Health Visitor Team Lead

NHS; Willesden; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS seeks a Locality Team Leader for its Integrated Public Health Nursing Service in Willesden. This role involves managing a diverse team of Public Health Nurses, ensuring effective service delivery, and addressing the health needs of the local community.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive induction into the community service

Training, support and development in your career

Car lease scheme for Band 5 and up

Qualifications

• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification in school nursing or health visiting.
• Current NMC registration required.
• Experience in coordinating multi-skilled teams and health promotion initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage and delegate work to a defined locality team.
• Provide leadership and support to public health nursing teams.
• Coordinate health assessments and care planning.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Team Coordination

Health Promotion

Education

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification

Current NMC registration

Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife

Tools

IT Literacy

Job description

If you are ready for a Team Leader's position within an Integrated Public Health Nursing Service managing a progressive, forward thinking, and innovative team of Public Health Nurses then we would like to hear from you. A vacancy has arisen for a Locality Team Leader in the Brent Locality 0-19 service. This is a full-time post within the locality of Willesden.

In order to be eligible for this post, applicants must be a qualified Specialist Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) - Health Visiting.

Brent has a multi- cultural community, providing the opportunity to work with a diverse population As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for ensuring a safe and effective delivery of service and leadership with the implementation of the Healthy Child Programme within the Health Visiting Service and 0-5's Core Programme.

Your role will be to manage and delegate work to a defined locality team, ensuring appropriate skills are used to plan and deliver public health care identified within the core programme. In addition, you will have an overview of the profiled health needs for the local community ensuring that the 0-19 service meets the needs of the local population that resources are utilised effectively, and any service gaps identified and addressed. This is to include meeting the requirements of the service level agreements and the school health profiles.

Current NMC registration is required for this role

Main duties of the job

You will be of support for members of the team and attend meetings as and when required and feedback to the Locality Lead and take on extra responsibilities within the service, as requested by the Locality Lead and Clinical Services Unit Manager (CSU).

You will provide professional leadership and management for the 0-19 Public Health Nursing Teams, particularly in relation to caseload management and leading the development of staff.

We work very closely with our partner agencies to enrich the mix of skills available and strengthen our position as a service provider. Working within the area of Willesden are Health Visitors, School Health Nurses, Community Nursery Nurses, Infant Feeding.

You need to have a passion for working with children, young people and families and have a comprehensive understanding of the Public Health Agenda in Brent. It is essential that you also have a thorough knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme (0-19), and Central London Community Healthcare Values.

It is essential applicants can meet the travel requirements of the post.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job responsibilities

• To establish and maintain a good working relationship with colleagues, the wider CSU health care team and other health, education, and social care providers, to provide a comprehensive service to clients
• To provide facilitative and supportive leadership and management to the public health team members
• To have line management responsibility for the team including authorising annual leave via Allocate, monitoring of sickness absence, recruitment, performance management and application of HR policies as necessary including accurate recording
• To initiate and where appropriate take the lead responsibility for service development activities.
• Together with colleagues across the CLCH NHS Trust identify and manage the levels of staffing required to meet service needs utilising established resources
• To ensure the even distribution of work amongst team members, delegating and assigning roles and work as necessary to meet statutory and locally agreed deadlines
• Assist and where appropriate lead on all elements of the recruitment and selection of staff
• To take appropriate action regarding any accident or incident to client, staff or visitor within the scope of the post holders responsibility and in line with CLCH NHS Trust policy, and to report on DATIX
• To be responsible for the care and safekeeping of equipment issued for personal and team use within the scope of the post holders responsibility and in line with CLCH NHS Trust policy.
• To actively chair and participate in and record team meetings
• To be a member of working parties and groups e.g., shared governance and quality improvement considering aspects of the service and professional practice as required
• To apply equal opportunities in practice considering own behaviour and the needs of clients and colleagues
• To assist in monitoring related budgets, and ensuring budgetary issues are considered in the development and provision of the service with the Clinical Lead
• To deputise for the Clinical Lead as agreed
• To work collaboratively with the Professional Lead for Childrens Nursing on aspects of clinical practice
• To set objectives and review performance for team members identifying individual training and development needs ensuring all staff in the team are participating in managerial supervision at 4-6 weekly 1:1s

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification- school nursing or health visiting BSc or diploma
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
• Mentor training
• IT Literate
• PHSE credited course
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g., Epilepsy, allergies

Experience

• Experience of coordinating and leading multi-skilled teams
• Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
• Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working.
• Ability to facilitate joint working practices
• Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning, and implementing evidence-based programmes of care
• Experience of developing the public health agenda
• Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
• Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision.
• Experience of innovative practice or project management.
• Experience of line managing team members
• Experience of developing clinical standards and protocols.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£51,883 to £58,544 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS