Job summary
- Main area
- Band 7
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 199-6349758-SS-Y-A
- Employer
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 pr rata per annum incl outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
School Nurse Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow.
Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.
Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud. #choosecroydon
Job overview
To lead and manage a School Nursing team or teams within the locality planning area and ensure the delivery of safe, effective school health service. To be responsible for the day to day management of a defined group of staff and for delivery of the school nursing service providing expert information, assessments and interventions for children, young people and families with complex needs.
To lead and monitor the quality and performance and capacity of the identified team and work with School Nurse (SN) operational lead to identify and address risks, escalating as required.
To facilitate and develop locality working groups within best practice standards.
To facilitate School Nursing population profiling to inform locality developments if requested.
To actively work with colleagues to develop a cohesive, integrated locality team.
Main duties of the job
To support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
To support and assist child development workers as required.
To participate in the development of skill mix within the School Nursing Service to participate in the health education programmes and health promotion activities on a multidisciplinary basis as agreed with the team.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only emergency department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital ( PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.
We are a very close knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The School Nurse locality team leader post, is based in one of the four localities in the school nursing delivering the Healthy Child Programme to Children and Families in the London Borough of Croydon. Although you will be working within a primary school nursing locality, this role requires you to be able to work in other sites within and across the Trust. You will need to be able to travel within, and able to arrive for the start of the working day within these sites. This requirement will be driven by the needs of the service.
- To provide leadership to the service at locally and at national level.
- To enthuse others with a vision that they would aspire to develop.
- To inspire staff to provide a high quality service.
- To make appropriate decisions within specific timescales to meet service delivery requirements. This includes performance management of staff within all human resources policies and processes.
- To facilitate innovation, value creativity and develop the optimum potential of all staff within the teams, in line with developments of the integrated service and other partners.
- To work with multi-disciplinary teams across professional and organisational boundaries in children's centres, special schools and extended schools.
- To be reflective in developing strategies to function effectively within complex situations.
- To develop new service delivery, including new out of hours services.
- To have 40% clinical role, and 60% leadership role
Person specification
Interview Critieria
Essential criteria
- To be a registered Nurse
- To have a Specialist Public Health School Nurse Qualification
- To have significant line management experience within a skill mix team
- To have recent experience of working within a diverse community setting
- To have an extensive understating of the Healthy Child Programme and School Nursing Service Delivery Model
- To have significant knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures
- To have evidence of continuing professional development
- To have an understanding and application of the NMC code of Conduct scope of professional practice
- Ability to work independently and to demonstrate an ability to make decisions
- To have a valid UK driving licence and be a car driver
- To be able to travel across Croydon and surrounding boroughs
- To be able to apply equality of opporutnity to all staff
Desirable criteria
- Management or teaching qualification
- Educated to masters level or be willing to work towards this
Desirable Critieria
Desirable criteria
- Management or teaching qualification
- Educated to masters level or be willing to work towards this
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly James
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07442843371
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