Health Visiting Service Locality Manager
We have new and exciting opportunities to join our dynamic, committed and integrated Early Help Service.
We are looking for a highly motivated Health Visiting Locality Manager to join our leadership team which consists of both ESCC and ESHT managers. Your role will be to support, motivate and inspire the skills mix team which consists of administrators, Community Nursery Nurses, Community Staff Nurses, Health Visitors and Practice Educators to deliver a high quality Healthy Child Programme.
Vacancy sites:
* Locality Manager 30 hrs for Eastbourne Health Visiting Team
For more information about our teams and why you should join us click here - Health visiting in East Sussex
Interviews dates TBC
Main duties of the job
As a Locality Manager, you will manage a skills mix Health Visiting team while working closely with Keywork and Community staff. You will require a sound knowledge of public health, safeguarding, and working with complex families. We will offer you a high level of management support, and you will work closely with your Locality, Practice and Community Support Manager colleagues and Operations Manager to further develop the integrated services. You will need an appropriate professional qualification and significant experience of working with children and families. You will provide and receive high quality regular supervision in line with the ESHT and ESCC Early Help policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
East Sussex County Council in partnership with East Sussex Healthcare Trust is one of 75 Local Authorities to have been awarded government funding to establish a Start for Life Strategy and Family Hubs Programme for children aged 0-19. This funding will allow us to develop services to give babies, children, and their families the very best start in life with a focus on Parent Infant Relationships, Infant Feeding, supporting Children with Additional Needs, and Parenting Strategies. This is a great opportunity to extend our reach into the communities of East Sussex, and we invite you to join us by applying for one of the various roles we have to offer as detailed below. We can offer career progression right through to leadership roles at 8a.
* The opportunity to work closely with specialist services, keyworkers, and other partners supporting your families; signposting and referring to services based on the unique needs of the families you work with, such as Toddler Talk, parenting courses, baby groups, volunteering, life skills. You will be able to continue to develop your knowledge of safeguarding children, recognising concerns and how to escalate them appropriately, providing preventative and educative support for families.
* You will be working as part of an integrated NHS-County Council team with access to good quality resources and training, development opportunities via delivery of clinical supervision and champion roles and involvement in service development and quality improvement via working groups and audit.
Person Specification
Key Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Ability to inspire, motivate, influence and direct the work of others and the ability to both think strategically and attend to operational detail.
* Demonstrable ability to recognise, understand and take account of different agency cultures in establishing effective multi-agency partnerships.
* The ability to assess, understand and manage risk appropriately and support front line staff who undertake case work with vulnerable children.
* The ability to interpret and analyse information to evaluate performance against agreed targets and desired outcomes.
* Ability to deal with challenging situations with tact and diplomacy.
Education & Qualifications
Essential
* Appropriate professional registration to degree level e.g. Social Worker or Health Visitor or equivalent qualification in a relevant area.
* Significant experience of managing safeguarding services within 0-5 provision.
Desirable
* Professional healthcare qualification, with current registration or qualified Social Worker.
* Relevant master's degree.
Knowledge
Essential
* Working knowledge of structure, functions, culture and values of NHS and/or CSD and relationship with other agencies.
* In-depth knowledge of relevant statutory legislation, responsibilities and frameworks for the services managed.
Desirable
* Enhanced skills in a clinical or relevant professional specialism.
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience as a band 6 HV or in leading the delivery of family support services.
* Experience of taking a lead role in safeguarding and making decisions autonomously when necessary.
* Experience of maintaining appropriate records that can be requested as part of court proceedings where cases escalate.
* Experience of liaising and working in partnership with other agencies to support children and families.
Desirable
* Relevant experience in a similar role in NHS / CSD.
* Experience of undertaking service improvement audit.
* Project management.
* Experience of supervising and/or working with complex families who have had, or currently have, social care involvement and providing alternative strategies to facilitate change in families.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* A commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice.
* Ability to make decisions when dealing with constant and conflicting demands on time.
* Logical, innovative, decisive, change-oriented, team worker.
* Provide leadership and promote a collaborative multi-agency working environment.
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
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Eastbourne St Marys House
Eastbourne
BN21 3UU
Employer's website
http://jobs.esht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum / pro rata
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