Clinical Team Leader - Healthy Together Area 1NHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Families, Young People, Childrens and Learning Disability Directorate for a Clinical Team Leader (CTL) to lead our Healthy Together 0-5 Team in Leicester City.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) who is passionate about improving outcomes for babies, children and families.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner with strong leadership skills.

As a Clinical Team Leader, you will provide operational and clinical leadership within a Healthy Together 0-5 Team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality services.

You will be responsible for performance, quality, safeguarding, staff development, service improvement and partnership working. You will lead our friendly, child-focused team, promoting continuous quality improvement and professional development while providing strong clinical leadership to support evidence-based practice and the best possible outcomes for children and families.

Working with statutory, voluntary and community partners, you will support vulnerable families, drive public health initiatives, improve performance and embed innovation and best practice.

Car owner/driver and current driving licence are essential.

Contact: Sam Newby, Family Service Manager - [email protected] or Lisa Murray, Family Service Manager - [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities

Clinical Work to include a variety of face to face clinical work with children and families.

Accountable and responsible as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and Team Leader for updating and maintaining own knowledge and skills.

To be responsible for the management of equitable caseloads, delegating appropriately to team members, identifying gaps in service provision and escalating risks to prevent harm and poor outcomes.

Be a safeguarding expert within the team, offering support, supervision, escalating concerns and offering support to practitioners.

Co-ordination and leadership of the Healthy Together team, ensuring that there are systems in place for preceptorship, mentorship, appraisals, performance management, clinical supervision, training and development.

For more details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

“If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto “Apply for this job” and you will be re-directed to our vacancies page where you can review the job description and person specification.”

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community.

We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.