Job Summary
North Tyneside Council is seeking to recruit qualified Health Visitor (SCPHN) Team Lead to work within the 0-19 Children's Public Health Service.
Would you like to be part of an innovative skill mix team of school nurses, HVs, public health staff nurses, and child development practitioners?
This is your chance to work with an outstanding group of safeguarding and health professionals. The service has close working relationships with the early help service, multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH), education, housing, primary care, maternity services, and sport and leisure which ensures good outcomes for families and provides positive working relationships for staff.
The Signs of Safety model is embedded throughout the service and robust safeguarding supervision is provided to colleagues by Safeguarding Nurse Advisors. North Tyneside Children's Social Care was graded outstanding by Ofsted in 2024. Colleagues are provided with support and supervision from the Nurse Manager throughout their probationary period and beyond and have access to an identified preceptor.
The Team Lead will work closely with the management team to meet national, local, and service priorities. The post holder will work with the Nurse Manager and hold an 80% WTE caseload. The Team Lead will be expected to undertake the role of the Practice Assessor for SCPHN students.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for leading on the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme within the context of integrated prevention and early help. They will ensure universal contact is offered for the five nationally mandated reviews. Additional support and targeted interventions will be offered to those families where additional need is identified. 0-19 colleagues use Parentline, a confidential texting service as additional support for families in North Tyneside.
The Essential Requirements Of The Post Are
1. 1st level NMC registration / Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) qualification with three years SCPHN experience.
2. Experience in a leadership role, supervisory experience, and the ability to meet the travel requirements of the post.
The 0-19 service offers opportunity for career progression and provides an atmosphere of continuous professional development with supervision and assessment of pre and post-registration students.
About Us
Benefits include:
* Access to NHS or Local Government Pension Schemes.
* A generous annual leave allowance, which increases with service, plus bank holidays.
* Your annual NMC fees are paid for by the service. Professional membership of iHV.
* Agile Working supported by smartphone/laptop and access to technology such as Microsoft Teams and SystmOne.
* Access to Occupational Health services including physiotherapy and counselling.
* Our Employee Assistance programme which includes a telephone helpline and extensive online resources for support and advice.
* Discounted membership of fitness and wellbeing centres, including 5 gyms.
* The Benefits Plus Scheme enabling salary sacrifice for additional annual leave; Childcare Vouchers; Car Leasing; Cycle to Work scheme.
For information about North Tyneside Council, the benefits of working for us, and the many attractions of working and living in North Tyneside please see the councils About Us pages on www.northeastjobs.org.uk.
North Tyneside Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and adults at risk of harm. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and to familiarise themselves with all relevant policies, procedures, and guidance. Within North Tyneside, safeguarding is everybody's business.
Date posted: 29 January 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary: £47,754 to £52,805 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: F0030-25-0002
Job locations
Cobalt Business Park, Silverlink North, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY
Job Description
Job responsibilities
The purpose of the job is to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people, and families and address inequalities, as a specialist community public health nurse through the delivery of the healthy child programme and leading a skill mixed team of practitioners within the 0-19 Children's Public Health Service (CPHS).
The Team Lead provides effective management of a caseload, deploying the appropriate resources to meet the needs of families and ensures that practitioners in the team are competent, confident, and focused on developing and maintaining professional expertise and evidence-based practice.
The Team Lead is accountable for the consistency and quality of individual and team practice and performance in undertaking family health needs assessments and analysis of strengths and risks, planning, implementing and reviewing interventions that offer effective support.
The Team Lead provides emotionally intelligent, reflective supervision to all professionally qualified and unqualified practitioners within the team and is responsible for supporting the health and wellbeing of all team members in line with their duty of care.
The Team Lead is responsible for developing and maintaining effective partnership working with local agencies and groups in the team area, for example police, health services, early help, children's social care, schools, and voluntary/community groups.
The Team Lead supports the team to prepare for and contribute to successful CQC inspections.
Providing, promoting and leading excellent practice
* Shapes and influences a multi-disciplinary team environment which enables excellent practice by setting high standards and motivating others to do the same. Leads by example, showing integrity, creativity, resilience and clarity of purpose with a holistic understanding of professional standards in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Develops, supports, and works alongside the team to provide a full range of mandated duties and the deliverance of the Healthy Child Programme.
* Establishes, develops, and delivers best practice collaborative working with other agencies and professionals, including integrated working with key partners; providing advice and consultancy to support other professionals and agencies to meet the welfare and safeguarding needs of children and young people.
* Is accountable for ensuring the highest professional standards and professional conduct.
