Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Integrated Specialist Public Health Nursing (ISPHN) service for a 18 month secondment ( until as a Clinical Team Leader to manage the East ISPHN teams and East Riding School Nursing Team. For external candidates a fixed term contract of 18 months until will be considered.
The role of the ISPHN Clinical Team Leader is diverse with opportunities to develop the new commissioned service as part of the wider leadership team. The Clinical Team Leader will manage two public health teams in one locality area ( North and South Holderness) and in addition lead on specialist areas. You will be responsible for providing clinical, professional, and organisational leadership ensuring delivery of the ISPHN service and supporting the team to meet required Key Performance Indicators for service monitoring. You will also lead on service delivery and provide support and advice on service development in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers, and other agencies across the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will manage staff across two ISPHN teams in one locality area ensuring that the Healthy Child Programme is delivered well, and work is managed safely across the teams. You will support staff wellbeing and ensure that practitioners have all essential resources and training to provide excellent care across the East Riding of Yorkshire.
We are looking for a motivated Health Visitor or School Nurse who is passionate about providing excellent services to families, children, and young people locally. We would like the successful candidate to have the experience and skills to develop areas of the service and to work within the wider leadership team to lead on projects and larger service development.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
1. Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, Children Act, Social Inclusion
2. Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
3. Good IT skills
4. Mental Health legislation relevant to the clinical area
5. Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility
Desirable
6. Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally
7. Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
8. Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area
9.. Detailed understanding of all current Child health legislation
10. Evidence of undertaking research
11. Evidence of policy implementation and development
12. Working knowledge of required IT systems
Experience
Essential
13. Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
14. Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
15. Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
16. Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
17. Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
18. Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
19. Professional networking locally and regionally
20. Be able to effectively Chair meetings
Desirable
21. A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
22. Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced/expert level
23. Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
24. Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
25. Management of delegated budgets
Qualifications
Essential
26. Current NMC professional registration of Qualified NMC Part 3 Register - annotated health Visitor or School Nurse
27. Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
28. Educated to Masters Level or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience
29. Prepared to undertake or hold a recognised non-medical prescribing qualification, if required
Desirable
30. Teaching qualification (Practice Teacher)
31. Advanced/expert clinical qualification
32. Prepared to undertake or hold an accredited leadership qualification
Personal attributes
Essential
33. Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
34. Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
35. Good time management skills
36. Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
37. Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
38. Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
39. Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
Desirable
40. Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels strategically and locally
41. Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level
Effort and Environment
Essential
42. Ability to commute between the various sites
43. Demonstrate mandatory training and attendance for the management of violence and aggression
44. Requirement of frequent concentration assessments, care plans. The work will be unpredictable
45. Frequent exposure to emotional or distressing circumstances
46. Some exposure to hazards verbal aggression, bodily fluids