Team Supervisor Child Development Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ensure effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team

Ensure effective communication with clients where there may be barriers to acceptance/understanding, e.g. child protection, bereavement, domestic violence and where english is not the first language.

2. Knowledge, training and experience

1st level registered general nurse

Qualified community public health practitioner (part 11 NMC register)

Specialist knowledge of safeguarding of children and adults

Specialist knowledge of child development and family and public health issues

Non-medical prescriber

Nurse prescribing qualification

Specialist mentor qualification.

To ensure statutory and mandatory training is kept up to date.

3. Analytical and judgement skills

Proven ability to undertake community and client health need assessment

The ability to critique research and apply to practice.

4. Planning and organisational skills

Possess complex organisational skills including caseload management.

Possess complex organisational skills including caseload management delegating and organising the work of the team

To ensure team are aware of workload/whereabouts through use of electronic shared diaries

To ensure the team meet the required levels of compliance for statutory and mandatory

training and appraisals.

To co-ordinate annual leave, study leave and duty rotas.

Plan, evaluate and participate in the audit and standards of care.

5. Physical skills

Keyboard skills

Use of growth monitoring equipment e.g. scales, height/length measuring tools.

6. Responsibility for client care

To manage the caseload effectively within the resources available

To actively participate in the clinical governance agenda

To act as a public health resource and be responsible for developing, organising, implementing and evaluating specialist public health programmes to ensure evidence based health education and promotion to clients

Independent responsibility for managing and providing an advisory health visiting service

To work as an independent prescriber, diagnosing and prescribing treatment for a range of childhood conditions and minor ailments on completion of appropriate training

Safeguard the client group by adhering to child and adult guidelines and procedures. Key participant in child protection/children in need proceedings when appropriate; this may involve managing situations where conflicting opinions are expressed

To ensure close collaboration with other agencies to enable robust pathway planning and service delivery in line with the clients needs.

7. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

Participate in clinical supervision as per organisation policy

Actively participate in and support the development of evidence based practice and clinical audit in collaboration with lead professionals and managers

To actively participate in service or practice initiatives to improve client care standards and outcomes.

8. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

Record and submit accurate and timely data as required to inform service planning, community profiling and aid local development plans.

Authorised signatory for teams expenses, study leave etc.

9. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

Maintain professional registration by adhering to NMC requirements

Line manage the child development team to include recruitment, appraisals, clinical supervision, training and education, induction, rotas, sickness/absence monitoring with the support of the clinical lead child development

To support other staff within the team.

10. Responsibilities for information resources

Ensure all records are updated and safeguard clients confidentiality within legal and ethical principles (caldicott).

11. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

Actively participate in and support of evidence based practice and clinical audit in collaboration with managers and lead clinicians

12. Freedom to act

Guided by established policies and guidelines

Professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work

Works independently as an autonomous practitioner.

13. Physical effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

See below.

14. Mental effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

See below.

15. Emotional effort (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

See below.

16. Working conditions (refer to effort factor questionnaire)

See below

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• nurse registered
• post qualification experience

Desirable

• SCHPN Qualified
• Ecperience of working with families and children
• Leadership and management skills

essential

Essential

• interprofessional skills

Desirable

• experience of children's safeguarding

desirable

Essential

• Good IT Skills
• Good Communication skills

MCH values

Essential

• Good understanding of MCH values

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Snapdragons

Cliffe Road

Strood

ME2 3DL

Employer's website

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