Team Leader for Children's Community Services

Job Introduction
We have a fantastic opportunity as a Team Leader within our 0-19 Children's Community services. This is a permanent full-time position with the flexibility to work remotely from home, with travel into the service only required for service demands and monthly meetings.

You will be the direct line manager for 15 Health Visitors and oversee the healthy family practitioners. This role offers you the chance to be creative and innovative and manage the team in a way that you feel best, which includes tracking the performance and KPI’s of the team.

Working within Lancs 0-19 offers a **unique environment**, with clear visibility of senior management who are easily approachable due to their hands-on approach, which includes our Managing Director. You will feel listened to and be given the platforms to have your voice and ideas heard.

Main Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- To take responsibility for the recruitment and selection of staff within the team.
- To lead and update the locality Service Manager in ensuring that the workforce within the team is reviewed on a regular basis and ensure that skill mix adapts to meet the changing needs of the service and teams.
- To ensure adequate service provision by managing annual leave, absence, and vacant posts.
- To ensure that service users views are actively sought and fed into service developments

To be successful in this role, you will be a qualified Health Visitor or SCPHN School Nurse, have strong organisational skills and enjoy managing a team.

In additional, you will thrive when working under pressure and have the ability to think outside of the box. As this is a community role a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes is essential.

Successful applicants will be asked to take part in a face-to-face interview on **Tuesday 13th December.**

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As a Team Leader within our Fylde and Wyre service, you’ll be part of our valued team, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free and plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission