Job summary
This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide inspiring and innovative clinical leadership within the Hull 0-19 Integrated Public Health Nursing Service. You will play a key role in driving practice development and leading the implementation of digital programmes that modernise and enhance service delivery for children, young people, and families. Your leadership will help embed innovation, promote best practice, and ensure that services remain responsive to the changing needs of the community.
We are seeking a highly skilled clinician with a strong clinical background and proven experience in transformational change. Working collaboratively with teams across the service, you will help shape future developments, ensuring service users receive timely, accurate, and relevant information and interventions in line with local policies and safeguarding procedures. The Clinical Lead will provide expert clinical leadership, offering advanced clinical expertise and strategic direction to support safe, effective, and evidence-based care. As a key leader within the service, you will champion high standards, drive quality improvement, and support the development of modern, integrated approaches that align with local and national public health nursing priorities.
Main duties of the job
Take accountability for your area of responsibility by providing strong clinical and professional leadership, while sharing organisational responsibility for the service.Ensure the safe delivery of evidence-based clinical interventions and best practice.Continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice, offering expert advice and support for service development and care delivery in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers, and partner agencies across the locality.Lead and promote high standards of clinical triage in line with locally agreed care standards, ensuring all clinical procedures are carried out correctly and safely within the service.Apply a sound understanding of the Children's Public Health agenda and the Healthy Child Programme (0-19), drawing on experience as a School Nurse or Health Visitor to inform practice.Provide leadership to a team of nurses, skill-mix practitioners, and administrative staff to deliver high-quality triage, clinical assessment, and advice.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Current registration on the NMC register -Professional qualification in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - health Visitor or School Nurse
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
- An accredited leadership qualification or be able to demonstrate advanced leadership and management skills; motivation, team building, developing positive interpersonal relationships, negotiation, conflict resolution, problem solving, managing change, being creative
Desirable
- Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
- A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
- Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
- Professional networking locally and regionally
Desirable
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Skills and Requirements
Essential
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Current registration on the NMC register -Professional qualification in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - health Visitor or School Nurse
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
- An accredited leadership qualification or be able to demonstrate advanced leadership and management skills; motivation, team building, developing positive interpersonal relationships, negotiation, conflict resolution, problem solving, managing change, being creative
Desirable
- Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
- A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
- Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
- Professional networking locally and regionally
Desirable
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Skills and Requirements
Essential
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
