Job summary
Start for Life Clinical Operational Lead:
Are you a clinician with experience of working in children's early years services?
Are you looking for a new challenge to bring together your clinical, operational and passion for service improvement?
We're seeking a Clinical Operational Lead to join us on a system wide pilot in Norfolk to improve the services we can collectively offer to children, young people and their families.
Norfolk Start for Life (SfL) allows families to access a variety of services through a single offer working with a range of partners, parents, and carers. Our goal is to launch an innovative workforce pilot to test the introduction of two new roles to work alongside existing health and care professionals and to support this being rolled out.
Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.
Main duties of the job
You will:
Be self-motivated, outcome focused, resilient and welcome new challenges.
Be a clinician with experience of working in children's early years services.
Have knowledge, experience and passion for developing clinicians and their teams.
You will have experience in protecting children's health, wellbeing and rights.
Have fantastic interpersonal skills, this project is all about working with and through people to improve the care we can provide for children, young people and their families.
We will:
Provide excellent training and development.
Give the opportunity to work with a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC
Consider Flexible working.
Provide access to a project that will directly improve the health outcomes for children and young people. We get values.
If this sounds like you, please apply today.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational Oversight
Provide operational and clinical oversight of the defined pathway and its interface with partner agencies and stakeholders to effectively introduce and embed new skill mix model.
Collaborate with the wider SFL project team to ensure the delivery of care plans for children and their families.
Commitment to supporting collaborative working with key stakeholders from maternity services, Mental Health services, Early years services to integrate packages of care.
Planning and organising complex service pathway information, handovers and packages of care across a range of Providers all supporting children and their families as part of a specialist integrated pathway.
Clinical leadership
In the absence of the identified SCPHN, retain some clinical practise.
Responsible for providing expertise and knowledge for children, young people and their families (to include areas such as health assessments, care planning, safeguarding, specialised public health promotion etc) as well as the health professionals and have a key role in the continuing development of the SFL skill mix team and development of the pathways.
Work alongside the healthy child programme clinical team to support, develop and deliver clinically robust services across the SFL skill mix team.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of ones own work including management of clients on the caseloads, management of time and resources in line with the NMC code of conduct and Trust Policies.
Provide training and development to new roles and across other teams within the locality on a range of subject areas.
Shape and deliver supervision to the clinical team and new roles.
Actively participate in the delivery of the Digital service offer.
To be a credible role model, demonstrating good practice and maintaining local, national, and professional standards.
Develop morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring that views and decisions are shared across the SFL team and wider service structure.
Safeguarding
To contribute to the design and implementation of the safeguarding children strategy in conjunction with the safeguarding team promoting evidence-based practice in safeguarding within Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS) with the SFL Skill mix team.
Providing analytical and judgement skills to assessing and interpretating situations, and providing appropriate action including child protection.
To provide safeguarding advice, support and safeguarding supervision to the SFL skill mix team.
To ensure that there is robust and effective clinical governance of safeguarding children processes in place.
Project governance
Work with the newly established SFL Parent and Carer panel, alongside Maternity Voices Partnerships and with participation structures which target underrepresented groups, to engage with families, carers and others to ensure new roles meet with the health needs of the local community.
Alongside the Workforce and Implementation lead, manage on time, within scope and budget the design and delivery of new roles as part of a pilot within the SFL offer and other interdependent services system wide.
Attend feedback meetings, business meetings and multi-agency meetings ensuring confidentiality is upheld.
Monitor and collate evidence on the outcomes of the pilot.
Ensure that all staff within the team are supported to use information systems for data collection, that deadlines are met for submitting data and that data is analysed to help allocate work and maximise productivity.
Work in partnership with staff engaged on other related projects or services across the local health community as a whole to share good practice, learning and products (i.e. competency frameworks, supervision models, training plan etc) as they are created.
Carry out all duties to the highest possible standard.
Reviewing complex sometimes conflicting information, assessing a range of options to support the outcomes of the SFL pilot.
Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders across the locality to create new workforce policies and frameworks for the system to support the transition from pilot to business as usual with the introduction of the new roles in the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational Oversight
Provide operational and clinical oversight of the defined pathway and its interface with partner agencies and stakeholders to effectively introduce and embed new skill mix model.
Collaborate with the wider SFL project team to ensure the delivery of care plans for children and their families.
Commitment to supporting collaborative working with key stakeholders from maternity services, Mental Health services, Early years services to integrate packages of care.
Planning and organising complex service pathway information, handovers and packages of care across a range of Providers all supporting children and their families as part of a specialist integrated pathway.
