Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Flying Start Health Visiting team within Swansea Bay University Health Board. We are looking for a compassionate, approachable, and enthusiastic individual who can work on their own initiative and as part of the team. The post holder will be based in Swansea Bay within a named Cluster. The role of the Team leader will be to provide excellent leadership and clinical support to the workforce. This support will enable our health visiting teams to empower children and their families to make healthy lifestyle choices for improved health outcomes.
This is an excellent career opportunity to join a health visiting service that provides high standards of care to children and families and strives to ensure the wellbeing of the workforce through training opportunities and restorative support.
Are you passionate about leadership, team building, providing, and developing excellent services for children and young people? If you are ready to work in an inspiring environment, we welcome an application from you.
Main duties of the job
As a permanent member of our team, you will be supportive to lead and motivate your team to:
Be influential to inspire change through collective leadership.
Be committed to communicate the organisation strategy.
Be effective in fostering effective working relationships.
For the areas where you lead the teams you will take an active role with the support of the management team for:
Ensuring safe, effective and responsive high quality care.
Support with workforce management and performance management .
Education and development.
Evidence based practice and research opportunities.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary/Job Purpose:
The post holder will demonstrate the Health Boards values of dignity, respect, fairness, integrity, honesty, openness and caring, kindness and compassion in everything that you do in the work environment and ensure that others demonstrate the same values.
Exercise day to day accountability for the management of the Health Visiting caseload, to include leading and developing the core Health Visiting establishment in the delivery of compassionate, high quality, effective, patient-centred care; and providing fair, honest and measured people management.
Provide visible, professional nursing leadership, support, supervision and guidance (in line with NMC standards), expert clinical advice/intervention on specialist complex issues within own field and undertake management and monitoring activities in line with legal and professional requirements, statutory rules and Health Board policies relating to evidence based practice.
Have an understanding of the management of the allocated budget, and utilising the allocated resources and raising any financial expenditure concerns to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
Ensure the complex needs of service users, and their families, are addressed in a sensitive and empathic manner. This will include supporting the assessment, implementation, and re-evaluation of continuing assessments.
Work and communicate effectively as a member of the senior clinical and Health Visiting leadership team for the directorate/service, collaborating with other SCPHN Health Visiting Team Lead Coordinators, Health Board and site based meetings.
Create and promote a learning culture within the clinical area to support the professional growth and development of all nursing staff, students and (as appropriate) members of the multi-disciplinary team.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Work autonomously to plan own work schedule plans, in view of daily and weekly management responsibilities along with leadership and supervisory aspects of the role.
Supervise the professional and clinical work allocating work effectively, considering skill and competency of staff and patient requirement and delegate the delivery of care where appropriate, in line with NHS Wales delegation framework ensuring staff are using evidence based practice. .
Support staff in upholding the standards in the NMC Code (2018) as part of providing the quality and safety of care expected by service users and regulators.
Take responsibility for effective rostering of staff to ensure that the team has effective skill mix and staffing levels to meet demand; and that staff health and well-being is a key consideration underpinning the rosters produced. Escalating concerns to operational manager
Maintain, monitor and evaluate standards ensuring evidence based quality of care is provided by the Health Visiting team and respectfully challenge/take appropriate action when care falls below the expected standards.
Take responsibility for the environment of care, ensuring infection control policies and procedures in place and participate in relevant monthly audit and act upon the results.
Support a culture for learning and development through promotion of a reflective approach to practice and utilising a supportive clinical supervision framework in support of team members as appropriate.
Promote a positive research culture, contributing to the wider research agenda through initiating or supporting research activity.
Deal with complex clinical and managerial situations that arise, analysing data and information, seeking appropriate help and making decisions in relation to patient risk and care and take appropriate action.
Seek appropriate advice/alert agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any child or their dependents e.g. child safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult, mental capacity and deprivation of liberty.
