Job vacancy: School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service, Whittington Health NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: School Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 220-WHT-2153

Employer: Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Winston House
Town: London
Salary: £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAs
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/05/2024 23:59

School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Covid-19 Vaccination

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3^rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Detailed job description and main 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 Children’s 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, children’s 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 criteria

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

Skills

Essential criteria

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 criteria

Evidence of persuasion/ negotiation skills

Experience

Essential criteria

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 criteria

Experience of change management
Experience delivering patient-centred care models

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:

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

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jane Grant
Job title: Interim Service Operational Lead
Email address: [email protected]

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School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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