Professional Lead : Children and Young People's 0-19 Service

Job description

Job responsibilities

FULL JD AND JOB SPECIFICATION- SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT.

Professional Responsibilities:

The Professional Lead will be responsible for leading and developing the Healthy Child Programme workforce across Southend ensuring that services are safe, effective, evidenced based and of a high quality.

They will act as an outstanding role model for delivering client centred care, emphasising the importance of performance, professionalism, appearance, and accountability in caring for self and others.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the contribution and engagement of Childrens Public Health Services in the development of an Integrated Childrens Workforce in partnership with A Better Start Southend, Social Services, maternity Services, Early Years and Early Help and third sector organisations within Southend.

The Professional Lead will be responsible for managing and ensuring of Childrens 0-19 Public Health Services meet key organisational targets and deliver against local, including the Southend 2050 Ambition, local NHS priorities (MSEs HCP 5-yr Strategy) and National priorities.

They will be responsible for ensuring that Childrens Public Health Services are continually developing and evaluating services to ensure that they are responsive to any changing needs and demands.

Have first line operational management responsibility for the:

• Public Health Team Leaders
• Specialist School Nurse
• Specialist Teams (within Health Visiting and School Nursing)
• Education Lead 0-19

Be accountable and responsible for the professional leadership of the workforce ensuring there are robust communications pathways in place and that staff are aware of relevant professional issues.

Work alongside the team leaders to ensure that all nursing staff maintain clinical competence and professional registration and work within professional codes of conduct and local policies and procedures.

Oversight of the NMC professional register to ensure that all nurse registrants are compliant to NMC registration requirements.

Maintain operational oversight of child exploitation pathways and partnership risk management meetings.

Provide the operational leadership for the service SEND offer to ensure universal services are compliant with responsibilities in regard to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice (2015).

To ensure effective transfer and communication pathways in place with Maternity Providers across the Mid and South Essex Health Care Partnership.

Contribute to the evaluation processes for jointly delivered services within the A Better Start Partnership.

Have overall responsibility for key priority areas including NCMP, healthy weight pathways, emotional wellbeing support offer for children and young people , SEND, children who are Electively Home -Educated, and reducing health inequalities for children workstreams.

Have overall responsibility and oversight for key priority areas including breastfeeding and infant nutrition, transition to parenthood, integrated 2-year review, immunisation, teenage pregnancy pathway, and improving health inequality.

Work in partnership with local partners on delivering high impact pathways as integral component of the school nursing pathway.

Develop strong governance frameworks with responsibility for developing and implementing standards, policies, protocols, and operating procedures ensuring all services are safe evidencing compliance through an annual audit plan.

Service Planning and Performance:

In conjunction with the Senior Public Health Lead, develop service plans to meet agreed strategic direction and deliver the wider corporate objectives.

Ensure that the service can demonstrate it is compliant with CQC standards of practice through robust maintenance of Key Lines of enquiry evidence portfolio.

Work with the Operational Performance & Intelligence Team to compile monthly service reports and review caseload analysis to ensure that service delivery is responsive to population needs, demographic trends and safe staffing.

Ensure resources are utilised effectively, through appropriate skill mix, staff education and development and workforce planning.

Training and Education:

Contribute to the development of staff to ensure that the service provided reflects best practice, remains evidence based, is current and responsive to meet changing health needs of local population, Local Authority and NHS.

To encourage and assess professional development through action learning, reflective practice, professional supervision, self-appraisal, and performance review.

To ensure compliance with clinical supervision, management supervision and safeguarding supervision in line with KPIs and ensure the timely reporting to Safeguarding Clinical Network (ICS) and the Southend Safeguarding Childrens Partnership Subgroups.

To act as a specialist resource promoting and upskilling the 0-19 Childrens Public Health Service and other agencies regarding a Better Start in Life.

Oversight of the education and training framework for pre and post registration students. Liaising with the local Higher Education Establishment to ensure effective joined up recruitment processes are in place and that the service is compliant with NMC standards for Education.

Lead service participation in multi-agency training when required.

To review and develop ongoing training requirements for professional development of the service.

Identify personal training needs and development through the process of appraisal and management supervision.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant and relevant experience in operational management of community children's services .
• Experienced in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
• Proven experience of working within a specialist or senior health visiting role with relevant skills, knowledge and understanding of public health principles and practices.
• Experience of performance management of individuals.
• Experience of evaluating and developing teams to achieve improvement in service delivery.
• Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of clinical and corporate governance systems.
• Evidence of using and implementing evidenced based practice in a specialist community children's services area.
• Evidence of managing financial resources.

Desirable

• Use of SystmOne
• Experience of leading workforce re-design and project management

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered General Nurse /Registered Sick Children's Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Registered SCPHN
• Post Graduate qualification/education

Additional

Essential

• Current Full UK Driving Licence and car
• A committed, enthusiastic person who can demonstrate good team working and autonomy
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Skilled in managing and prioritising own caseload and workload
• Flexibility in working hours and environment
• Time management skills
• Excellent IT skills

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of 0-19 Children's Health agendas and priorities.
• Detailed knowledge of the legislative framework for Public Health Nursing Services.
• A good working knowledge of current inspection and assessment framework.
• Understanding of the challenges facing the children's public health nursing workforce.
• Knowledge on performance management and service delivery prioritisation.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the delivery of the Healthy Child programme.
• Knowledge of safeguarding processes, including familiarity with MARAC/MASH principals

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.

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

Southend On Sea Borough Council

Address

Southend On Sea City Council

Victoria Avenue

Southend-on-sea

SS2 6ER

Employer's website

https://www.southend.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)