School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Description

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Location London Salary £56,388 to £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAs Closing date 13 May 2024

This role is responsible for leading and managing the school nursing service in the London borough of Barnet to deliver a modern, inclusive, evidence-based, proactive, and responsive school nursing service in line with national, local, and trust policies. The post holder will ensure that high quality supervision and appraisal underpins staff development and performance across Barnet School Nursing. The post holder's key role will be to ensure that school nursing services are of high quality, providing evidence-based interventions to promote health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

• Leadership and staff development
• Management of the school nursing service and staff teams
• Ensuring good clinical governance, in line with Trust and national policies
• Overseeing and responsible for clinical service delivery
• Responsible for professional development of the service's team leads.

About us Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work. Job description Job responsibilities LEADERSHIP & STAFF DEVELOPMENT

• To manage and coordinate the school nursing team leaders and professional development lead in leading and motivating staff to achieve high performance and best practice in all areas
• To ensure that team and staff objectives reflect Whittington Health objectives, the strategic vision, ICARE values and national strategy (e.g. The Healthy Child Programme 5-19 years old)
• To facilitate, lead, support and coordinate the development of staff within the leadership team ensuring that an ethos of shared responsibility and joint working prevails
• To ensure clear communication systems, verbal, written and electronic are in place for all members of the team, to ensure that communication is clear and effective at all levels
• To lead and facilitate the team in the use of IT systems within their settings to adapt to new ways of working e.g. agile and mobile working practices
• To use clinical and management supervision and collection of statistical information to monitor and review service outcomes, demand, activity, caseloads, KPIs and other service data.
• To provide direct supervision and appraisal to the School Nursing team leads and ensure they have robust supervision and appraisal arrangements in place for the staff reporting to them. To use this supervision structure to identify areas of good practice or concern, and to support staff to prioritise and manage their caseloads effectively
• To provide advice and support to school nurses in the management of complex cases, including undertaking joint assessment visits where appropriate. To analyse service activity on a regular basis and identify trends and actions that may be required to improve service delivery
• To work with the Safeguarding Childrens team to ensure that staff within your service are clinically skilled and appropriately supported to manage Safeguarding issues. To be involved in the Early Help Panel and other development
• To support the School Nursing team in providing training to a range of professionals on issues relevant to maintaining and improving health within the population
• To ensure effective arrangements are in place with your team leads for the specialist community public health nurse (SCPHN) and pre-registration students within the School Nursing service ensuring requirements for clinical placements are met
• To lead the School Nursing team on change management demonstrating good analytical, solution focussed and problem-solving skills
• To work closely with Barnet Public Health and ensure that key performance indicators are met.

MANAGEMENT

• To be an active member of the senior management team and deputise for colleagues.
• To ensure job descriptions and vacancies within the team are reviewed on a regular basis and ensure that the skill mix adapts to meet the changing patterns of service delivery from the team, redeploying staff as necessary and informing line managers of any associated risks
• To ensure all complaints are investigated within agreed Trust Policy and effect any necessary changes to practice and service that may result.
• To promote effective multi agency and interagency development and team building.
• To lead on recruitment to School Nursing vacancies, writing adverts and job descriptions that accurately reflect service needs and clinical skills required.
• To be an authorised signatory to sign-off time sheets for agency and bank staff and additional hours sheets for permanent staff
• To be responsible for the management and monitoring of team budget
• To be responsible for the ordering and purchase of equipment, materials and resources ensuring that the patient environment is fit for purpose and the staff have access to resources necessary to deliver and provide an appropriate, efficient, and effective service
• To be responsible for the reporting and management of sickness and absence including coordinating annual leave within the team to take account of the needs of service users
• To lead on the development of partnerships and liaison with local GPs, childrens services, (social care), and other agencies.
• To support team leads to prioritise workload taking into account the needs of the service and vulnerable families.
• To ensure team maintain up to date, accurate records that complies with current data collation systems. To provide written reports as requested and complete statistical returns in accordance with policy requirement
• To attend regular mandatory safeguarding and managerial supervision
• To provide and record annual performance appraisal on staff and identify continuing professional development needs
• To manage sickness and absence in accordance with Whittington Health policy and arrange cover for this as needed
• To set up and review new projects relating to the School Nursing service from writing proposal, through recruitment to evaluation
• To be adaptable to change in service provision.

CLINICAL GOVERNANCE

• To ensure that the School Nursing Service is effective, efficient, and responsive and practice is evidence based or reflects national best practice
• To ensure that the service operating protocol is up to date and matches service provision

CLINICAL DELIVERY

• To be responsible for leading the School Nursing team to deliver a modern evidence-based Child Health Programme 5-19 years
• To act as a role model for staff within the team
• To undertake assessments of family health needs determining the level of support and intervention required. To provide interventions to families evaluating their impact
• To support staff in identifying high risk families, devising, and implementing a negotiated plan of intervention with the family and working in partnership with other professionals
• To lead the team to act as a referral and referring agent, attend early e.g. Early Help, healthy weight team
• To lead your service in school profiling and needs analysis
• To work within professional guidelines (NMC), policies and procedures of Whittington Health
• To represent Whittington Health school nursing at multi agency meetings and working groups e.g. collaborative working with social care, education
• To promote the ethos of joint working, making and valuing links with other services and actively advocating for clients and families.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• To give clinical/managerial supervision to School Nursing Team leads and ensure a cascade model is in place within the service
• To represent the service at professional meetings, forums, and conferences
• To participate in performance review including the agreement of objectives and personal development plan with line manager
• To participate in research projects, innovations

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Registered nurse
• Qualified SCPHN (School Nurse / Health Visitor)
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development

Skills Essential

• Highly developed written communication skills
• Evidence of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Evidence of providing motivational & professional leadership
• Skilled trainer, mentor, supervisor, or coach

Desirable

• Evidence of persuasion/ negotiation skills

Experience Essential

• Understanding of 5 -19 specific policies, initiatives, national frameworks
• Experience of child & adult safeguarding provisions
• Experience managing community-based services and staff
• Leadership in clinical governance and patient safety
• Experience of service re-design
• Experience of budget management
• Demonstrable knowledge of quality assurance & performance management

Desirable

• Experience of change management
• Experience delivering patient-centred care models

Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Address Winston House 2 Dollis Park London N3 1HF Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 220-WHT-2153

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