School Nurse Team Leader

1 month ago

Lydney, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the leadership team of our innovative and progressive School Nursing Service.

Are you a dynamic Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) seeking a new challenge? Do you have the passion to be a leader and to inspire colleagues in the specialist field of public health nursing; working with children and young people to improve their health? Do you have a special interest in children with special educational needs and disabilities? If any of these questions excite you, get in touch

We work in collaboration with children and young people developing services that they want.

We provide mobile working with laptops and electronic records, enabling place based and digital first interventions.

We have developed social media platforms and use ChatHealth in response to requests of young people and families.

As an ACEs aware county we work in partnership with children, young people and families ensuring a trauma informed approach and shared decision making through restorative practice.

We work in skill-mixed teams ensuring the right person is offering the care/interventions that are needed.

We provide a robust leadership structure ensuring all colleagues are supported with the SCPHN taking the lead in triage and allocation of workload.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Operational and Professional Head of School Nursing and the senior management team to:

Deliver operationally efficient and effective services Co-ordination of the team to ensure continuity and the most effective use of resources Collaborate with colleagues using a Quality Improvement approach to identify and implement change to drive quality and effective delivery of care Provide strong professional leadership Adopt corporate and clinical governance and best practice principles in service delivery Ensure effective performance management using audit and evaluation tools, monitoring, reporting mechanisms and other systems ensure high quality service to meet the needs of the local population with knowledge and understanding of community assets available to them Take the lead on service innovation and development to meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities Lead on quality improvements to ensure the school nursing service is agile and able to adapt to the needs of families of children with special educational needs and disabilities. The post holder will have responsibility for line management of the SEND Health Advisory Service.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views ( It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

o believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;o would recommend the organisation as a place to work;o agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;o would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

SCPHN(SN) qualification is essential Leadership and Management qualification

Experience

Essential

Considerable experience of leading and implementing service development initiatives, utilising change management and project management frameworks and tools Experience of meeting the competing demands of a caseload of children with complex health needs and the operational governance demands of a skill mixed team. Previous experience of challenging others practice or service provision, within and outside the organisation and escalating concerns as appropriate.

Desirable

Experience of working with children with special educational needs and disabilities Experience of assessing health needs for children who are applying for an EHCP

Knowledge

Essential

Extensive knowledge and understanding of public health nursing particularly in relation to school aged children Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the health needs of communities and wider determinants of health that impact equality

Desirable

considerable knowledge of the complex health needs associated with special educational needs and disabilities.

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