Guidance

Recruitment process for health visiting programmes: personal and professional attributes

The process of recruitment and selection for students applying to health visitor programmes.

Documents

Health visiting attributes

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Health visiting integrated model

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Health visitors: Q&A for GPs

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Health visitors: Q&A for local government

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Health visitor factsheet

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Details

These documents are for higher education institutions to support and inform how they recruit and select students wishing to join health visitor programmes.

The documents outline the personal and professional attributes needed for the health visitor role.

Getting it right for children, young people and families

Published 12 March 2012
Last updated 2 October 2015 + show all updates
  1. New health visiting and midwifery pathway uploaded.

  2. First published.