Public Health Team Lead

1 month ago

SouthendonSea, United Kingdom Southend On Sea City Council Full time

Job summary

Are you a health visitor with a minimum of 3 years experience ready for a new challenge as a Public Health Team Lead? Southend City Council Children, Young People and Families Public Health (CYP&FPH) Service would love for you to come and work in our vibrant community, supporting children under 5 and their families.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivatedpractitioner with initiative and drive. Our 0-19 service delivers high qualitypublic health nursing, that promotes and improves health to children,young people and their families in Southend-On-Sea. You will need to haveexcellent communication and organisational skills, be willing to facilitate andsupport change in service delivery, have the ability to work autonomously andas part of an integrated skill mix team.

***Interview date: Wednesday 4th September ***

***This post is eligible for our generous recruitment and retention bonus of £3000 pro rata subject to T&C's***

Weoffer the choice to keep your NHS pension, or join the local government pension scheme. As a Public Health Team Lead Health visitor working for Southend City Council you will have access to iHV corporate membership, you will be able to claim NMC professional fees and the DBS update service fee and benefit from the Local Authority pay award each year.

Main duties of the job

The Health Visiting Team is looking for a strong, enthusiastic health visitor to lead a Team in the delivery of the Health Child programme and support the team in managing their safeguarding caseloads. As a Team Lead you will have your own caseload to manage alongside team management responsibilities. You will be required to lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme and promote the health of all children and young people, especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered the opportunity to achieve optimum development.

To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidence based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families and groups utilising best available evidence.

Work in accordance to the commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice.

About us

Southend-on-Sea City Council is a unitary Local Authorityand the 0-19 service is based within the Public Health department. Staffmoving from NHS to Local Authority can maintain their NHS pension.

The City is diverse, a busy University town with anattractive seafront, public parks and leisure activities, competitive housepricing and excellent transport links. Accessible from both Liverpool Streetand Fenchurch Street stations. It offers traditional seaside living that makesit a fantastic place to live and work.

Working at Southend City Council gives you not only the opportunity to make a difference in the City you love, but we also have a range of employee benefits, via our partners. There are 5 themes within our ambition:

1. Pride and Joy - Southenders are fiercely proud of, and go out of their way, to champion what our borough has to offer

2. Safe and Well - People in Southend feel safe in all aspects of their lives and are well enough to live fulfilling lives

3. Active and Involved - We have a thriving, active and involved community that feel invested in our city

4. Opportunity and Prosperity - Southend is a successful city and we share our prosperity amongst all of our people

5. Connected and Smart - People can easily get in, out and around our borough and we have a world class digital infrastructure

As a council, our staff are: Inclusive, Collaborative, Proud, and Honest.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To manage a designated Health Visiting Team. Completing the teams 1-2-1s and annual appraisals.

To manage the safeguarding dashboard with support from the Professional Leads, ensuring your teams figures are cleansed and workloads managed.

To manage your teams sickness, annual leave and proformance/capability with support form your Professional Lead and Human resources.

To Lead the weekly Work allocation meetings feeding down information to your team from the Public Health Team Leader meetings.

To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme andensure the 4, 5, 6, model is implemented in practice, ensuring services areprovided within the tiered model approach Building Community Capacity,Universal, Targeted and Specialist.

To promote the health of all children and young people,especially those from disadvantaged groups, to ensure they are offered theopportunity to achieve optimum development.

To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes ofcare to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidencebased assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range ofsupport packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable familiesand groups utilising best available evidence.

Work in accordance to the commissioned servicespecification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within requiredtimescales, services provided are evidence based practice.

To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes ofcare to meet individual and local needs. This will be achieved through evidencebased assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range ofsupport packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerablefamilies and groups utilising best available evidence .

To clinically interpret information, analyse and identifyappropriate individual plans of care in line with Universal, Targeted and Specialist cases within the Health Visiting caseload.

To appropriately delegate and supervise workloadwithin the skill mix team in line with service operating procedures and competencyframeworks.

To provide expert advice, support and interventions to allfamilies with children in the first years of life.

To identify the needs of individual children, parents andfamilies (including safeguarding needs) and refer or direct them to existinglocal services, thereby promoting early intervention.

To operate within Children & Young People Services ChildSafeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and takingappropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.

To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences,providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervisionas per policy for Safeguarding children.

Liaise and maintain good working relationships withstatutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting asnecessary.

Full job description is attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

First Level Nurse Registration or midwife registration Specialist Community Practitioner qualification in Health Visiting. Minimum of 3 years experience as a SCPHN health visitor Evidence of continuous professional development Mentorship course/CPT or equivalent Comprehensive knowledge community based health services including national policy

Desirable

Experience of managing a skills mix team

Experience

Essential

Experience of operational management of community clinical services with a track record of delivery. Evidence of modernising practice and services Evidence of using and implementing evidenced based practice relating to specialist area Experience of workforce re-design and project management Ability to translate strategic vision into practical implementation Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve effectively and quickly Ability to manage individuals and teams to achieve improvement in service delivery Able to challenge colleagues views and attitudes when necessary Able to communicate clearly and succinctly both verbally and written Ability to manage financial resources including delivery of KPIs Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of clinical and corporate governance systems. Able to demonstrate strengthened governance arrangements that have improved risk management and that clinical and corporate systems are in place and effective Computer literate Ability to work between sites Skills in managing own workload through effective prioritisation Able to demonstrate leadership qualities

Desirable

Experience of developing and managing groups. Computer literacy, knowledge of SystmOne.

Additional

Essential

Current Full UK Driving Licence and car A committed, enthusiastic person who can demonstrate good team working and autonomy Demonstrate good communication skills Skilled in managing and prioritising own caseload and workload Flexibility in working hours and environment Empathetic and non-judgmental Able to manage strong emotions, sensitive issues and undertake courageous conversations Confident and resilient Ability to inspire and motivate others

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