School Health Team Lead

The borough has three main bases for School Nursing that are aligned to Family Hubs and health centres and the teams are working towards a more integrated service offer.

H&F form part of the Inner Northwest London (INW) division and part of a Clinical Service Unit (CSU) that compromises of Hammersmith and Fulham Health visiting & School Nursing 0-19, Westminster Health Visiting, Kensington and Chelsea Health Visiting and an integrated 0-19 SPA.

There are three teams in the borough that are split geographically, North South and Central which will be managed by the School Health team lead.

The borough has an experienced clinical lead who oversees Health Visiting and School Nursing and specialist health visitors covering perinatal mental health, SEND, MESCH and infant feeding. Each team has an experienced team lead each, qualified health visitors, community staff Nurses, nursery Nurses, dedicated practice development Nurse and are aligned to early help staff. This skill mix works passionately to deliver integrated and progressive services and continue to seek and develop innovative ways of working.

Children, young people, and families are our focus and passion and we're seeking A School Health team lead to join our dynamic diverse teams. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our families get the best care closer to home and supporting families to keep them well.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical and professional leadership and manage 5-19 public health nursing (school nursing) teams, ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive and high quality needs led service.
• To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative public health service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the team to ensure delivery of a high quality service
• To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based public health service to the school aged population in a variety of school or community settings.
• To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.
• To develop leadership and management skills in others; supporting teams to be involved in planning, implementing and evaluating service

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme T&C's apply
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

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Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse / or Differing in Practice in school nursing
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
• Practice Assessor training
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g. Epilepsy, allergies
• Another related qualification e.g. Teaching

Experience

• Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
• Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and inter-agency working. Ability to facilitate joint working practices
• Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning and implementing evidence based programmes of care
• Experience of developing the public health agenda
• Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
• Experience of innovative practice or project management.
• Experience of line managing team members
• Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision.
• Experience of developing clinical standards and protocols.

Skills

• Knowledge of recent developments in public health nursing and health and social care legislation.
• Current knowledge of safeguarding children guidelines and relevant legal aspects
• Knowledge of the public health agenda and the health care needs of individuals in the community
• Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills/medical conditions
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal and interpersonal skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£51,488 to £57,802 a yearper annum, inclusive of HCAS