* Seeks feedback and routinely integrates the expertise and knowledge of children, families, carers, and professionals into practice by promoting and evidencing the meaningful participation of children, young people, and parents/carers in the processes of key decision making.
Developing safe and caring practitioners
* Works positively to promote a learning culture within the team, demonstrating a commitment to CPD for all team members.
* Learns from experience; maintaining and disseminating an excellent understanding of current research; using evidence-based practice in assessment and planning, and guidance, policy, and legislation to devise effective interventions, which are most likely to support children, young people, and families.
* Recognises, respects, and values the expertise of practitioners and creates and maintains a culture of professional curiosity.
* Understands, promotes, and integrates into practice Council policies on valuing diversity and promoting equalities, achieving cultural competence across the team.
* Provides a safe, calm and well-ordered environment for all staff, ensuring that processes are fit for purpose and efficient.
* Creates an ethos within which team members are motivated and supported to be ambitious on behalf of children and families.
* Facilitates critically reflective thinking and practice.
* Offers constructive advice and creative, strength-based solutions to difficulties.
* Responds positively to well-founded criticism from service users and other professionals with a commitment to learn and to change.
* Supports pre-registered nursing students.
* Supervises and assesses SCPHN students.
Effective teamwork
* Develops and maintains a positive team culture and workplace that supports the health and wellbeing of staff, improves standards for attendance at work; takes appropriate management action when the attendance of individual staff falls below the required standards.
* Takes appropriate management action to address serious and persistent shortfalls in practice quality standards, taking a proportionate approach to supporting staff to achieve the required standards and differentiating between capability and conduct when shortfalls persist.
* Maximises opportunities for children and families to make informed choices, inviting challenge and debate and being accessible to children, families, and professionals.
Confident assessment and decision-making
* Creates a culture of focused thinking which consistently explores a wide range of contexts.
* Helps practitioners to make decisions based on observations and analyses, taking account of the wishes and feelings of children and families.
* Ensures that practitioners are ambitious for children and families and that the long-term and lifelong consequences of decisions are fully considered at all stages of planning and review, and that relationship-based interventions provide opportunities to test current hypotheses and dominant perspectives.
* Supports practitioners to always communicate clearly, honestly and respectfully the purpose and content of a plan with confidence and competence in verbal and written communication. This includes high quality, clear reports to professional meetings.
* Ensures records provide the full analysis underpinning decisions, making sure the rationale for why and how decisions have been made is comprehensive and well expressed.
Effective community public health nursing practice
* Ensures practitioners adopt an approach to practice which is timely, evidenced based and proportionate to identified risk and need. Supports practitioners to keep accurate and up-to-date patient records on SystmOne.
Emotionally intelligent practice supervision
* Supports practitioners by providing high quality, emotionally intelligent supervision, achieving an appropriate balance between critical reflective practice and accountability for tasks, standards, and targets.
* Provides advice, consultation, mentoring, supervision and appraisal support to team members, in 1:1 and group settings to promote reflective thinking.
Improving Performance
* Contributes to and provides professional leadership of performance management and improvement.
* Improves the consistency and quality of practice in line with agreed standards through developing a team learning and performance culture; effective management oversight; and taking appropriate management action to support individuals who are unable to achieve the required practice quality standards consistently.
* Implements Performance Management processes including reviewing and signing off the quality of work; undertaking case audits; investigating shortfalls; contributing to service quality assurance planning.
* Complies with the full range of the Councils employment relations policies.
* Fulfils all the requirements of registration with NMC.
* Undertakes any other duties required of the role and commensurate to the grade for the role.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
* Proven ability to provide advice, consultation, mentoring, supervision and appraisal support to professionally qualified and unqualified practitioners, those in training.
* Ability to undertake formal employment relations policies and procedures to address serious or persistent shortfalls in attendance, capability and/or conduct of individual staff in line with a management culture of learning not blaming and management standards for fairness and reasonableness.
* Proven ability to work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies, including identifying and procuring relevant services to support children, young people and families.
Qualifications Essential
* Registered Nurse/Midwife
* Degree / diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
* At least 3 years experience as a SCPHN
* Supervisor and/or management training / qualification
Desirable
* Qualification in leadership/ management/ coaching/ mentoring
Knowledge Essential
* A high level of specific and applied professional expertise in specialist community public health nursing practice.
* Excellent knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme.
* Applied knowledge and understanding of the needs and risks of a diverse range of children, young people and their parents/carers, promoting their full involvement in decision making, taking into account issues of equality and diversity.
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.
Employer details
Employer name: North Tyneside Council
Address: Cobalt Business Park, Silverlink North, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY
Employer's website: https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/
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