Job summary
We seek an enthusiastic, highly skilled, experienced children's nurse ( SCPHN /Paediatric Nurse) who is currently in a leadership role with an ambition to be as a senior manager. We welcome a dynamic individual with an interest in the development, delivery and redesign of ty children's nursing services, ensuring high quality, personalised care to all users. Services include Harrow 0-19 , Harrow Children Looked After and Community Children's Nursing including special school Nursing.
You will be the professional lead for Harrow Children's nursing services working with the Nursing directorate to ensure professional leadership, practice and expertise across teams.
You will be an integral member of Harrow Children's Services leadership Team working (alongside colleagues in therapy services and Community Paediatrics) to improve the services in Harrow . You will work within the Harrow Children Integrated Partnership in planning an delivering initiatives such as child health hubs and family centres .
This exciting role enables you to gain experience in the management and delivery of Children's Nursing services within the CYPFS division. You will implement and manage systems and processes to ensure that services comply with Trust-wide policies and national/local targets.
We offer excellent support systems , appraisal personal development plans to meet your specific needs with opportunities to develop leadership skills across Children's services.
Main duties of the job
- To line manage staff, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and continuing professional development is robustly undertaken to optimise both individual and organisational performance .
- To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective communication, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- To act as a senior clinical champion influencing multi-disciplinary staff to make change, ensuring that service improvements are acceptable and sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
- To be a source of a high level of clinical expertise across the field of CYP providing both general and specialist advice for clinicians on the full range of relevant issues including aspects of risk assessment and management
- To work alongside key colleagues and develop constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation.
- To include patient's perspectives within service improvements.
- To identify and lead on the delivery of productivity and efficiency savings .
- To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and compliance.
- To contribute to the annual business planning cycle.
- To deputise for the Head of CYPF Services as appropriate.
- Prepare written and oral progress reports setting out progress in relation to the work and learning within the various services
About us
The main base is Milman's Resource Centre in Pinner, Harrow which is adjacent to Pinner village and has good public transport facilities.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To line manage staff, (within specific area of responsibility as identified above), from varying backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise bothindividual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance.
- To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- To act as a senior clinical champion influencing multi-disciplinary staff to make change, ensuring that service improvements are acceptable and sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
- To be a source of a high level of clinical expertise across the field of Childrens and Young Persons Nursing services, by providing both general and specialist advice for clinicians delivering nursing interventions, on the full range of relevant issues including nursing aspects of risk assessment and management
- To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation.
- To ensure that appropriate methods are used to ensure the inclusion of patients perspectives within service improvements.
- To identify and lead on the delivery of productivity and efficiency savings within the specific areas of responsibility.
- To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.
- To contribute to and participate in the annual business planning cycle.
- To deputise for the Head of CYPF Services as appropriate.
- Prepare written and oral progress reports setting out progress in relation to the work and learning within the various services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To line manage staff, (within specific area of responsibility as identified above), from varying backgrounds, both clinical and non-clinical, ensuring that individual staff performance, appraisal and development is robustly undertaken to optimise bothindividual and organisational performance and that all staff have access to continuing professional education and development to maximise performance.
- To support teams to perform effectively in-service delivery and ensure effective positive communication, promoting both multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
- To act as a senior clinical champion influencing multi-disciplinary staff to make change, ensuring that service improvements are acceptable and sustainable across both professional and organisational boundaries.
- To be a source of a high level of clinical expertise across the field of Childrens and Young Persons Nursing services, by providing both general and specialist advice for clinicians delivering nursing interventions, on the full range of relevant issues including nursing aspects of risk assessment and management
- To work alongside key colleagues to develop appropriate and constructive relationships both within and external to the organisation.
- To ensure that appropriate methods are used to ensure the inclusion of patients perspectives within service improvements.
- To identify and lead on the delivery of productivity and efficiency savings within the specific areas of responsibility.
- To work with the Head of Quality Governance and implement systems and processes to manage risk and ensure full compliance with internal and external governance procedures within the specific services.
- To contribute to and participate in the annual business planning cycle.
- To deputise for the Head of CYPF Services as appropriate.
- Prepare written and oral progress reports setting out progress in relation to the work and learning within the various services.
Person Specification
Qualifications and education
Essential
- Registered nurse ( diploma/ degree in nursing related area) Post registered qualification SCPHN , health visiting , school nursing or Children's
- oEvidence of post registration professional development
- oClinical teaching or supervision qualification
Desirable
- Has or working towards MSc/MA relevant to post
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Delivering nursing services to CYP across a range of community settings
- Team management, Leadership experience, including recruitment, appraisals and staff development
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your clinical teams, demonstrate innovation in practice/service development and delivery
- Detailed knowledge and application of clinical governance and risk management processes and its impact on practice including research and audit
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to children's community services oAbility to interpret health / social policy analyse complex information and make recommendations with a detailed understanding of the national agenda for children's services- both legislative and direction of travel (including SEND
- Partnership working within and external to organisation
- Understanding and experience of financial management
- Evidence of constructive collaboration to achieve successful partnership working
- Ability to influence service development and delivery in line with national and local drivers and organizational change
- Able to demonstrate innovation in practice/service development and delivery
- Experience of undertaking research and audit
- Experience of dealing with complaints
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to children's community services
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Prioritising and managing workload within a busy operational role
Physical skills and emotional effort
Essential
- oPhysical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills oPhysical fitness for walking short distances
- oAbility to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with verbal and physical agression
Physical Skills and Emotional Effort
Essential
- Physical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills
- Physical fitness for walking short distances
- Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills and presentation skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude; and deal with complex work pressures demands and interruptions
- Ability to write clear, concise reports
- Good IT skills
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities.
Desirable
- Car user/driver with full GB licence
Person Specification
Qualifications and education
Essential
- Registered nurse ( diploma/ degree in nursing related area) Post registered qualification SCPHN , health visiting , school nursing or Children's
- oEvidence of post registration professional development
- oClinical teaching or supervision qualification
Desirable
- Has or working towards MSc/MA relevant to post
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Delivering nursing services to CYP across a range of community settings
- Team management, Leadership experience, including recruitment, appraisals and staff development
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your clinical teams, demonstrate innovation in practice/service development and delivery
- Detailed knowledge and application of clinical governance and risk management processes and its impact on practice including research and audit
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to children's community services oAbility to interpret health / social policy analyse complex information and make recommendations with a detailed understanding of the national agenda for children's services- both legislative and direction of travel (including SEND
- Partnership working within and external to organisation
- Understanding and experience of financial management
- Evidence of constructive collaboration to achieve successful partnership working
- Ability to influence service development and delivery in line with national and local drivers and organizational change
- Able to demonstrate innovation in practice/service development and delivery
- Experience of undertaking research and audit
- Experience of dealing with complaints
- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment; particularly in relation to children's community services
- Ability to relate to people of all disciplines and at all levels within the organisation
- Prioritising and managing workload within a busy operational role
Physical skills and emotional effort
Essential
- oPhysical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills oPhysical fitness for walking short distances
- oAbility to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with verbal and physical agression
Physical Skills and Emotional Effort
Essential
- Physical dexterity required for basic keyboard skills
- Physical fitness for walking short distances
- Ability to manage sensitive and politically sensitive issues
- Ability to deal with exposure to verbal and physical aggression
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills and presentation skills
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude; and deal with complex work pressures demands and interruptions
- Ability to write clear, concise reports
- Good IT skills
- Flexible and adaptable to meet deadlines, commitments and priorities.
Desirable
- Car user/driver with full GB licence
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).
