The post holder will be a member of the 0-19 public health team delivering an evidenced based and needs led service for children, young people and their families in line with the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). Supported by the clinical team lead, the post holder will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of health needs, including the development, implementation and evaluation/audit of evidence based interventions. She/he will take responsibility for ensuring the quality and standard of care and delivery of a service to improve outcomes for children and families. The post holder will participate in delivering a universal core service, and provide targeted interventions, to address health inequalities, where necessary referring to specialist services. This role will also include safeguarding responsibilities, mentorship of students (pre and post registration), line management of a skill mixed 0-19 team and staff appraisals. Principal duties to include: Work collaboratively with the skill mixed health visiting team to ensure equity of service provision, promoting good practice and the sharing of resources. Prioritise own work in line with areas of highest risk or client groups with greatest health need, delegating other work to the wider skill mixed team whilst providing the team with supervision and support Facilitate good team working, through effective leadership skills delegating and supervising the work of a skill mixed team to ensure efficient delivery of the 0-5 HCP Assist in meeting public health targets e.g. teenage sexual health, accident prevention, breast feeding, immunisation, smoking cessation and obesity Undertake continued responsibility for the management of a caseload Build and develop good working relationships with childrens centres, midwifery, GP practices and the wider multi-disciplinary team. Work collaboratively with all relevant agencies to influence/develop policies which will enhance health Be responsible for organisation, prioritisation and planning of health promotion activities, by assessing local health needs and promote key health topics to meet All our health 2016 DH targets Where appropriate work with Children and Family Health Surrey (CFHS) Nurse prescribing lead to prescribe in line with local and national policy guidelines. Make Every Contact Countwith children, and their families in a variety of community settings e.g home, children centres, nurseries Undertake well child clinic sessions within agreed venues and children centres Assist in the planning and where appropriate in the delivery of continence assessments Identify and support children and families who have unmet health needs, providing support and targeted interventions and where necessary referring to specialist services Participate in prevention and early detection of all categories of abuse in all age groups Take appropriate action in cases of suspected or actual child abuse, working within Surrey safeguarding childrens code of practice and procedures Attend child protection conferences/core groups as required and contribute to the development of the protection plans and decision making processes, within the multi-agency setting Participate in safeguarding supervision Ensure that clear concise reports are written and that organisational record keeping guidelines are adhered to Assist in research, participate in clinical audit and evaluation of service including the monitoring of records of others within the 0-19 team Undertake health needs assessments for children who are looked after Support and attend group clinical supervision as per organisation policy Actively participating in steering groups to develop HV practice guidelines Supervise junior members of the skill mixed 0-19 team as directed by the Clinical Team Lead and undertake junior staff Personal development Review (PDR) appraisals and direct line management. Contribute to the pre and post registration opportunities made available to students across CFHS, which may include supervision of student practice placements Assess practice competencies of junior staff members, contributing to their training and development needs Participate in meetings as appropriate Be prepared to be flexible within contracted hours Work in accordance with the needs of the service, undertake other duties as required within current skill set