Health Visitor Team Lead - Rochdale, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Rochdale, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job overview:

This is an exciting opportunity for a 12 month fixed term contract as a team lead within HMR health visiting service.

The Team Leader will be responsible for the day-to-day management and co-ordination of a team of Health Visitors and skill mix staff, within a defined neighbourhood.

They will lead a team delivering safe, effective, evidence based high quality care, in a variety of community settings, in partnership with parents/carers, GPs and other education, voluntary, health and social care partners.

Main duties of the job:

The Team Leader will support the Service Manager to ensure Health Visiting Services within their defined neighbourhood meet key organisational targets and deliver local and national priorities.

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

The team lead will communicate sensitive and key strategic messages acting as a conduit for information between senior managers, other children's teams, and front-line staff.

They will work with the Senior Managers to provide clinical leadership for services, supporting role re-design and service transformation, co-operating with all staff to facilitate good working relationships and Initiate and maintain good working relationships and communication networks with all statutory and voluntary organisations, clients, carers, and staff.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to
make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -
care,
appreciate and
inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.

The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction.

By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
Analytical and Judgmental Skills

Accept referrals for Health Visiting/School Nursing Services within the agreed criteria and redirect any inappropriate referrals to relevant agencies.
Assist the Service Managers in developing Health Visiting/School Nursing and associated services to meet Trust and national targets.
Confidentiality is of prime importance. In the normal course of duties, the post holder will have access to confidential documents and information relating to patients, service users, staff and contractors, as well as information of a commercially sensitive nature. Such information should not be communicated to anyone outside or inside the NHS unless done in the normal course of carrying out the duties of the post. Disciplinary action will be considered where a breach of confidence has been established.
The post holder must maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date. The post holder must only access information, whether paper, electronic or in other media, which is authorised to them as part of their duties.
The post holder must ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Planning and Organisational Skills

Demonstrate leadership skills to motivate and develop members of the Health Visiting / School Nursing teams

Work flexibly to provide cover for absent colleagues when required.
Ensure that the staff off duty is coordinated to maintain adequate staffing levels for effective delivery of the service.

Physical skills

Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
Ability to use a computer and keyboard with speed and accuracy.

Responsibility for Patient Care

Lead the team in delivering the Healthy Child Programme. Developing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining a highquality service which meets the requirements of the Health Visiting / School Nursing Service specifications.
Monitor the quality of interventions, advice, followup care provided and develop tools to improve the quality of the service to achieve agreed