Tags: learning

New career opportunity to join iHV as Director of Programmes (Learning and Development)

The iHV is currently at an exciting point in its growth, as it seeks to expand its learning and development portfolio. We are seeking an operational and people-focused Director of Programmes (Learning and Development) to join our Executive team. With a growing membership, we’re an optimistic organisation and we can see a brighter future ahead. This role provides a unique opportunity to join us and be part of the journey as we seek to strengthen health visiting across the UK and improve outcomes for the babies, children, families and communities that we serve.

You will lead the Learning and Development team and play a key role in developing our portfolio of programmes, as well as being instrumental in shaping our vision and strategy for the future. Working with colleagues from across the iHV, as well as external partners, you will drive the development and delivery of high-quality, impactful learning programmes that transform practitioners’ potential to improve health visiting.

Our current learning and development portfolio supports a wide range of health visiting and multi-agency practitioners at different stages of their career journey – from training on key public health priority topics, to bespoke leadership programmes – there is lots of variety and an abundance of potential to develop this in the future. This is a varied and demanding role that will put you at the forefront of ensuring that practitioners have the learning and development opportunities that they need to thrive in their health visiting careers.

We are looking for a very special person to join our small but mighty team, all focused on turning our mission into reality. To join us, you’ll need significant leadership and management experience and proven skills in the development, delivery and evaluation of learning programmes, with excellent project management skills, including managing human and financial resources. We are looking for someone who has personal drive for excellence and the willingness to think strategically, embrace change and innovation, and with sound business acumen.

You will be joining our organisation at an exciting time as we look to review our business strategy in 2025 to ensure that the iHV remains in a strong position now, and in the future. Is this the opportunity you’ve been waiting for?

What We Offer:

  • The chance to work in a leading charity and professional body for health visiting and make a significant impact on the health visiting profession and its work to improve health outcomes for babies, children, families, and communities.
  • A dynamic and supportive work environment – working with a team of people who are genuinely committed to our charity’s core mission and values, and making the iHV a ‘great place to work’.
  • Opportunities for professional development.
  • Hybrid and flexible working – With a hot desk in London and an office nestled on the south coast, we can offer a range of flexible working options including home-based and hybrid. This post will require some UK travel.
  • Holiday – 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 days leave after 2 years employment at the iHV – pro rata for part-time staff).
  • Workplace pensions – the iHV has a generous organisation pension scheme, with 10% employer contribution and a personalised employee contribution to suit your needs.
  • Team Away Days – We gather together as a whole team once a year for our 2-day awayday, and at regular intervals online and at our conferences throughout the year. We value our time together as a team to celebrate the work that we have done, learn together, share ideas and constantly look for ways to improve what we do for the benefit of the people that we serve – with a mix of work and fun to build relationships and connections across our organisation.

Applications close: 9am Monday 20 January 2025
First Interviews:  22 or 24 January 2025 – hold the dates

For further details and how to apply

Read our latest annual report to find out more about iHV

Scottish Government publishes updated National Framework for Child Protection Learning and Development

On 1 March 2024, the Scottish Government published its updated version of the National Framework for Child Protection Learning and Development which will be relevant to health visitors working in Scotland.

This updated Framework replaces the previous version, published in 2012 to support the design and delivery of child protection learning and development. It provides a resource for all learning and development relevant to child protection, regardless of which agency practitioners work in and can be used flexibly and alongside single agency frameworks for learning to emphasise the key themes of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 – updated 2023 .

The longstanding key message is that safeguarding is ‘Still Everyone’s Job’. All practitioners have a responsibility to remain aware of changes to legislation, policy and practice that impact on how frontline services should respond. The updated Framework incorporates recent legislation and several key policy documents:

The National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 – updated 2023 (NGCP2023) highlighted important themes for practice, and these will be key to updating all learning and development resources within the ‘Getting it right for every child’ (GIRFEC) continuum – wellbeing to welfare to protection – supporting a proactive, preventative approach to practice. Key themes are:

  • rights-based approach (supporting and embracing UNCRC)
  • needs-led/strengths-based approach (supporting relationship-based practice)
  • trauma-informed/enhanced practice (supporting understanding of childhood adversity and trauma)
  • holistic assessment (supporting strengths/resilience, identifying risk/concerns within a child’s experiences)
  • recognising diversity and inclusion (supporting sensitivity of language, culture and communication differences).

The Framework aims to provide a resource which clarifies child protection learning needed at four levels – “Wider Workforce, General Workforce, Specific Workforce, and Intensive Workforce”, to:

  • promote collaborative multi-agency practice to support children’s wellbeing, welfare and protection
  • support the multi-agency task of assessing, managing and addressing identified need or risk to children, young people or parents/carers
  • provide a multi-agency learning and development framework adaptable for local learning and development strategies and evaluation
  • contribute to best practice through the development of a competent and confident workforce
  • support the design, implementation and evaluation of multi-agency child protection learning
  • establish agreed competencies, identifying the relevant knowledge and skills required, according to the roles and responsibilities of the various groups that make up multi-agency workforces, including those likely to encounter children, young people and their families as part of their day-to-day work
  • emphasise the importance of shared learning and collaborative practice to achieve better outcomes for children
Read the revised Framework in full here

 

 

WeLearn #AllOurHealth – starts 4 February

All Our Health (Public Health England’s framework of evidence to guide health care professionals in preventing illness, protecting health and promoting wellbeing) is going social!

For the second year WeCommunities and Public Health England are collaborating to bring the All Our Health Framework to life and to bring FREE learning and professional development to health and care professionals, by using social media to engage people.

The #AllOurHealth @WeLearnOutLoud programme starts on Monday 4 February. Using social media to bring the All Our Health framework to life and into your practice. It’s free and easy to use, so why not sign up now?

The course runs from 4 February – 8 March and takes between 10 – 20 minutes a day for 4 days a week, participants don’t have to have used social media before to take part and it is open to all health and social care professionals, including students.

Don’t forget to join in via Twitter – simply search, follow and add #AllOurHealth

Ways to take part

Option 1

For the full experience – sign up on the WeLearn platform to take part: http://www.wecommunities.org/blogs/3440

Option 2

Follow along via Twitter – follow the hashtag #AllOurHealth from 4 February and look out for tweets from @WeLearnOutLoud

Option 3

Follow along via the WeNurses Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Children’s attachment – online learning tool

NICE has just launched an online learning tool – Children’s attachment – that uses interactive activities and case studies to support the implementation of NICE guidance.

The tool sets out how the guideline can be applied in a practical way to support children and young people who may have attachment difficulties, as well as their carers and families.

This e-learning tool has learning activities to help you to implement the guideline “Children’s attachment: attachment in children and young people who are adopted from care, in care or at high risk of going into care” and improve outcomes by focusing on some of the key implementation challenges identified. It is divided into four sections:

  • Understanding attachment
  • Causes of attachment difficulties
  • Recognising possible attachment difficulties
  • Supporting children and young people who may have attachment difficulties, their carers and families.

It will take around one hour to complete and you can undertake it in more than one session if required. The tool will resume where you left off.  You will need to login to the NICE system to access the e-learning.

This free online tool has been developed by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE).

It’s aimed at staff who have contact with children & young people who are adopted from care, in special guardianship, looked after by local authorities or on the edge of care.

Go to e-LfH website