Bank Locality Clinical Manager (0-5 Services)

Tower Hamlets Gp Care Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular clinical, safeguarding andRest

Supervision and professional develp

Job summary

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is seeking a 0-5 Years Locality Clinical Manager to lead a multidisciplinary Health Visiting team within the Healthy Child Programme. You will oversee caseloads, ensure high-quality service delivery and support the Clinical Lead to meet key performance indicators across the locality.

You will supervise Band 6 Health Visitors and support staff while promoting evidence-based practice, safeguarding and professional development for the team in a dynamic primary care

Qualifications

• Educated to degree or Master’s level with the Nurse Prescribing qualification (NMC V100).
• Experience-leading health visiting teams and delivering public health programmes.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding, clinical governance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day work of locality team (Band 6 Health Visitors, Band 5 Community Staff Nurses, Band 4 Nursery Nurses).
• Deliver Healthy Child Programme and meet performance indicators.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to SCPHN students and newly qualified staff.

Skills

Team leadership

Clinical governance

Safeguarding

Education

Degree or Master’s with Nurse Prescribing (NMC V100)

Job description

Job summary

Are you an experienced Health Visitor ready to lead a team and shape services for young children and families?

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is looking for a 0-5 Years Locality Clinical Manager (LCM) to join the leadership team of our Health Visiting Service. You will lead and manage a locality team of Health Visitors, Community Staff Nurses, Nursery Nurses and Clinical Support Workers, making sure families receive a high-quality, evidence-based Healthy Child Programme.

You will support the Clinical Lead, make sure key performance indicators are met, and lead on one of the six High Impact Areas of the Healthy Child Programme across the service.

You will work closely with:

• The Head of Health Visiting and Clinical Leads
• Children's social care and Early Help
• GPs, maternity services and Family Hubs
• SEND, voluntary and community partners

In return, we offer:

• regular clinical, restorative and safeguarding supervision
• leadership and professional development
• mentorship and coaching a supportive, friendly team

Main duties of the job

• Lead and manage the day-to-day work of a locality team of Band 6 Health Visitors, Band 5 Community Staff Nurses and Band 4 Nursery Nurses and Clinical Support Workers, including caseload management, supervision, appraisal and line management.
• Make the best use of skills and resources to deliver the Healthy Child Programme, commissioned performance indicators and Care Group objectives.
• Lead one of the six High Impact Areas of the Healthy Child Programme.
• Make sure staff receive clinical, restorative and safeguarding supervision; support SCPHN and undergraduate students and preceptorship for newly qualified staff.
• Model evidence-based practice using ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2, NICE guidance, NMC standards, MECSH and the Family Partnership Model.
• Lead on safeguarding practice for vulnerable families, Children in Need and children on Child Protection Plans, using Signs of Safety, restorative approaches and Early Help Assessments.
• Support the identification and multi-disciplinary assessment of children with developmental delay, complex needs and SEND.
• Champion accurate EMIS record keeping and electronic diaries for safe caseload allocation, risk assessment and lone working.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Learn more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership: https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

• Innovation and support for primary care
• Being a great place to work
• Integrating primary and community care
• Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
• Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted: 27 October 2026

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: £29.73 an hour

Contract: Bank

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: E0136-26-0033

Job locations: First Floor, Island Health, 145 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3BQ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the most effective and efficient use of skills and resources to meet the needs of local children and families in line with the Public Health England (PHE) Healthy Child Programme (HCP), commissioned Service Specification performance indicators and the strategic objectives of Tower Hamlets GP Care Group.
• Successfully lead and deliver one of the 6 High Impact Areas of the PHE HCP.
• Support colleagues to appropriately refer, in partnership with families and other professionals, children requiring secondary assessment using the Signs of Safety and Restorative Approach Frameworks and the Early Help Assessment tools (eHA).
• Lead, manage and supervise team members to ensure successful delivery of clinical, restorative and safeguarding supervision, facilitating support and mentoring of both undergraduate nurses and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) students and preceptorship for newly qualified staff as per the National Midwifery Council (NMC) Guidance 2019.
• Ensure continuous high quality of service delivery by leading, modelling and promoting an evidence-based approach using the ASQ3 and ASQ SE assessments, NICE Guidance, National Service Frameworks, NMC standards, Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home visiting (MECSH) and Family Partnership approach.
• Lead and provide best practice evidence relating to safeguarding children to support and enable colleagues working with vulnerable families, Child in Need, or children subject to CP Plan. Work in partnership with parents and other agencies including undertaking FHA and eHA and Early Help referrals.
• Lead and contribute to the delivery of universal HCP and identify and contribute to the further multi-disciplinary assessment of children with developmental delay, special educational and complex needs and disability (SEND) to formulate their care plans and actively participate in their care 0-5 years old as UPP coded clients.
• Champion use of EMIS record keeping system and engage in and promote the use of electronic diaries to accurately reflect the working day and enable effective allocation of caseload work within the team and locality with additional reference to risk assessment, safety, mobile and lone working policies.
• Have full leadership and management responsibility for direct staff in locality (Band 6 Health Visitors and Band 4 Nursery Nurses) and provide clinical caseload management support, supervision and review, as well as line management responsibilities as proscribed in organisational Human Resources policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Educated to degree or Master's level, with the Nurse Prescribing qualification (NMC V100).
• Registered Nurse, Children's Nurse, Midwife or Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration, and a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) qualification.

Experience (Essential)

• Experience of making sure clinical practice is based on sound evidence and audit, and of quality improvement processes.
• Experience of effective collaborative working with partner organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors.

Skills and Abilities (Essential)

• Strong clinical skills in assessing child development and health and identifying vulnerable children and families, with knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and safeguarding, and the ability to delegate, prioritise and resolve conflict.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name: Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address: First Floor, Island Health, 145 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3BQ, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Lola Oloko, [e-mail], 07714741802