Healthy Child Programme Team Leader 0-19 | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Tameside & Glossop NHS FT; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 69,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave (27–33 days)

NHS Pension Scheme

Health checks and eye tests

Job summary

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Healthy Child Programme Team Leader for 0-19s. The role focuses on leading School Nurse teams, and ensuring the delivery of the HCP to children, young people and families within the locality.

You will provide professional leadership, clinical governance, and line management to neighbourhood teams, coordinating with partners to improve health outcomes and support staff development within a supportive leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme to children, young people and families in the locality.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership, and line management of neighbourhood teams.
• Ensure safe, high-quality services with clinical governance and multi-agency collaboration.

Job description

Healthy Child Programme Team Leader 0-19 | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Healthy Child Programme Team Leader 0-19: Permanent (37.5 hours)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) School Nurse to lead the delivery of our Healthy Child Programme Service in Tameside. You will lead and line manage School Nurse teams in Tameside. You will support the management structure within Health Visiting. You will be responsible for ensuring the smooth, safe and efficient day-to-day delivery of the HCP to children, young people and families in the locality, supporting your staff to deliver excellent services.

Our Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (25 SEND) Service for Health Visiting and School Nursing has a vision to improve health outcomes for our population and influence the wider determinants of health, through collaboration with the people of Tameside and Glossop and our health and care partners. We are currently progressing through an exciting service transformation in conjunction with all of our teams with excellent progress.

Your role will lead a multi-professional team within a locality in ensuring the high quality, safe and efficient delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 years to children, young people and families. Provide professional and clinical leadership, and line management of neighbourhood teams. Work closely and productively with multi-agency partners and stakeholders to ensure that positive outcomes are achieved for children and young people. Ensure the safe delivery and quality services are provided, keeping children central to all of our care. You will provide clinical oversight, line management, and assurance through clinical governance. You will support the team through the delivery of our public health agenda, service priorities and quality improvement projects. You will be part of a very supportive, inclusive and productive leadership team and will be given opportunities for development

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full personspecification, butoutlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

This advert closes on Thursday 26 Nov 2026