Clinical leadership
In the absence of the identified SCPHN, retain some clinical practise.
Responsible for providing expertise and knowledge for children, young people and their families (to include areas such as health assessments, care planning, safeguarding, specialised public health promotion etc) as well as the health professionals and have a key role in the continuing development of the SFL skill mix team and development of the pathways.
Work alongside the healthy child programme clinical team to support, develop and deliver clinically robust services across the SFL skill mix team.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of ones own work including management of clients on the caseloads, management of time and resources in line with the NMC code of conduct and Trust Policies.
Provide training and development to new roles and across other teams within the locality on a range of subject areas.
Shape and deliver supervision to the clinical team and new roles.
Actively participate in the delivery of the Digital service offer.
To be a credible role model, demonstrating good practice and maintaining local, national, and professional standards.
Develop morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring that views and decisions are shared across the SFL team and wider service structure.
Safeguarding
To contribute to the design and implementation of the safeguarding children strategy in conjunction with the safeguarding team promoting evidence-based practice in safeguarding within Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS) with the SFL Skill mix team.
Providing analytical and judgement skills to assessing and interpretating situations, and providing appropriate action including child protection.
To provide safeguarding advice, support and safeguarding supervision to the SFL skill mix team.
To ensure that there is robust and effective clinical governance of safeguarding children processes in place.
Project governance
Work with the newly established SFL Parent and Carer panel, alongside Maternity Voices Partnerships and with participation structures which target underrepresented groups, to engage with families, carers and others to ensure new roles meet with the health needs of the local community.
Alongside the Workforce and Implementation lead, manage on time, within scope and budget the design and delivery of new roles as part of a pilot within the SFL offer and other interdependent services system wide.
Attend feedback meetings, business meetings and multi-agency meetings ensuring confidentiality is upheld.
Monitor and collate evidence on the outcomes of the pilot.
Ensure that all staff within the team are supported to use information systems for data collection, that deadlines are met for submitting data and that data is analysed to help allocate work and maximise productivity.
Work in partnership with staff engaged on other related projects or services across the local health community as a whole to share good practice, learning and products (i.e. competency frameworks, supervision models, training plan etc) as they are created.
Carry out all duties to the highest possible standard.
Reviewing complex sometimes conflicting information, assessing a range of options to support the outcomes of the SFL pilot.
Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders across the locality to create new workforce policies and frameworks for the system to support the transition from pilot to business as usual with the introduction of the new roles in the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oFirst Level Degree or equivalent
- oRegistered Nurse /Midwife
- oRegistered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) (post grad qualification)
Desirable
- oLeadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards.
- oNSPCC or other Trust accredited safeguarding children supervision training or other relevant training.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of managing a team to include team performance, quality, recruitment and staffing issues.
- oAbility to work with Children & Young People and their families to provide holistic, evidence-based care
- oRelevant experience of safeguarding children.
- oCommunity Public Health experience (Minimum of two years)
- oAbility to work in partnership with other agencies
Desirable
- oExperience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring
- oLeadership experience / Experience of being a Domestic Violence Champion or Neglect Champion
Skills
Essential
- oLeadership, coaching and management skills.
- oDemonstrates an ability to remain child focused and facilitate the Think Family approach with health practitioners.
- oDemonstrates an ability to advise other agencies regarding the health needs of young people
- oExcellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information to diverse groups.
Desirable
- oResearch and development
- oSupervision skills both individual and group facilitation skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oFirst Level Degree or equivalent
- oRegistered Nurse /Midwife
- oRegistered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) (post grad qualification)
Desirable
- oLeadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards.
- oNSPCC or other Trust accredited safeguarding children supervision training or other relevant training.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of managing a team to include team performance, quality, recruitment and staffing issues.
- oAbility to work with Children & Young People and their families to provide holistic, evidence-based care
- oRelevant experience of safeguarding children.
- oCommunity Public Health experience (Minimum of two years)
- oAbility to work in partnership with other agencies
Desirable
- oExperience of providing clinical supervision and mentoring
- oLeadership experience / Experience of being a Domestic Violence Champion or Neglect Champion
Skills
Essential
- oLeadership, coaching and management skills.
- oDemonstrates an ability to remain child focused and facilitate the Think Family approach with health practitioners.
- oDemonstrates an ability to advise other agencies regarding the health needs of young people
- oExcellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information to diverse groups.
Desirable
- oResearch and development
- oSupervision skills both individual and group facilitation skills
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).
