Job summary
- Main area
- 0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (August 2025)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 301-SB-24-6390392
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Bridge
- Town
- Stafford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/07/2024
Employer heading
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*INTERNAL MPFT APPLICANTS ONLY* Team Leader SAIS
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
INTERNAL - MPFT STAFF ONLY
12-month Secondment Fixed Term Band 7
Team Leader for School Aged Immunisation Service Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent (SAIS)
The SAIS is a Trust-wide service that provides vaccinations to the school-aged population in Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent. The service operates year-round, with the majority of vaccinations being administered in schools during term time. Including HPV, DTP, Men ACWY from January to August, followed by Flu vaccinations from September to January.
We are excited to offer this secondment opportunity, we are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 7 Operational Team Leader eager to share and enhance their skills.
Responsibilities include:
- Day-to-day operational management and service delivery within the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ensuring performance meets designated trust standards, including clinical, key performance indicators, and financial management targets.
- Managing staff within the team, providing leadership, management supervision, and ensuring appropriate clinical/professional supervision.
This is an outstanding career development opportunity. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the Band 7 Programme & Quality Lead to ensure the effective delivery of the immunisation program.
The base for this post is Rising Brook Surgery, Stafford, ST17 9LY however there will be a need for regular travel Trust wide.
Main duties of the job
-Ensure the safe delivery of The National Childhood/ Adolescent Immunisation Program within Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent.
- Managing staff within the team, providing leadership, management supervision, and ensuring appropriate clinical/professional supervision.
-Ensuring performance meets designated trust standards, including clinical, key performance indicators, and financial management targets.
- Day-to-day operational management and service delivery within the multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensure adherence to the following workforce training requirements: Regularly supervise and appraise all staff within the team to identify training needs that align with the Workforce Development plan. Ensure team members comply with Statutory and Mandatory training. Ensure team members attend scheduled training and address any unauthorized absences. Conduct regular team meetings to consult with staff and inform them of changes that affect their work practices. Ensure new team members are properly integrated into the team and complete corporate induction alongside any local induction. Guarantee a one-to-one meeting with new members within one month and again at three months after starting. Act as the first point of contact for patient or service user complaints and inquiries, conducting investigations when necessary. Use appropriate communication methods with tact and diplomacy, involving external agencies when language barriers arise. Engage with the community to discuss the quality and effectiveness of health and social care services, taking decisive action to address and improve any identified shortcomings, whether individual, systemic, or procedural, within the team. Exhibit people management skills that demonstrate compassionate and appreciative leadership. Stand in for the Service Manager when required, and provide support to the Programme & Quality Lead as needed. ESSENTIAL CRITERIA: Degree level professional qualification health registration with NMC Please refer to person specification for more detail. |
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- SCPHN ( Health Visiting or School Nursing)
Desirable criteria
- completed Transfer of Fields course
experience
Essential criteria
- experience within a 0-19 Service/Health Visiting/School Nursing Service
Knowledge of the Childhood Immunisation program
Essential criteria
- knowledge demonstrated
Desirable criteria
- knowledge of immunisation program
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
- Debbie Hallwood
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07452 949494
- Additional information
available Mon - Fri 09:00-17:00
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