School Health Team Manager

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an experienced School Nurse (SCPHN) to manage a School Health team in Sefton. The role involves clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality service delivery for children and families. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and experience in team management, contributing to the Healthy Child Programme. The position is full-time and offers an opportunity to make a significant difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and managing a team in a healthcare setting.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to provide clinical leadership and management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the school nursing team in Sefton.
• Ensure high-quality service delivery for children and families.
• Provide clinical leadership and mentorship to the team.

Education

School Nurse (SCPHN) qualification

Job description

About the role

Are you a experienced SCPHN, who leads with compassion, pride and vision?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated School Nurse (SCPHN) to lead and manage one of our School Health teams in Sefton. You will have excellent communication skills and meet all the requirements of the job description and person specification.

If you are an experienced inspirational leader with good communication and management skills, we would like to hear from you.

The band 7 post is being offered at 37.5 hours per week on a permanent basis.

The applicant must hold a SCPHN qualification - recorded on the NMC database.

The Team Manager is responsible for the management and leadership of the school nursing team within the community, to ensure the delivery of a safe, high-quality, evidence-based service for children, and their families.

The successful candidate will be working within the Sefton 0-19 (upto 25 send) service. Leading a team of school nurses and skill mix support staff delivering the Healthy Child Programme.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team working alongside other colleagues, team managers, services and key stakeholders.

The post holder will ensure that the school health team works proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to children and families in both planned and unplanned care needs to deliver the Healthy Child Programme in Sefton to school aged children.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Key responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
• Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
• Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
• Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
• Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
• Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
• Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
• Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
• Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
• Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
• Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
• Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
• Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
• Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
• Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long‑term conditions and end‑of‑life/palliative care.
• Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
• Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.
• Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.
• Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
• Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
• Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
• Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
• Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
• Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
• Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members.
• Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.
• Have up to date PDPs, monitor Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and reviews.

Qualifications and experience

The applicant must hold a School Nurse (SCPHN) qualification recorded on the NMC database. Experience and excellent communication skills are required. Applicants should be experienced inspirational leaders with good communication and management skills.

This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Jan 2026.