School Nursing Lead Barnet 0-19 Service
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £56,388.00 to £62,785.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56388.00 - £62785.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N3 1HF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9220-24-0421 |
Summary
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 Childrens 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, childrens 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