Band 7 Clinical Team Leader - Healthy Together

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; Leicester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust in Leicester City is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Team Leader to head the Healthy Together 0-5 Team. The role is 37.5 hours per week within the Families, Young People, Children’s and Learning Disability Directorate, driving high-quality public health nursing for babies, children and families.

You will provide operational and clinical leadership, ensure safe practice, support staff development, and lead service transformation across the neighbourhood.

Responsibilities

• Clinical work to include a variety of face to face clinical work with children and families.
• Accountable for updating and maintaining knowledge and skills as Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and Team Leader.
• Responsible for equitable caseload management, delegating to team members and escalating risks to prevent harm.
• Be a safeguarding expert within the team, offering support, supervision and escalation of concerns.
• Lead the Healthy Together team with systems for preceptorship, mentorship, appraisals, performance management and clinical supervision.

Job description

Job Overview

Band 7 Clinical Team Leader - Healthy Together (0-5 Health Visiting)

Leicester City 37.5 Hours per Week

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Families, Young People, Children's and Learning Disability Directorate for a Clinical Team Leader (CTL) to lead our Healthy Together 0-5 Team in Leicester City.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) who is passionate about improving outcomes for babies, children and families. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner with strong leadership skills who can support service transformation and the delivery of high-quality services across Leicester City.

As a Clinical Team Leader, you will provide operational and clinical leadership within a Healthy Together 0-5 Team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality services for children and families. You will be responsible for performance, quality, safeguarding, staff development, service improvement and partnership working within a defined neighbourhood.

You will need to have the skills and qualities to lead our friendly, child-focused team, promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement and professional development. We are looking for someone who is confident in providing strong clinical leadership and oversight, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based practice while supporting staff to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and families.

Working closely with statutory, voluntary and community partners, you will help shape and develop integrated neighbourhood services, support vulnerable and hard-to-reach families, drive public health initiatives and ensure services are responsive to local population needs. You will play a key role in developing local services, improving performance, and embedding innovation and best practice across the neighbourhood.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking leadership team and make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and families across Leicester City.

Car Owner/driver And Current Driving License Essential.

Contact details: Sam Newby, Family Service Manager email: [e-mail]

or Lisa Murray Family Service Manager email: [e-mail]

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

• Clinical Work to include a variety of face to face clinical work with children and families.
• Accountable and responsible as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and Team Leader for updating and maintaining own knowledge and skills.
• To be responsible for the management of equitable caseloads, delegating appropriately to team members, identifying gaps in service provision and escalating risks to prevent harm and poor outcomes.
• Be a safeguarding expert within the team, offering support, supervision, escalating concerns and offering support to practitioners.
• Co-ordination and leadership of the Healthy Together team, ensuring that there are systems in place for preceptorship, mentorship, appraisals, performance management, clinical supervision, training and development.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.