Team leader School Nursing

The 0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing Team is seeking a dynamic individual with a strong public health focus who is fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse population. You will be an experienced SCPHN with a real enthusiasm to manage the day-to-day, on-going delivery and development of the 0-19 years’ service and teams within your remit. You will provide a service that is responsive, high quality, value for money and meets our contractual obligations including service development.

You will support the 0-19 locality lead and Clinical Business Unit Manager in the management and leadership of the services within Merton. This will include leading your team in a multidisciplinary base co-located in a local Children’s Centre and working in partnership with other key stakeholders including GP’s. You will be a highly motivated individual who confidently develops 0-19 teams supporting the management of change.

You will work with clinical, pathway and professional leads to develop and re-design care pathways with other partners, implementing best practice and ensuring the maximum utilization of resources to benefit our patients.

The successful post holder will be supported in developing skills and knowledge through the Performance Appraisal and Development Review process in delivering both the Public Health Model and the School Health Service.

You must have SCPHN (BSc course) qualification and RGN Registered Nurse (Adult or Paediatric)

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
1. To act as a clinical resource and provide clinical management and professional leadership for the 5-19 team, which supports and facilitates the development of the public health service
2. To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based service to clients in a variety of community settings to include, school, home, GP, children’s Centre and community
3. Any clinical responsibilities provided must be delivered within the professional area of expertise e. school nursing
4. To have an overview of the profiled health needs for the local community ensuring that the 0-19 service meets the needs of the local population, that resources are utilized effectively and any service gaps identified and
5. To support the identification, prioritisation and implementation of health assessments, programmes of care, to ensure the delivery of the healthy child programme
6. To work with the team with the planning, organising and coordinating of health clinics or health promotion groups as appropriate to the local population
7. To have an overview of the children known to be at risk and / or in need within the To liaise with the safeguarding team as necessary and GP’s to share information as appropriate according to the CLCH policies
8. To ensure that team members are attending safeguarding To actively promote an approach of professional curiosity within the team and awareness of contextual safeguarding
9. To work in partnership with other health professionals and agencies to safeguard children and young To ensure staff prepare for, attend and participate in all relevant case conferences and inter-agency meetings relating to children at risk and / or in need adhering to CLCH and LSCP policies
10. To work in a collaborative manner with health, education and social care service providers and other agencies to ensure seamless delivery of services
11. To ensure that any team members who undertake non-medical prescribing are delivering this activity in line with required professional and CLCH NHS Trust standards
12. To have an innovative approach to practice in response to changing service needs and Acting as a change agent and facilitating the change process
13. To support the development of evidenced based 0-19 standards and care pathways in relation to clinical practice which adhere to NICE

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilties.