Locality Team Leader/Specialist Lead Practitioner

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wantage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Locality Team Leader for the new CYP 0-19 Public Health Service in Wantage. This role involves managing a locality team, improving health outcomes for children and families, and demonstrating strong leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate will have a background in Health Visiting or School Nursing and will be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

NHS Discount across various retailers

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Cycle to work scheme

Career progression opportunities

Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)

Qualifications

• SCPHN qualification required for Health Visiting or School Nursing.
• Significant experience working with children and families.
• Evidence of professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate a locality within the 0-19 CYP Public Health Service.
• Improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities.
• Ensure compliance with statutory regulations.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Compassion

Education

SCPHN course Health Visiting/School Nursing

Masters Level (Desirable)

Job description

Do you have a School Nursing and/ or Health Visiting qualification (SCPHN) and relevant experience?

Do you want to lead a specialist area of interest within the 0-19 service?

Following the successful tender for the new CYP 0-19yrs Public Health Service, we have an opportunity to appoint a Locality Team Leader to be part of the new CYP 0-19 Public Health Service, bringing together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership.

You will be working alongside members of the leadership team to implement and embed the new service model, across the county, to provide an effective, safe and comprehensive service to Oxfordshire children and families.

We have 1 locality team leader post available in the South West locality covering the Wantage and Faringdon areas.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the management, coordination, and clinical leadership of a locality within the countywide 0-19 CYP Public Health Service. You will be working with the leadership team to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities, and safeguard children and young people in Oxfordshire through the provision of an evidenced based and needs led service. Acting as a role model for practitioners, demonstrating a high level of professional behaviours, incorporating the core values and strategy of the Trust youwill ensure optimum performance within a defined locality in the following key areas:

• Service quality
• Controls assurance
• Clinical practice
• Clinical governance
• Compliance with all statutory regulations.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will need to have a thorough understanding of the commissioning priorities, the Service Specification, Trust Strategy, Department of Health priorities, Care Quality Care requirements and other local & national documents.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• SCPHN course Health Visiting/School Nursing
• Evidence of Professional development

Desirable criteria

• Educated to Masters Level

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working with children, young people and families
• Community experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of multi disciplinary working
• Implementation of change

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with service users, stakeholders and practitioners
• Caring and compassionate attitude

Desirable criteria

• Courage to speak up when concerned and challenge and be challenged

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.

Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.

We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.

Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.

We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing