“Regarding your health visiting teams for Devon County Council on the 1st February 2020:
1. How many full time equivalent (FTE) health visitors were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
65.14 FTE Band 6 (or equivalent)
10.92 FTE Band 7
4.0 FTE at Band 8a
1.0 FTE at Band 8b
(Total 81.06 FTE)
NHS Pay Band salary details are available via the link provided.
2. How many full time equivalent (FTE) health visitors with caseload were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
65.14 FTE Band 6 (or equivalent)
3. How many FTE clinical staff who are NOT coded as health visitors were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
34.33 FTE Band 4 (or equivalent)
12.8 FTE Band 5 (or equivalent)
1.0 FTE Band 8b
(Total 48.13 FTE)
4. How many FTE clinical staff who are NOT coded as health visitors with caseload were employed in your health visiting teams? Please provide this information broken down by NHS pay band.
34.33 FTE Band 4 (or equivalent)
3.8 FTE Band 5 (or equivalent)
5. What was the total caseload (number of children under-5 years of age) of your health visiting teams?
557 per FTE Health Visitor
Regarding how Covid-19 and NHS England’s ‘Covid-19 prioritisation within Community Health Services’ that was announced on the 19th March 2020 has affected your health visiting teams for Devon County Council:
6. What is the maximum number of FTE health visitors that have been/were redeployed because of COVID-19 to date? Please also provide the date that the information refers to.
Zero.
7. What is the maximum number of FTE clinical staff working exclusively in health visiting teams (NOT coded as health visitors) that have been/were redeployed because of Covid-19 to date? Please also provide the date that the information refers to.
* These staff may be in the following roles: SCPHN school nurses, skill mix staff community nursery nurses, staff nurses in health visiting teams, student health visitors and other skill mix staff working directly with families.
* If possible, where a practitioner has a split role and does not work exclusively for a HV team, please only report on the number of WTE that work exclusively for the HV team.
None.