Job summary
Are you passionate about services that support families?
Then join the Childrens services and let us work together to provide the Best Start and ongoing support to our Children, Young People and Families in Tower Hamlets.
The GP Care Group is delighted to announce exciting opportunities within the Childrens Service.
We are launching our Quality agenda and are very excited to be recruiting to our team of Specialist SCPHN Nurses (Health Visitors) who have are key role in supporting front-line teams to provide a high quality and integrated care and support to parents and babies.
The team will have a key role in ensuring the full Healthy Child Programme and High Impact Areas are delivered and contribute to addressing health inequalities, working closely with our Family Hub/GP Practices/community childrens service and 3rd Sector to deliver integrated services that are innovative, progressive and responsive to the needs of Tower Hamlets community.
You'll be part of a dedicated team focused on making a tangible difference in the lives of families in Tower Hamlets.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
Main duties of the job
They will have the key responsibility to support the Health Visitors to effectively implement the MECSH Programme within their practice and work collaboratively with them to improve the equity and quality of child and family health service delivery.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
Innovation and support for primary care
Being a great place to work
Integrating primary and community care
Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Aim of the role
Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting (MECSH) is a licensed intervention programme delivered within Tower Hamlets GPCG 0-19 Service. The MECSH Specialist Practitioner will work with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder and Health Visiting teams.
They will have the key responsibility to support the Health Visitors to effectively implement the MECSH Programme within their practice and work collaboratively with them to improve the equity and quality of child and family health service delivery.
They will support clinical practices for MECSH within the service through training, reflection, supervision, and case review and have a caseload of MECSH clients.
They will be responsible for the allocation of MECSH clients within the teams and act as a role model for practice.
They will provide MECSH training for new staff.
They will work collaboratively with the Health Visiting Locality Clinical Managers.
Main duties and responsibilities
CLINICAL DUTIES
- To hold a small caseload of MECSH clients.
- Undertake home visits in accordance with MECSH.
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
- Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with all members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- At all times keep the safety of the child and family in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Contribute to the Healthy Child Programme, including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
- Support the delivery of MECSH Programme components and training to Health Visitors.
- Actively contributes to the development of sound clinical practice in the delivery of the MECSH Programme.
- Acts as a resource and mentor to others in relation to MECSH clinical practice
- Provides effective and timely support to Health Visitors delivering the MECSH Programme in Tower Hamlets in accordance with licence and program requirements. To include provision of accurate and relevant advice and exercising of significant judgement in appropriate interpretation of programme and licence requirements in response to site needs.
- Provide monitoring through reflective supervision to Health Visitors to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To facilitate MECSH community groups.
- Development of MECSH documentation and materials in response to site needs.
- Contribute to and attend the ongoing MECSH Community of Practice Brief and yearly conference.
PROFESSIONALISM
- For the MECSH leads and Health Visitors to use the MECSH model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating Early Help Assessments (EHA) and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required.
- To be involved with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder in analysing reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness, and accuracy as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
TEACHING AND TRAINING
- Attend train the trainer programme to be able to provide training on MECSH.
- Effective provision, identification, and development of MECSH training programmes with participant feedback.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation in line with NMC requirements.
- Participate in individual management/clinical/safeguarding supervision support and facilitate the training and development of team members who need to improve service delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Through mentorship and preceptorship.
- Maintain contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and employer policies.
- Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice.
- Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
- Report any concerns regarding professional practice to the Locality Clinical Manager, Clinical Lead, or an appropriate other.
- Participate in complaint / incident investigation, problem solving and remedial action where necessary.
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk utilising expertise within or outside the organisation when needed.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements with particular attention to lone worker and manual handling policies.
RESEARCH
- Detailed and comprehensive documentation of MECSH implementation support processes is prepared in a timely manner to support research.
- To take part in audits, service reviews and research.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Aim of the role
Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-Visiting (MECSH) is a licensed intervention programme delivered within Tower Hamlets GPCG 0-19 Service. The MECSH Specialist Practitioner will work with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder and Health Visiting teams.
They will have the key responsibility to support the Health Visitors to effectively implement the MECSH Programme within their practice and work collaboratively with them to improve the equity and quality of child and family health service delivery.
They will support clinical practices for MECSH within the service through training, reflection, supervision, and case review and have a caseload of MECSH clients.
They will be responsible for the allocation of MECSH clients within the teams and act as a role model for practice.
They will provide MECSH training for new staff.
They will work collaboratively with the Health Visiting Locality Clinical Managers.
Main duties and responsibilities
CLINICAL DUTIES
- To hold a small caseload of MECSH clients.
- Undertake home visits in accordance with MECSH.
- Use high level interpersonal and communication skills to provide and receive complex and often highly sensitive information.
- Use strengths based, solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Use professional and clinical judgement to undertake detailed assessments of clients and their families and analyse complex family situations to develop appropriate clinical interventions.
