Bright Start Islington Health Visitor Team Leader

3 months ago

Islington, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

Band 7

**Contract Type**: Permanent - Full Time

An exciting opportunity for Team Leader. If you are an experienced Health Visitor we would really like to hear from you.

Would you like to manage a Health Visiting Team working in integrated way with Early Years partners?

Bright Start Islington is our integrated service for under 5's and their families. We work together towards improving outcomes for all children and families.

We work in co located sites which are in Health Centres and Children's Centres. We also work in nurseries and community centres across Islington.

We work in small teams which enables us to know the families well which our health visiting teams are very proud of. We offer a wide range of ‘in-house’ and other training opportunities for professional development through our learning and development department as well as clinical supervision and management courses to support your leadership skills.

You will gain experience working with Child Protection and will have regular supervision of these cases. You will need to be proactive, able to identify and respond to health needs and react to unpredictable events.

The Team Lead in Health Visiting is responsible for the leadership and operational management of a skill mix health visiting team working as part of the integrated service branded Islington Bright Start.

Reporting to the Bright Start Locality Manager, they will support the development of an early childhood integrated service and work with the Clinical Lead, health partners and Bright Start Early Years colleagues to deliver the healthy child program.

The Team Leader will manage and delegate work to a defined team, to plan and deliver public health care identified within the core healthy child programme and local service specification. The Team leader will provide line management, child protection supervision, audit, advice and support for the staff within the teams they are responsible for and will be responsible for a caseload, recognising the need to balance the clinical and operational aspects of the role through fair allocation processes.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Management and Leadership

1. To work with the Bright Start Locality management team to understand service objectives and set team objectives accordingly.
2. To promote good team work through the use of excellent communication skills, in order that team objectives set are understood and achieved by all staff members.
3. To lead and promote integrated working across all Bright Start services, sharing in the facilitation of identified integrated meetings such as the staff integrated locality meetings and members ECAPs.
4. To be engaged with the Trust data reporting systems in use, accessing Qlikview, pulling regular reports and using the data to support team objectives being set.
5. To be competent in the use of the Trust electronic clinical record system following Trust guidelines in its use (RIO).
6. To directly manage members of the team in line with Trust policy providing regular supervision, annual appraisal and any identified additional support or training as required.
7. To ensure all new team members are provided with the local service and Trust induction guidelines and newly qualified staff have access to preceptorship modules.
8. To lead and support staff in any change management process involving staff at all levels.
9. To act as a practice supervisor and ensure an active learning environment for all staff grades.
10. To support the development of integration with Early Years services by leading on identified topics/issues in task and finish groups/integrated meetings and strategy groups.
11. To investigate complaints within agreed Trust policy, procedures and time scales and effect any necessary changes to practice and service that may result.
12. To investigate incidents reported on datix system and ensure learning shared with team and wider integrated service.
13. To support the Locality Managers with recruitment and retention of staff at all levels.
14. To support the Locality Managers in the development of new roles within the team including that of the nursing associate.
15. To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems w

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