There are increasing opportunities for nursery nurses to use their skills and work with community health teams. Judith Napier reports
Jobs for nursery nurses working with health visitors are a relatively recent development and there are several reasons for the increasing opportunities.
Health visitors are an ageing population and, as they retire, vacancies now tend to be assessed rather than automatically re-filled. Today NHS trusts are looking much more seriously at skill-mix options for their community teams.
Economics is part of the reason for this - nursery nurses command lower salaries - but so too is health visitors' changing caseload - increasingly, they are preoccupied with complex child protection and other priority issues.
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