School Nurse Team Leader

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Operational and Professional Head of School Nursing and the senior management team to:

• Deliver operationally efficient and effective services
• Co-ordination of the team to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources
• Collaborate with colleagues using a Quality Improvement approach to identify and implement change to drive quality and effective delivery of care
• Provide strong professional leadership
• Adopt corporate and clinical governance and best practice principles in service delivery
• Ensure effective performance management using audit and evaluation tools, monitoring, reporting mechanisms and other systems
• ensure high quality service to meet the needs of the local population with knowledge and understanding of community assets available to them
• Take the lead on service innovation and development to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
• Lead on quality improvements to ensure the school nursing service is agile and able to adapt to the needs of families of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.