Professional Lead

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced enthusiastic and motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse to join our Children, Young People and Families Public Health Service in a Professional Lead role.

Our Professional Leads are responsible for leading and developing the Healthy Child Programme workforce across Southend, ensuring that services are safe, effective, evidenced based and of a high quality.

The Professional lead provides an outstanding role model for the delivery of client centred care. The post holder demonstrates the importance of performance, professionalism and accountability in caring for self and others and is seen as a champion for children and young people.

The professional lead works closely with our Public Health Team Leaders for health visiting and school nursing to identify areas of development for the services and operate as a visible and accessible operational lead.

We offer:

A comprehensive induction

Staff support viamanagement, safeguarding and restorative supervision.

A flexible working pattern.

Continuation of NHSpensions, and reimbursement of NMC fees.

All SCPHN posts recruitedto are currently eligible for a recruitment and retention bonus of £3000 pro rata.

A Local Authority payaward each year.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the operational management and leadership of the Children's Public Health workforce, ensuring that services are continually developing in order to demonstrate responsiveness to local changing needs and demands.

The Professional lead is responsible for ensuring that the Children's Public Health services meet key organisational and mandated targets for the delivery of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme.

The Professional Lead will ensure that the service has a clear focus on the protection of children and young people and will advance the public health priorities for children, young people and families across Southend.

The post holder will work in collaboration with key partners, including A Better Start Southend, Education, Children's Social Care, Early Help, Family Centres, Voluntary Services, Maternity Services and Early Years, to support the continued development of integrated locality-based services to support children and families.

The key responsibilities' and the specific knowledge, skills and experience required is detailed in the Job Description & Person Specification in the Supporting Documents

About us

InSouthend our health visiting, and school nursing team operates within anintegrated 0-19 Children's Public Health service model which incorporates a skillmix team approach to support aspects of service delivery.

Ourhealth visitors and school nurses are valued leaders of the Children's Public Health agenda. We work in close collaboration with ChildrenCentres, Early Years Providers, Education, A Better Start Southend, and other partner agencies to improve population outcomes and reducehealth inequalities for children and young people and their families who live in our city.

Southend is a diverse and busy University city with an attractive seafront, public parks and leisure activities. The city has excellent transport links and is accessible from both Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street stations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

FULL JD AND JOB SPECIFICATION- SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT.

Professional Responsibilities:

The Professional Lead will be responsible for leading anddeveloping the Healthy Child Programme workforce across Southend ensuring thatservices are safe, effective, evidenced based and of a high quality.

They will act as an outstanding role model fordelivering client centred care, emphasising the importance of performance,professionalism, appearance, and accountability in caring for self and others.

The post holder will be responsible for leading thecontribution and engagement of Childrens Public Health Services in thedevelopment of an Integrated Childrens Workforce in partnership with A BetterStart Southend, Social Services, maternity Services, Early Years and Early Helpand third sector organisations within Southend.

The Professional Lead will be responsible for managing andensuring of Childrens 0-19 Public Health Services meet key organisationaltargets and deliver against local, including the Southend 2050 Ambition, localNHS priorities (MSEs HCP 5-yr Strategy) and National priorities.

They will be responsible for ensuring that Childrens PublicHealth Services are continuallydeveloping and evaluating services to ensure that they are responsive to anychanging needs and demands.

Have first line operational management responsibility forthe:

Public Health Team Leaders Specialist School Nurse Specialist Teams (within Health Visiting and School Nursing) Education Lead 0-19

Be accountable and responsiblefor the professional leadership of the workforce ensuring there are robustcommunications pathways in place and that staff are aware of relevantprofessional issues.

Work alongside the team leadersto ensure that all nursing staff maintain clinical competence and professionalregistration and work within professional codes of conduct and local policiesand procedures.

Oversight of the NMC professionalregister to ensure that all nurse registrants are compliant to NMC registrationrequirements.

