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:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. 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
Essential criteria
12. Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting or School Nursing), with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
13. Professional/Managerial knowledge acquired through post graduate level study or equivalent operational experience
14. Evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable criteria
15. Educated to Master’s Level or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
16. Evidence of professional clinical leadership
17. 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
18. Evidence of previous implementation of change within services
19. Experience of significant budget management
20. Evidence of multi-disciplinary and partnership working to develop integrated service delivery against pathways
21. Evidence of developing service provision in response to strategic priorities
22. Evidence of developing and implementing service development plans
23. Able to proactively lead and support through transformational leadership
Desirable criteria
24. Evidence of partnership working to develop integrated service delivery
25. Experience of working within multi-agency to develop services and drive through change
26. Evidence of ability to represent corporate views to partners and stakeholders
personal qualities
Essential criteria
27. Excellent communication skills and experience of successful communication under challenging circumstances
28. Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with range of service users, stakeholders, and practitioners
29. Experience/evidence of excellent team working
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
37. 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