Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting)

Contribute positively to the new public health agenda, tackling health inequalities on an individual and community basis with the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) degree offered at Teesside University . Become an autonomous practitioner with the skills, knowledge, behaviours and experience to lead, influence and collaborate. Drive sustainable, inclusive and evidence-based changes to the health and wellbeing of people, communities and populations.

Key Facts

Build on your prior knowledge, skills and experience in a supportive and student-centred environment.

Approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), this course is structured to meet the NMC’s Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (2022). It leads to Part 3 registration as a specialist community public health nurse (health visiting).

Become an autonomous, resilient and dynamic practitioner, who can promote a critical enquiry of specialist community public health nursing practice, leading and delivering safe and effective interventions. Develop your confidence and independence in learning, while networking with other professionals to support interdisciplinary working.

Explore the changing and expanding role of the health visitor, including the bio-psychosocial needs of infants, children, parents and families. Develop a high level of cultural competence and advanced communication skills, to support holistic assessment and develop shared goals.

Gain skills and confidence to critically analyse and actively contribute to the public health agenda. Examine the protection and promotion of health and wellbeing, debating the challenges to service delivery in a theoretical, legal and ethical context. Understand the determinants of health, addressing health inequalities across diverse communities and the life course.

Developing leadership skills is integral to the role. You assess theories and enhance your own leadership philosophy. Collaborate with vulnerable populations and address the legal, ethical and professional issues associated with safeguarding. Evaluate the personal leadership skills you need to ensure the safety of vulnerable individuals and families, ensuring an inclusive and culturally safe approach.

Courses include:

• Advancing Community Practitioner Prescribing

• Advancing Health Visiting Practice

• Advancing Leadership and Management in the Context of Specialist Practice

• Advancing Public Health

• Contemporary Issues in Public Health

• Developing Research Projects

• Evaluating Practice

• Evidence-based Practice

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Practice