Promote collaboration across disciplines and across agencies to ensure timely, safe, compassionate service user -centred care is planned and delivered by the service at all times.
Undertake assessments, plan, implement, evaluate interventions with service users Promote and undertake health promotion and disease prevention activities
Have an innovative approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities. Acting as a change agent and facilitating the change process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary/Job Purpose:
The post holder will demonstrate the Health Boards values of dignity, respect, fairness, integrity, honesty, openness and caring, kindness and compassion in everything that you do in the work environment and ensure that others demonstrate the same values.
Exercise day to day accountability for the management of the Health Visiting caseload, to include leading and developing the core Health Visiting establishment in the delivery of compassionate, high quality, effective, patient-centred care; and providing fair, honest and measured people management.
Provide visible, professional nursing leadership, support, supervision and guidance (in line with NMC standards), expert clinical advice/intervention on specialist complex issues within own field and undertake management and monitoring activities in line with legal and professional requirements, statutory rules and Health Board policies relating to evidence based practice.
Have an understanding of the management of the allocated budget, and utilising the allocated resources and raising any financial expenditure concerns to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
Ensure the complex needs of service users, and their families, are addressed in a sensitive and empathic manner. This will include supporting the assessment, implementation, and re-evaluation of continuing assessments.
Work and communicate effectively as a member of the senior clinical and Health Visiting leadership team for the directorate/service, collaborating with other SCPHN Health Visiting Team Lead Coordinators, Health Board and site based meetings.
Create and promote a learning culture within the clinical area to support the professional growth and development of all nursing staff, students and (as appropriate) members of the multi-disciplinary team.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Work autonomously to plan own work schedule plans, in view of daily and weekly management responsibilities along with leadership and supervisory aspects of the role.
Supervise the professional and clinical work allocating work effectively, considering skill and competency of staff and patient requirement and delegate the delivery of care where appropriate, in line with NHS Wales delegation framework ensuring staff are using evidence based practice. .
Support staff in upholding the standards in the NMC Code (2018) as part of providing the quality and safety of care expected by service users and regulators.
Take responsibility for effective rostering of staff to ensure that the team has effective skill mix and staffing levels to meet demand; and that staff health and well-being is a key consideration underpinning the rosters produced. Escalating concerns to operational manager
Maintain, monitor and evaluate standards ensuring evidence based quality of care is provided by the Health Visiting team and respectfully challenge/take appropriate action when care falls below the expected standards.
Take responsibility for the environment of care, ensuring infection control policies and procedures in place and participate in relevant monthly audit and act upon the results.
Support a culture for learning and development through promotion of a reflective approach to practice and utilising a supportive clinical supervision framework in support of team members as appropriate.
Promote a positive research culture, contributing to the wider research agenda through initiating or supporting research activity.
Deal with complex clinical and managerial situations that arise, analysing data and information, seeking appropriate help and making decisions in relation to patient risk and care and take appropriate action.
Seek appropriate advice/alert agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any child or their dependents e.g. child safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult, mental capacity and deprivation of liberty.
Promote collaboration across disciplines and across agencies to ensure timely, safe, compassionate service user -centred care is planned and delivered by the service at all times.
Undertake assessments, plan, implement, evaluate interventions with service users Promote and undertake health promotion and disease prevention activities
Have an innovative approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities. Acting as a change agent and facilitating the change process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- SCPHN
- BSc in health related area
Desirable
- Masters degree in health related subject
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Appropriate experience within speciality and demonstrate sound knowledge of relevant speciality
- Demonstrate SBUHB values
Desirable
- Demonstrates leadership skills
- Sound knowledge of HR policies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- SCPHN
- BSc in health related area
Desirable
- Masters degree in health related subject
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Appropriate experience within speciality and demonstrate sound knowledge of relevant speciality
- Demonstrate SBUHB values
Desirable
- Demonstrates leadership skills
- Sound knowledge of HR policies
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).
