Job summary
Health Visiting Team Lead 0-19 - Band 7 - Wandsworth
Are you looking to move to Band 7 Team Lead post, are you wanting to work in a highly successful Trust?
We are seeking a full-time, highly motivated and innovative Health Visitor to join us, working as a team lead in the borough of Wandsworth.
You will be working in a highly motivated and well-supported team and working to address the public health needs within our borough.
We have good links with the multi-disciplinary team and our stakeholders. Whilst you will be a Health Visiting team lead, our service ensures we fully embrace the 0-19 Years integrated service, working with all partner services.
At CLCH NHS Trust, we make sure our systems and processes meet all national and organisational standards, and we invest heavily in employing and keeping highly committed staff. We strive to deliver the best care and uphold our Trust's values.
If you align with our Trust values and possess strong leadership skills to lead our skill mix teams to improve the health and well-being of our diverse families in Wandsworth, we invite you to apply for this role.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and professional leadership and management of the health visiting team, ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive and high-quality needs led service
To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative public health service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based public health service to clients in a variety of community settings.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.
Plan, organise, evaluate and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the 0-19 team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.
To develop leadership and management skills in others; supporting teams to be involved in planning, implementing and evaluating services
To promote effective teamwork within the wider multiagency team and with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities.
To monitor the quality-of-service provision, reviewing key performance indicator reports and identifying areas for service and professional development and facilitate their implementation.
About us
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
** Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
** Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Nurse / registered Midwife with full and current UK NMC registration
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification - school nursing or health visiting BSc or diploma
- Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
Desirable
- PHSE credited course
- oEvidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g. Infant feeding, SLT, allergies, epilepsy
Experience
Essential
- Recent health visiting experience
- Experience of coordinating and leading multi-skilled teams
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working. Ability to facilitate joint working practices
- Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning and implementing evidence-based programmes of care
- Writing care plans
- Experience of developing the public health agenda
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of innovative practice or project management
- Experience of line managing team members
- Experience of developing clinical standards and protocols.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in public health nursing and health and social care legislation
- Current knowledge of safeguarding children guidelines and relevant legal aspects
- Knowledge of the public health agenda and the health care needs of individuals in the community
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills i.e., administration of immunisations
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Nurse / registered Midwife with full and current UK NMC registration
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification - school nursing or health visiting BSc or diploma
- Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
Desirable
- PHSE credited course
- oEvidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g. Infant feeding, SLT, allergies, epilepsy
Experience
Essential
- Recent health visiting experience
- Experience of coordinating and leading multi-skilled teams
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working. Ability to facilitate joint working practices
- Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning and implementing evidence-based programmes of care
- Writing care plans
- Experience of developing the public health agenda
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of innovative practice or project management
- Experience of line managing team members
- Experience of developing clinical standards and protocols.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in public health nursing and health and social care legislation
- Current knowledge of safeguarding children guidelines and relevant legal aspects
- Knowledge of the public health agenda and the health care needs of individuals in the community
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills i.e., administration of immunisations
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
