Main area Children and young people 0-19 Public Health Service Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 267-CH7065604
Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Orchard Health Centre Town Banbury Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 02/05/2025
Operational Manager/Professional lead 0-19 Public health service
Band 8a
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Job overview
Are you a dedicated and dynamic health visitor/School health nurse /team lead wanting to further your career in clinical and operational leadership and management in the 0-19 Public health services? If so, this job is for you.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated health visitor /school nurse with operational and clinical management experience to lead our outstanding newly integrated 0-19 Public health service in Oxfordshire.
You will be responsible for the management, coordination, and clinical leadership of the 0-19 CYP Public Health Service within the north of the county (4 localities) as well providing countywide professional leadership within a set discipline within the service (either health visiting or school nursing).
The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under pressure at times. You will be a natural leader and a team player, who is committed to promoting excellent quality of care within a patient centred service. You will be able to foster strong relationships with clinical colleagues, partner agencies and drive through cultural change within the workforce where staff are empowered and encouraged to work to a continuous improvement model, ensuring good governance and processes for facilitating and agreeing changes.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the senior clinical lead, other operational managers, and team leads you will strive to continually improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities, and safeguard children and young people in Oxfordshire through the provision of an evidenced based and needs led service. You will take a lead role in developing teams and services to ensure there is effective and high-quality delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 years with an emphasis on integration of the Family Nurse Partnership, health visiting and school college nursing and partnership working and with other service leads across the children’s community pathway and other agencies.
The successful candidate will ensure optimum performance in the following key areas:
• service quality
• controls assurance
• clinical practice
• clinical governance
• compliance with all statutory regulations.
This role will be part of the relevant service management team on call rota and may involve working unsocial hours during evenings and at weekends as well as working in hours as service needs dictates to deliver direct clinical care within CYP 0-19 Public Health Service or to attend Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust meetings as required.
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
* 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
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
Qualification
* Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting or School Nursing), with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
* Professional/Managerial knowledge acquired through post graduate level study or equivalent operational experience
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* Educated to Master’s Level or equivalent
Experience
* Evidence of professional clinical leadership
* Demonstration of in-depth knowledge, understanding and experience of managing safeguarding processes and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
* Evidence of previous implementation of change within services
* Experience of significant budget management
* Evidence of multi-disciplinary and partnership working to develop integrated service delivery against pathways
* Evidence of developing service provision in response to strategic priorities
* Evidence of developing and implementing service development plans
* Able to proactively lead and support through transformational leadership
* Evidence of partnership working to develop integrated service delivery
* Experience of working within multi-agency to develop services and drive through change
* Evidence of ability to represent corporate views to partners and stakeholders
* Excellent communication skills and experience of successful communication under challenging circumstances
* Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with range of service users, stakeholders, and practitioners
* Experience/evidence of excellent team working
* 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Nicola Taylor Job title Service Manager / Senior Clinical Lead Email address nicola.taylor@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk Telephone number 07795287648 Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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