The iHV is recruiting! Are you looking for a new opportunity in 2025?
Are you:
- An experienced practitioner with a passion for perinatal and infant mental health?
- An excellent communicator, with a track record of delivering 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 and flexibly?
If yes, then come and join us!
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Institute of Health Visiting, the leading Centre of Excellence for health visiting, as a Professional Development Officer, PIMH to support the future delivery of the iHV’s highly rated mental health portfolio, including training and involvement in research and practice development projects.
This post is a one-year fixed-term maternity cover. The successful postholder will work closely with the iHV PIMH Lead and the Innovation & Research and Learning & Development teams, and across the Institute of Health Visiting, to support our delivery of sustainable and high-quality continuing professional development for the workforce.
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]
For an informal chat please contact:
Hilda Beauchamp – iHV Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Lead
[email protected]
Or
Vicky Gilroy – iHV Director of Innovation and Research
[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.
