Merton 0-19 Health Visiting Team is seeking a dynamic individual with a strong public health focus who is fully committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse population.

You will be an experienced SCPHN (BSc course) qualification and RGN Registered Nurse (Adult or Paediatric) with a real enthusiasm to manage the day-to-day, on-going delivery and development of the 0-19 years' service and teams within your remit.

You will provide a service that is responsive, high quality, value for money and meets our contractual obligations including service development.

You will support the 0-19 locality lead and Clinical Business Unit Manager in the management and leadership of the services within Merton. This will include leading your team in a multidisciplinary and working in partnership with other key stakeholders including GP's. You will be a highly motivated individual who confidently develops 0-19 teams supporting the management of change.

Main duties of the job

To establish and maintain a good working relationship with colleagues, the wider CSU health care team and other health, education and social care providers, so as to provide a comprehensive service to clients

To provide facilitative and supportive leadership and management to the public health team members

To have line management responsibility for the team including authorising annual leave via Allocate, monitoring of sickness absence, recruitment, performance management and application of HR policies as necessary including accurate recording

To initiate and where appropriate take the lead responsibility for service development activities.

Together with colleagues across the CLCH NHS Trust identify and manage the levels of staffing required to meet service needs utilising established resources

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T& C's apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification- school nursing or health visiting BSc or diploma
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
• Mentor training
• IT Literate

Desirable

• PHSE credited course
• Evidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g., Epilepsy, allergies

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Lavender Steers Mead children Centre

London

CR4 3HL

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

824-SOUTH-9921