Maintain operational oversight of childexploitation pathways and partnership risk management meetings.

Provide the operational leadership for the service SEND offer to ensure universal services arecompliant with responsibilities in regard to the Special Educational Needs andDisability Code of Practice (2015).

To ensure effective transfer and communicationpathways in place with Maternity Providers across the Mid and South Essex HealthCare Partnership.

Contribute to the evaluation processes for jointlydelivered services within the A Better Start Partnership.

Have overallresponsibility for key priority areas including NCMP, healthy weight pathways,emotional wellbeing support offer for children and young people , SEND, children whoare Electively Home -Educated, and reducing health inequalities for children workstreams.

Have overallresponsibility and oversight for key priority areas including breastfeeding andinfant nutrition, transition to parenthood, integrated 2-year review,immunisation, teenage pregnancy pathway, and improving health inequality.

Work inpartnership with local partners on delivering high impact pathways as integralcomponent of the school nursing pathway.

Develop strong governance frameworks with responsibility for developingand implementing standards, policies, protocols, and operating proceduresensuring all services are safe evidencing compliance through an annual auditplan.

Service Planning and Performance:

Inconjunction with the Senior Public Health Lead, develop service plans to meetagreed strategic direction and deliver the wider corporate objectives.

Ensure that the service can demonstrate it is compliant withCQC standards of practice through robust maintenance of Key Lines of enquiryevidence portfolio.

Work withthe Operational Performance & Intelligence Team tocompile monthly service reports and review caseload analysis to ensure thatservice delivery is responsive to population needs, demographic trends and safestaffing.

Ensureresources are utilised effectively, through appropriate skill mix, staffeducation and development and workforce planning.

Training and Education:

Contributeto the development of staff to ensure that the service provided reflects bestpractice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to meet changinghealth needs of local population, Local Authority and NHS.

To encourageand assess professional development through action learning, reflectivepractice, professional supervision, self-appraisal, and performance review.

To ensurecompliance with clinical supervision, management supervision and safeguardingsupervision in line with KPIs and ensure the timely reporting to Safeguarding ClinicalNetwork (ICS) and the Southend Safeguarding Childrens Partnership Subgroups.

To act as a specialist resource promoting and upskilling the 0-19Childrens Public Health Service and other agencies regarding a Better Start inLife.

Oversight of the education andtraining framework for pre and post registration students. Liaising with the local Higher EducationEstablishment to ensure effective joined up recruitment processes are in placeand that the service is compliant with NMC standards for Education.

Lead service participation inmulti-agency training when required.

To review and develop ongoingtraining requirements for professional development of the service.

Identify personal training needsand development through the process of appraisal and management supervision.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Significant and relevant experience in operational management of community children's services . Experienced in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme. Proven experience of working within a specialist or senior health visiting role with relevant skills, knowledge and understanding of public health principles and practices. Experience of performance management of individuals. Experience of evaluating and developing teams to achieve improvement in service delivery. Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of clinical and corporate governance systems. Evidence of using and implementing evidenced based practice in a specialist community children's services area. Evidence of managing financial resources.

Desirable

Use of SystmOne Experience of leading workforce re-design and project management

Qualifications

Essential

Registered General Nurse /Registered Sick Children's Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse Registered SCPHN Post Graduate qualification/education

Additional

Essential

Current Full UK Driving Licence and car A committed, enthusiastic person who can demonstrate good team working and autonomy Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills Skilled in managing and prioritising own caseload and workload Flexibility in working hours and environment Time management skills Excellent IT skills

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Knowledge of 0-19 Children's Health agendas and priorities. Detailed knowledge of the legislative framework for Public Health Nursing Services. A good working knowledge of current inspection and assessment framework. Understanding of the challenges facing the children's public health nursing workforce. Knowledge on performance management and service delivery prioritisation. Working knowledge and understanding of the delivery of the Healthy Child programme. Knowledge of safeguarding processes, including familiarity with MARAC/MASH principals

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