- Health Visiting professional qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Management experience in a health service setting.
- Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
- Willingness to lead and support management of change.
- High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to children.
- Ability to apply research to practice.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Ability to set personal and team objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
- Ability to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
- Knowledge of infection control standards.
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
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Band 7 - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust
Description
Job overview
Health Visitor Team Leader - Haringey
Band 7
Contract Type: Full Time (Permanent)
Job overview
Health Visitor Band 7 salary negotiable within £49,178 – £55, 492 including 15% HCA. Plus an additional 5% recruitment and retention. Please telephone for further information.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Team Leaders within Haringey Health Visiting. If you are an experienced Health Visitor we would really like to hear from you.
Would you like to manage a Health Visiting Team working in an integrated way with Early Years partners developing family hubs?
Have you heard about the transformation of our Health Visiting Service in Haringey?
Main duties of the job
We are looking for experience practitioners who want to work and lead a health visiting team in Haringey. We are looking for warm and engaging candidates with strong leadership skills and a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme, and Safeguarding policy and practice. We have an exciting development within our service and have implemented The Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting ( MECSH ) programme to the families in Haringey. We can offer you a friendly supportive team to manage, regular supervision and extensive evidence based training with skills practice to carry out your role.
Main duties of the job
The Team Lead in Health Visiting is responsible for the leadership and operational management of a skill mix health visiting team.
Reporting to the Locality Manager, they will support the development of an early childhood integrated service and work with their local family hub to deliver the healthy child program.
The Team Leader will manage and delegate work to a defined team, to plan and deliver public health care identified within the core healthy child programme and local service specification. The Team leader will provide line management , audit, advice and support for the staff within the teams they are responsible for and will be responsible for a caseload, recognising the need to balance the clinical and operational aspects of the role through fair allocation processes.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management and Leadership
1 . To lead change within the health visiting team. To promote good team work through the use of excellent communication skills, in order that team objectives are understood and achieved. To lead and promote integrated working across Universal Health Services.
2. To comply with the NMC Code of Conduct and the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers. To manage staff working in accordance within these codes of conduct, that requires the post holder to model the code in every aspect of their work and for their actions to demonstrate a commitment to the code.
3. To directly manage members of the team and associated resources and agree with them performance objectives to reflect both local and national strategies and priorities. To ensure all complaints are investigated within agreed Trust policy, procedures and time scales and effect any necessary changes to practice and service that may result.
4. To support the Locality Managers with recruitment, selection and performance management of staff and ensure that all members of the Health Visiting team have access to regular management and professional supervision, appraisal and staff development.
5. To ensure that all members of the Health Visiting team have access to regular management and professional supervision, appraisal and staff development.
6. To ensure that individuals within the teams are aware of and work within the Trust policies and procedures. To ensure the maintenance of up to date, accurate records that complies with local and national standards.
7. To develop and maintain effective and appropriate communication systems with staff and colleagues within the organisation, Children's Centres and GP Practices. Including the delivery of Service Level Agreements as appropriate.
8. To take every reasonable step to see that the working environment is safe, healthy and hazard free for staff and users, including ensuring that infection control procedures are in place.
9. To facilitate the use of information technology and ensure that relevant and up to date information on clinical developments and service activity are provided to agreed time-scales.
10. To promote a continuous learning environment for colleagues and students within the organisation. Ensure that all staff has access to information that enables them to practice safely and effectively.
11. To participate in audit, research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol.
12. To support the financial management of the HV budget.
Person specification
EDUCATION
Essential criteria
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITY
Essential criteria
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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