School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

This role is responsible for leading and managing the school nursing service in the London borough of Barnet to deliver a modern, inclusive, evidence-based, proactive, and responsive school nursing service in line with national, local, and trust policies. The post holder will ensure that high quality supervision and appraisal underpins staff development and performance across Barnet School Nursing. The post holder’s key role will be to ensure that school nursing services are of high quality, providing evidence-based interventions to promote health and wellbeing.

Leadership and staff development

Management of the school nursing service and staff teams

Ensuring good clinical governance, in line with Trust and national policies

Overseeing and responsible for clinical service delivery

Responsible for professional development of the service's team leads.

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.

LEADERSHIP & STAFF DEVELOPMENT

To manage and coordinate the school nursing team leaders and professional development lead in leading and motivating staff to achieve high performance and best practice in all areas

To ensure that team and staff objectives reflect Whittington Health objectives, the strategic vision, ICARE values and national strategy (e.g. The Healthy Child Programme 5-19 years old)

To facilitate, lead, support and coordinate the development of staff within the leadership team ensuring that an ethos of shared responsibility and joint working prevails

To ensure clear communication systems, verbal, written and electronic are in place for all members of the team, to ensure that communication is clear and effective at all levels

To lead and facilitate the team in the use of IT systems within their settings to adapt to new ways of working e.g. agile and mobile working practices

To use clinical and management supervision and collection of statistical information to monitor and review service outcomes, demand, activity, caseloads, KPIs and other service data.

To provide direct supervision and appraisal to the School Nursing team leads and ensure they have robust supervision and appraisal arrangements in place for the staff reporting to them. To use this supervision structure to identify areas of good practice or concern, and to support staff to prioritise and manage their caseloads effectively

To provide advice and support to school nurses in the management of complex cases, including undertaking joint assessment visits where appropriate. To analyse service activity on a regular basis and identify trends and actions that may be required to improve service delivery

To work with the Safeguarding Children’s team to ensure that staff within your service are clinically skilled and appropriately supported to manage Safeguarding issues. To be involved in the Early Help Panel and other development

To support the School Nursing team in providing training to a range of professionals on issues relevant to maintaining and improving health within the population

To ensure effective arrangements are in place with your team leads for the specialist community public health nurse (SCPHN) and pre-registration students within the School Nursing service ensuring requirements for clinical placements are met

To lead the School Nursing team on change management demonstrating good analytical, solution focussed and problem-solving skills

To work closely with Barnet Public Health and ensure that key performance indicators are met.

MANAGEMENT

To be an active member of the senior management team and deputise for colleagues.

To ensure job descriptions and vacancies within the team are reviewed on a regular basis and ensure that the skill mix adapts to meet the changing patterns of service delivery from the team, redeploying staff as necessary and informing line managers of any associated risks

To ensure all complaints are investigated within agreed Trust Policy and effect any necessary changes to practice and service that may result.

To promote effective multi agency and interagency development and team building.

To lead on recruitment to School Nursing vacancies, writing adverts and job descriptions that accurately reflect service needs and clinical skills required.

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