Job summary

We are recruiting a permanent, full time Clinical Service Lead for School Health in Camden. We provide a wide range of public health, health improvement and support to individual children and families in approximately 50 schools across Camden.

You will operationally lead the School Nursing Service which is high performing against its commissioned targets and receives excellent feedback about how individual children, parents and schools themselves access high quality support from us. Within School Nursing we also offer a Healthy Living Service and Bladder and Bowel Support Service which are appropriately resourced and embedded within local partnerships in Camden.

We are looking for appoint a manager who can help us take this service from good to great; the individual we seek will have excellent communication and relationship-building skills, will be comfortable with taking the responsibility expected from a service lead and will be able to show that our staff and partner organisations are the most valuable indicators of their success.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

To lead the delivery of locality services in line with the Trust's strategic direction, ensuring the delivery of high value, patient centred, responsive and efficient patient care.

To work effectively with the designated operational contacts for local partners i.e. Schools, GP practices, CAMHs Teams, London Borough of Camden's Services for Children and Families ensuring effective communication and partnership working.

To ensure school nursing is delivered in a highly professional and clinically safe manner, in accordance with local and national policies and procedures, including compliance with Nursing and Midwifery Council & Care Quality Commission standards.

To provide management and clinical leadership to staff within areas of responsibility, ensuring implementation of and compliance with policies and procedures.

To take responsibility for ensuring effective capacity and demand management across the service in order to meet agreed activity levels, in line with the service specification and performance indicators

To be responsible for ensuring Quality Improvement measures are developed and implemented within areas of service responsibility.

To be responsible for the delegated budget and resource management in line with standing financial instructions.

About us

CNWL provides NHS servicesthroughout a person's life, in physical and mental health and everything inbetween, at GPs and hospitals to the community and in their own home.

The majority of our services are provided in the community, which means treating people in their homes or from clinics close to home. In this sense we are a very modern part of the NHS, something the new Long Term Plan wants to see more of, with better integration and coordination of care, delivered as close to home as possible

Where community care is not possible we offer a number of facilities to treat people in hospital or residential environments. We also provide healthcare in prisons in London and the surrounding areas.

Partnerships are central to what we do here - with patients and their families, with staff and with other organisations, especially commissioners and providers but also with local authorities, GPs, universities and the voluntary sector. We envisage more in the years to come.

We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To lead the delivery of locality services in line with the Trusts strategic direction,

ensuring the delivery of high value, patient centred, responsive and efficient patient

care.

To work effectively with the designated operational contacts for local partners

i.e. Schools, GP practices, CAMHs Teams, London Borough of Camdens Services for Children and Families ensuring effective communication and partnership working.

To ensure school nursing is delivered in a highly professional and clinically safe

manner, in accordance with local and national policies and procedures, including compliance with Nursing and Midwifery Council & Care Quality Commission standards.

To provide management and clinical leadership to staff within areas of responsibility,

ensuring implementation of and compliance with policies and procedures.

To take responsibility for ensuring effective capacity and demand management

across the service in order to meet agreed activity levels, in line with the service specification and performance indicators

To be responsible for ensuring Quality Improvement measures are developed and

implemented within areas of service responsibility.

To be responsible for the delegated budget and resource management in line with

standing financial instruction

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oClinical qualification to first degree level or equivalent
• oSpecialist Community Public Health Nurse Qualification.
• oKnowledge and expertise in management acquired through in depth experience or theoretical study, equivalent to post graduate level

Experience

Essential

• oSignificant experience in an NHS clinical service management/leadership role.
• oEvidence of management and leadership in complex & changing organisation circumstances.
• oKnowledge and experience of quality governance systems and processes.

Skills & Aptitudes

Essential

• oExcellent communication skills both oral and written, including the ability to liaise and negotiate
• oExperience and commitment to involve patients and service users in the design and development of service provision
• oPlanning and performance management skills and techniques
• oWorking under pressure often prolonged with unpredictable work pattern.

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