multi-agency groups to improve practice and professional development?
- An energetic team member, a confident self-starter who is able to work remotely across a range of activity each week?
If yes, then come join us!
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Institute of Health Visiting, the leading Centre of Excellence for health visiting, as the new Professional Development Officer to support the future delivery of the iHV’s highly rated training programmes and learning resources. Provision of national training is an important function of the work undertaken by the Institute. We have a reputation for delivery of perinatal and infant mental health programmes, however our portfolio is much broader and includes other key areas of learning which we are seeking support to deliver. Our current training portfolio is here and is continually evolving.
This is a brand-new position at the iHV. This post will work closely with the iHV Professional Education, Learning & Development Lead, the Learning & Development team, and across the Institute of Health Visiting to support our delivery of sustainable and high-quality continuing professional development for the workforce. The successful applicant will be highly respected by colleagues for their capacity to deliver professional development and will have a track record of teaching learning programmes.
Applications close: 5pm Monday 13 January 2025
Interviews: Monday 20 January 2025 – hold the date
Want to apply?
Please complete the application form and send this completed together with your current CV to [email protected]
Want to know more? Chat with us – for informal enquiries please contact:
Philippa Bishop, iHV Director of Learning & Development – [email protected]
Amanda Holland – iHV Professional Education, Learning & Development Lead – [email protected]
(Note: the iHV will be closed for the Christmas festive break from 20 December 2024, reopening on 2 January 2025 – we will respond to all enquiries only when in office)
A bit about us – Institute of Health Visiting
The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), established in 2012, is an independent charity, professional body, and Centre of Excellence – established to strengthen the quality and consistency of health visiting practice, so that health visitors can effectively respond to the health needs of all babies, children, families, and communities enabling them to achieve their optimum level of health, thereby reducing inequalities. The core focus of its work is on education, research, quality improvement and developing leadership in health visiting.
The iHV is a UK-wide organisation with a web-based Centre of Excellence for health visitors (www.ihv.org.uk).
Our values – we believe that:
- Improving public health outcomes for babies, children, families, and communities is at the heart of health visiting practice
- When appropriately resourced, health visiting provides a vital infrastructure of support that is central to improving public health outcomes and to reducing inequalities in health
- Ensuring the highest standards of education, research and practice means that health visitors can deliver a world-class service
- Health visiting leaders flourish in an environment of academic and professional excellence.
We are fully committed to the active promotion of equality, diversity, and inclusion in everything that we do. We want to enable an organisational culture that values diversity and we are committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination.
