Hub lead health visiting

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

• Communicate complex information concisely to teams
• Communicate sensitive patient/organisational/staff information to other healthcare professionals
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information in a variety of formats overcoming barriers to understanding using discretion and tact

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• Registered RGN or Midwife
• Registered health visitor
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Non-medical prescriber
• Broad base of clinical experience
• Experience of clinical audit/ quality improvement initiatives
• Knowledge of new interventions and developments
• To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.
• Working knowledge of principles of clinical governance and their application
• To maintain professional standards by attending appropriate training and development opportunities to maintain up to date NMC registration
• Experience of inter professional working
• Experience in clinical audit/quality improvement initiatives
• Relevant management experience
• To keep up to date with new practice, techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good clinical practice
• Attendance and development of a working knowledge of all organisational statutory and mandatory training
• Experience of interpreting and drawing on national and international guidelines/drivers for health visiting and current associated research to lead and promote changes in clinical practice across the service.
• To develop a working knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and their application to professional practice
• To be a reflective practitioner who is responsible for own continuous development and maintenance of CPD portfolio for revalidation
• To have good time management skills; an ability to work in a team being reliable and having a flexible approach

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• To manage clinical and non-clinical risk within own role/ and for the team according to team and the organisations protocols.
• To understand the balance of professional development needs with the service needs
• As a nurse prescriber take responsibility for prescribing in line with the nurse prescribing formulary, Medway Community Healthcare and national policies/ guidelines
• Analyse audit findings and prepare detailed recommendations and action plans.

1. Planning and organisational skills

• To contribute to the development of the team and service provision
• To comply with organisational, departmental and the organisations policies and procedures
• To collect and submit all data and statistics as required in a timely and accurate manner
• To be aware of health and safety aspects of own/teams work and implement any policies which may be required to improve the safety of own work area, including prompt recording reporting and investigating of incidents or concerns
• To independently plan and prioritise own workload, including delegating and organising the work of the team
• To ensure team and line managers are aware of workload/whereabouts through use of electronic shared diaries
• To ensure the team meets the required levels of compliance for statutory and mandatory training and appraisals, supported by the wider leadership team/clinical leads
• To co-ordinate annual leave, study leave and duty rotas
• To plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care.

1. Physical skills

• keyboard skills are required
• Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g scales, height/length measuring tools.
• Ability to access diverse sites in a timely manner to undertake home visits, meetings etc

1. Responsibility for client care

• Working as a senior member of the team to holistically assess, implement, evaluate and provide specialist health visiting including appropriate follow up, for clients in the community with sometimes complex needs ensuring person centred, evidence based care

• To provide the clinical and managerial lead on a day to day basis for the team providing a high standard of care to clients whilst maintaining a safe environment

• Safeguard the client group by adhering to child/adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in adult / child protection proceedings when appropriate
• To work as a non- medical prescriber, diagnosing and prescribing treatment for a range of childhood conditions and minor ailments on completion of appropriate training
• To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work e.g. NMC registration
• To liaise with other services to provide a seamless client experience and quality outcome
• Actively promote equality and value diversity

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• Maintain a professional manner and act as a role model, adhering to the NMC code of professional conduct and organisational policies and protocols. Comment on policies and procedures
• Actively participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities including risk assessments, complaint investigation
• Participate in data collection, activity reporting and outcome measuring for the service
• Identify and progress practice development to improve client care standards and outcomes
• Actively progress integrated/interprofessional client care
• Contribute to the achievement of organisation and service objectives.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Authorised signatory for teams expenses, study leave, timesheets and mileage.
• Responsible for the monitoring and safe use of expensive equipment e.g. scales, iNurses.

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Line manage the team (including other line management responsibility is applicable as agreed by the Head of Service), including recruitment, appraisals, clinical supervision, training and education, probation, induction and rotas, sickness/absence monitoring and disciplinary and capability processes with the support of senior management
• Management responsibility for ensuring continuing quality of client care by evidence based practice
• Provide managerial cover for other Team Leads in their absence
• Participate in own appraisal and clinical supervision as supervisee
• Support new members of the team and students

1. Responsibilities for information resources

• Ensure records are kept up to date and safeguard client confidentiality by being aware of professional, legal and ethical responsibilities.
• Record and submit accurate, timely data and information to inform caseload management and service development.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• experienced Health visitor
• Leadership and management skills

Desirable

• able to work with MDT
• Good computer skills and record keeping

MCH Values

Essential

• demonstrates MCH values

Experiece

Essential

• good interpersonal skills
• good communication skills

Desirable

• analytical and judgement skills
• Able to demonstrate community leadership

Qualifications

Essential

• health visiting
• management experience

Desirable

• Community experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Snapdragons Centre

Cliffe Road

Strood Rochester

ME2 4FF

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)