- Actively engage and work with all members of the extended family to achieve positive outcomes for children.
- Apply knowledge and skills to a range of clinical and family situations.
- Work effectively in potentially highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances, e.g. safeguarding children or family breakdown.
- At all times keep the safety of the child and family in mind, and work within local safeguarding policies as appropriate.
- Contribute to the Healthy Child Programme, including professional assessments of childrens growth, development and language skills.
- Complete full, accurate and contemporaneous records.
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
- Support the delivery of MECSH Programme components and training to Health Visitors.
- Actively contributes to the development of sound clinical practice in the delivery of the MECSH Programme.
- Acts as a resource and mentor to others in relation to MECSH clinical practice
- Provides effective and timely support to Health Visitors delivering the MECSH Programme in Tower Hamlets in accordance with licence and program requirements. To include provision of accurate and relevant advice and exercising of significant judgement in appropriate interpretation of programme and licence requirements in response to site needs.
- Provide monitoring through reflective supervision to Health Visitors to ensure that expertise in clinical methods is developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.
- To facilitate MECSH community groups.
- Development of MECSH documentation and materials in response to site needs.
- Contribute to and attend the ongoing MECSH Community of Practice Brief and yearly conference.
PROFESSIONALISM
- For the MECSH leads and Health Visitors to use the MECSH model to initiate, plan and co-ordinate clients care in consultation and collaboration with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to women and their families. This includes initiating Early Help Assessments (EHA) and taking lead professional role in safeguarding situations where required.
- To be involved with the Clinical Lead MECSH portfolio holder in analysing reports on data for service development and develop quality improvement measures to assure data quality, completeness, and accuracy as well as improvements in programme delivery.
- Develop systems for user involvement and support clients to offer feedback on the service received, integrating this into local or national improvement measures.
- Be aware of, inform and abide by provider services approved policies, standards and quality assurance initiatives.
TEACHING AND TRAINING
- Attend train the trainer programme to be able to provide training on MECSH.
- Effective provision, identification, and development of MECSH training programmes with participant feedback.
CLINICAL GOVERNANCE
- Maintain professional registration and revalidation in line with NMC requirements.
- Participate in individual management/clinical/safeguarding supervision support and facilitate the training and development of team members who need to improve service delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency. Through mentorship and preceptorship.
- Maintain contemporaneous records in line with NMC guidelines and employer policies.
- Work within the clinical governance framework to ensure that governance is embedded in clinical practice.
- Monitor the quality of care delivery and record keeping ensuring wherever possible that it is evidence based.
- Report any concerns regarding professional practice to the Locality Clinical Manager, Clinical Lead, or an appropriate other.
- Participate in complaint / incident investigation, problem solving and remedial action where necessary.
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk utilising expertise within or outside the organisation when needed.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements with particular attention to lone worker and manual handling policies.
RESEARCH
- Detailed and comprehensive documentation of MECSH implementation support processes is prepared in a timely manner to support research.
- To take part in audits, service reviews and research.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders, including local authority services, healthcare teams, educational institutions, and voluntary organisations. Ability to liaise and coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams and maintain effective relationships across various services.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing leadership and support to teams, including the ability to manage and mentor colleagues, contribute to service development, and ensure quality improvements. Capability to oversee and contribute to strategic initiatives and service enhancements.
Other requirements
Essential
- The candidate must demonstrate strong skills in managing change, containing conflict, and using negotiation to achieve positive outcomes, which are critical in this dynamic and evolving environment.
Abilities
Essential
- Strong analytical skills to assess and interpret data related to MECSH services. Experience in quality improvement processes, including conducting audits, implementing evidence-based practices, and gathering user feedback to drive service enhancements.
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven ability to develop and coordinate integrated pathways for MECSH support, including pre- and post-diagnosis. Experience in creating and delivering training programmes for professionals and families on MECSH concerns
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders, including local authority services, healthcare teams, educational institutions, and voluntary organisations. Ability to liaise and coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams and maintain effective relationships across various services.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing leadership and support to teams, including the ability to manage and mentor colleagues, contribute to service development, and ensure quality improvements. Capability to oversee and contribute to strategic initiatives and service enhancements.
Other requirements
Essential
- The candidate must demonstrate strong skills in managing change, containing conflict, and using negotiation to achieve positive outcomes, which are critical in this dynamic and evolving environment.
Abilities
Essential
- Strong analytical skills to assess and interpret data related to MECSH services. Experience in quality improvement processes, including conducting audits, implementing evidence-based practices, and gathering user feedback to drive service enhancements.
Knowledge
Essential
- Proven ability to develop and coordinate integrated pathways for MECSH support, including pre- and post-diagnosis. Experience in creating and delivering training programmes for professionals and families on MECSH concerns
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).
