Job summary
Team Leader Health Visiting Service
Previous applicants need not apply
Make a difference for Children, Young People and Families!
Are you a Health Visitor with substantial experience, looking for the next step in your career?
Are you passionate about leadership, team building, providing and developing excellent services for children and young people?
If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint a dedicated and determined Team leader to join our health Visiting service to ensure that children, young people and families get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.
Main duties of the job
As a permanent member of our teamYou will:
- Be supportive to lead and motivate your team(s)
- Be influential to inspire change
- Be committed to communicating the organisations strategy
- Be a facilitator to develop effective working relationships across agencies.
For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:
- Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high quality services
- Workforce management
- Finance and budgeting
- Education and development
- Performance management
- Digital technology
- Evidence based Practice and Research
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Job description
Job responsibilities
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trusts vision is to be the best integrated care organisation within the NHS. The Health Visiting Service is within an integrated Acute and Community Directorate that sits within the Women & Children's Group. The Directorates vision is to deliver integrated care to support women, children and families to start well, grow well and live well.
Our Health Visiting Service has been rated outstanding by CQC and we are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, and dedicated Health Visitor to work as a Team Leader within our service.
Team leaders provide excellent leadership and clinical support to the workforce, this support enables our health visitors to empower children and their families to make healthy lifestyle choices for improved health outcomes.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that provides high standards of care to children and families and strives to improve the wellbeing of the workforce through training opportunities and restorative support.
If you are ready to work in an inspiring environment, we welcome an application from you.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trusts vision is to be the best integrated care organisation within the NHS. The Health Visiting Service is within an integrated Acute and Community Directorate that sits within the Women & Children's Group. The Directorates vision is to deliver integrated care to support women, children and families to start well, grow well and live well.
Our Health Visiting Service has been rated outstanding by CQC and we are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative, and dedicated Health Visitor to work as a Team Leader within our service.
Team leaders provide excellent leadership and clinical support to the workforce, this support enables our health visitors to empower children and their families to make healthy lifestyle choices for improved health outcomes.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that provides high standards of care to children and families and strives to improve the wellbeing of the workforce through training opportunities and restorative support.
If you are ready to work in an inspiring environment, we welcome an application from you.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in Health Visiting
Qualifications
Essential
- Community Specialist HV degree
- Evidence of degree level studies
- NMC registration
- RGN/ Registered HV/RSN
- Nurse Prescribing qualification (HV only)
- Teaching qualification e.g. 997/998 or equivalent
Desirable
- Appropriate management/ Leadership qualification or working towards
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in Health Visiting
Qualifications
Essential
- Community Specialist HV degree
- Evidence of degree level studies
- NMC registration
- RGN/ Registered HV/RSN
- Nurse Prescribing qualification (HV only)
- Teaching qualification e.g. 997/998 or equivalent
Desirable
- Appropriate management/ Leadership qualification or working towards
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
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).
