We are looking for a NCMP Practitioner (National Child Measurement Program) to join our fantastic team within HCRG Care Group. This is an exciting role to work with our local schools.
You will be going into classes to measure BMI and promote a healthy lifestyle.
You will work independently and manage your own caseload. This is a great opportunity to make a real change to a child’s life.
We care about work life balance, therefore this role has the opportunity to be taken on as a term time only contract, to which the salary would be pro rata. You will be based primarily in Mid Essex.
This role is fixed term to 31st December 2025. It is a Term-time only contract.
Package DescriptionAs a NCMP Practitioner, you will be part of our dynamic team within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£22,000 (FTE) with 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
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
Build and maintain good relationships with allocated schools to ensure successful completion of NCMP. This includes requesting class lists, booking school visits, sending parent/carer information, chasing up absent children, identifying child/parent NCMP opt outs and any children with additional needs.
Accurately weigh and measure the height of consenting children in Reception and Year 6 as part of NCMP and to check that they are growing healthily and identify any growth problems.
Undertake Vision screening of children in Reception as part of the School Entry Health Screening offer. Follow up any failed vision tests with parents and offer onward referral.
Liase with NCMP locality lead in managing own case load. Ensuring the full completion of NCMP screening and achieving set KPIs. Providing updated tally reports to ensure trajectories are kept up to date.
Engage with families as part of the NCMP programme and offer signposting and support where required
Offer brief interventions and health promotion advice to support children to achieve a healthy weight
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal CandidateThe ideal candidate will have:
Previous experience of working with children.
You must be able to have the confidence to liaise difficult conversations with children and parents regarding the health and wellbeing of a child. Every day you will be meeting new children, so it essential you are able to bring empathy and compassion to the role.
Relevant Health and social care or equivalent qualification, this can include the Care Certificate
Experience working with children, young people and families
Able to manage own time and work as part of a team
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal including telephone
Excellent listening skills, offering empathy and understanding and manage difficult conversations
All training will be provided.
Your cases will be throughout the Essex area, so it is essential to have a driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
About The CompanyWe 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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