Anyone doing HV training or is already one?

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Hi, I'm a RN adult trained, just had DD2 and due to return back to work (On bank in a trust) and I really want to look into doing my health visitor training. I believe its a 1yr course if your already nurse trained? Can anybody shed light?
How much time was spent in class room/out in community/self guided learning etc?

Marking my place, I would like to do it next year.

It is one year, you generally need to apply to a community pct (or whatever they are called now!) and the university, the pct sponsor you. Is one year. IIRC you get band 5 pay during training.

Wow, That helps a lot. Thanks Ghoulish Been wondering about pay. I've had my fill of ward work.
Hope someone comes along that can enlighten us both some more!

No, and I know nothing about it other than I have a friend who is a nurse. She has always worked A&E, and recently did a stint in a private hospital. Howver she just started training as an HV and is doing a two year part time course.

Hi
This too is a course I'm interested in, having spent some time working for the health visiting teams as a staff nurse.What I've discovered is that ...

you need to be a RN at diploma level ( 240 credits at level 2) to get on the course.Or you need to have taken lots of short courses to make up the credits to 240. I'm currently in the process of taking other short modules to make up those credits as I trained a long time ago & am RGN.
The placements as generally advertised on the nhs job website- you apply to each PCT individually as they second you onto the course and you do the practical side with them. You also have to apply to the uni for a place on the course separately and prove to them that you have the placement side covered. I think there probably is some sort of system to link these two things together. The course is 1 year full time or 2 years part time, with I think a day/wk at uni and the rest out in the community; it is also all year round, not just uni academic year.
You have a community practice teacher/mentor and she supervises your practice. By the end you will have a case load of your own to manage. You're paid at band 5 for the duration of the course and most HV's where I am start on band 6. Most entry seems to be September and the placements start getting advertised in Jan/Feb.
There's a huge recruitment drive for HV's and with it a push to get the uni's to consider people who have the makings of a good HV but not necessarily the uni credits. There is also talk of it becoming direct entry , similar to midwifery, in the next few years.
Apols for the long reply- it's a subject fairly close to my heart!

Hal.

Hello I am a school nurse and a practice teacher for school nurse students - its the same course school nurses and health visitors do and its 50% in uni and 50%practice its a 1yr course so 52wks full time and you def need it esp if no previous community experience. Its hard work I did it 6yrs ago now and had been school nursing 18mths before doing it. Most secondment places are at a band 5 and if not already employed within the trust and they chose to advertise for applicants its very very competitive I know in our local area for 5 places they interviewed 40!!

Def worth looking into and with the government push for more health visitors they will have to train more,