Job responsibilities
The purpose
of the job is to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and
families and address inequalities, as a specialist community public health
nurse through the delivery of the healthy child programme and leading skill
mixed team of practitioners within the 0-19 Childrens Public Health Service (CPHS).
The Team
Lead provides effective management of a caseload, deploying the appropriate resources
to meet the needs of families and ensures that practitioners in the team are
competent, confident and focussed on developing and maintaining professional expertise
and evidence-based practice.
The
Team Lead is accountable for the consistency and quality of individual and team
practice and performance in undertaking family health needs assessments and
analysis of strengths and risks, planning, implementing and reviewing
interventions that offer effective support.
The
Team Lead provides emotionally intelligent, reflective supervision to all
professionally qualified and unqualified practitioners within the team and is responsible
for supporting the health and wellbeing of all team members in line with their
duty of care.
The
Team Lead is responsible for developing and maintaining effective partnership
working with local agencies and groups in the team area, for example police, health
services, early help, childrens social care, schools, and voluntary/community
groups.
The
Team Lead supports the team to prepare for and contribute to successful CQC inspections.
Providing, promoting and leading excellent practice:
Shapes
and influences a multi-disciplinary team environment which enables excellent
practice by setting high standards and motivating others to do the same.
Leads
by example, showing integrity, creativity, resilience and clarity of purpose
with an holistic understanding of professional standards in a multi-disciplinary
team.
Develops,
supports, and works alongside the team to provide a full range of mandated
duties and the deliverance of the Healthy Child Programme.
Establishes,
develops, and delivers best practice collaborative working with other agencies and
professionals, including integrated working with key partners; providing advice
and consultancy to support other professionals and agencies to meet the welfare
and safeguarding needs of children and young people.
Is
accountable for ensuring the highest professional standards and professional conduct.
Seeks
feedback and routinely integrates the expertise and knowledge of children,
families, carers, and professionals into practice by promoting and evidencing the
meaningful participation of children, young people, and parents/carers in the
processes of key decision making.
Developing safe and caring practitioners:
Works
positively to promote a learning culture within the team, demonstrating a
commitment to CPD for all team members.
Learns
from experience; maintaining and, disseminating an excellent understanding of
current research; using evidence-based practice in assessment and planning, and
guidance, policy, and legislation to devise effective interventions, which are
most likely to support children, young people, and families.
Recognises,
respects, and values the expertise of practitioners and creates and maintains a
culture of professional curiosity.
Understands,
promotes, and integrates into practice Council policies on valuing diversity
and promoting equalities, achieving cultural competence across the team.
Provides
a safe, calm, and well-ordered environment for all staff, ensuring that
processes are fit for purpose and efficient.
Creates
an ethos within which team members are motivated and supported to be ambitious
on behalf of children and families.
Facilitates
critically reflective thinking and practice.
Offers
constructive advice and creative, strength-based solutions to difficulties.
Responds
positively to well-founded criticism from service users and other professionals
with a commitment to learn and to change.
Supports
pre- registered nursing students.
Supervises
and assesses SCPHN students.
Effective Teamwork:
Develops
and maintains a positive team culture and workplace that supports the health
and wellbeing of staff, improves standards for attendance at work; takes
appropriate management action when the attendance of individual staff falls
below the required standards.
Takes
appropriate management action to address serious and persistent shortfalls in
practice quality standards, taking a proportionate approach to supporting staff
to achieve the
required standards and differentiating between capability and conduct when
shortfalls persist.
Maximises
opportunities for children and families to make informed choices, inviting
challenge and debate and being accessible to children, families and
professionals.
Confident assessment and decision-making:
Creates
a culture of focused thinking which consistently explores a wide range of
contexts.
Helps
practitioners to make decisions based on observations and analyses, taking
account of the wishes and feelings of children and families.
Ensures
that practitioners are ambitious for children and families and that the
long-term and lifelong consequences of decisions are fully considered at all stages
of planning and review, and that relationship-based interventions provide
opportunities to test current hypotheses and dominant perspectives.
Supports
practitioners to always communicate clearly, honestly and respectfully the purpose
and content of a plan with confidence and competence in verbal and written communication.
This includes high quality, clear reports to professional meetings.
Ensures
records provide the full analysis underpinning decisions, making sure the
rationale for why and how decisions have been made is comprehensive and well
expressed.
Effective community public health nursing practice:
Ensures
practitioners adopt an approach to practice which is timely, evidenced based
and proportionate to identified risk and need. Supports practitioners
to keep accurate and up-to-date patient records on SystmOne.
Emotionally intelligent practice supervision:
Supports
practitioners by providing high quality, emotionally intelligent supervision, achieving
an appropriate balance between critical reflective practice and accountability
for tasks, standards, and targets.
Provides
advice, consultation, mentoring, supervision and appraisal
support to team members, in 1:1 and group settings to promote reflective thinking.
Improving performance:
Contributes
to and provides professional leadership of performance management and improvement.
Improves
the consistency and quality of practice in line with agreed standards through
developing a team learning and performance culture; effective management oversight;
and taking appropriate management action to support individuals who are unable
to achieve the required practice quality standards consistently.
Implements
Performance Management processes including reviewing and signing off the quality of work; undertaking case audits; investigating
shortfalls; contributing to service quality assurance planning.
Complies with the full range of the Councils employment
relations policies.
Fulfils all the requirements of registration with NMC.
Undertakes
any other duties required of the role and commensurate to the grade for the
role.
