Healthy Family Practitioner

Are you passionate about supporting children and families to thrive? Do you want to make a real difference in your local community? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Join HCRG Care Group as a Healthy Family Practitioner based in Skelmersdale and play a vital role in supporting children, young people, and families across Lancashire.

Working as part of the Young People & Healthy Families Service, you’ll collaborate closely with Health Visitors, School Nurses, and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, compassionate care. This is a rewarding community-based role where you’ll empower families, promote child development, and help improve long-term health outcomes.

This is a part-time fixed-term opportunity working 30 hours per week with a planned start date of September 2026.

What you'll be doing:

In this varied and impactful position, you will:

• Deliver key elements of the Healthy Child Programme, including developmental reviews (e.g. 1-year and 2–2.5-year checks)
• Support children and families with targeted interventions such as behaviour management and infant feeding
• Run community clinics and Healthy Family drop-in sessions
• Work directly with families in community settings, including home visits
• Build strong relationships with nurseries and local services
• Identify safeguarding concerns and escalate appropriately
• Encourage service uptake and act as an advocate for families’ needs and voices
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to service improvement

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about improving outcomes for children and families
• Confident working independently in community settings
• Knowledgeable about child development and early years milestones
• A strong communicator, able to engage effectively with families and professionals
• Organised, proactive, and committed to high-quality record keeping
• Dedicated to safeguarding and delivering safe, inclusive care

Essential Qualifications

• NNEB qualification or equivalent (e.g. BTEC National Diploma in Nursery Nursing, NVQ Level 3 Childcare & Education, Foundation Degree in Early Years/Education)

Essential Experience & Skills

• Experience in health promotion or public health activities
• Team working experience
• Awareness of safeguarding and child protection
• Strong understanding of child development and parenting
• Flexible approach to meet service needs
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team
• Accurate record keeping and ability to maintain high standards of documentation
• Ability to contribute to audit and research
• Competence in creating and implementing family‑centred action plans
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• IT literacy, including local and web‑based systems
• Commitment to continuous learning and development
• Understanding of clinical governance
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Why Join Us?

At HCRG Care Group, we’re committed to supporting our people as much as the communities we serve. You’ll benefit from:

• A supportive, multidisciplinary team environment
• Opportunities for professional development and training
• A role where you can make a real difference every day
• A strong focus on compassionate, person-centred care

Every day is varied, rewarding, and full of opportunities to grow.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Healthy Family Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £27, 674 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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