Southend On Sea Borough Council

Professional Lead - Public Health

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Job summary

Southend-On-Sea is looking to recruit a Professional Lead into the Children, Young People and Families Public Health Team.

The Professional Lead will be responsible for leading and developing the Healthy Child Programme workforce across Southend ensuring that services are safe, effective, evidenced based and of a high quality.

They will act as an outstanding role model for delivering client centred care, emphasising the importance of performance, professionalism, appearance, and accountability in caring for self and others.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for leading the contribution and engagement of Children’s Public Health Services in the development of an Integrated Children’s Workforce in partnership with CCGs, Local Authority and third sector organisations within Southend.

The Professional Lead will be responsible for managing and ensuring of Children’s 0-19 Public Health Services meet key organisational targets and deliver against local, including the Southend 2050 Ambition, local NHS priorities (MSE’s HCP 5-yr Strategy) and national priorities.

They will be responsible for ensuring that Children’s Public Health Services are continually developing and evaluating services to ensure that they are responsive to any changing needs and demands.

They will ensure the service has a clear focus on the protection of children and young people and the public health priorities for children, young people and families.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the wider SBC operational leadership to include Education, Children’s Social care, Early Help and Children Centres to ensure all children’s services are working together to deliver integrated locality-based services to support children and families

About us

Southend is diverse, a busy University town with an attractive seafront, public parks and leisure activities, competitive house pricing and excellent transport links. Accessible from both Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street stations. It offers traditional seaside living that makes it a fantastic place to live and work.

Working for Southend on Sea Borough Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work life balance. As a Unitary Authority we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.

**Staff moving from NHS to Local Authority can maintain their NHS pension. Southend Borough Council also reimburse professional registration fees and offer staff iHV corporate membership.**

Date posted

15 March 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£46,662 to £51,730 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

F0033-22-0197

Job locations

Southend-on-sea Borough Council

Victoria Avenue

Southend-on-sea

SS1 9SB

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Professional Lead will be able to communicate sensitive and key strategic messages acting as a conduit for information between senior managers, other children’s teams, and front-line staff.

Within a defined locality, they will ensure the children’s universal services are delivered efficiently and effectively, delivered to agreed MPR’s, and meet national standards whilst being responsive to local needs and making use of the JSNA and other locality profiles.

Support the Clinical Lead by providing operational leadership of the interagency agenda with relevant partners and the public to:

· Develop and implement care pathways.

· Develop and implement agreed strategies.

· Identify service developments!

· Ensure that services meet identified need and choice.

Liaise and work in partnership with other agencies, statutory and voluntary, promoting an integrated approach to services available to children, young people and families, supporting staff operationally to embed service delivery within children’s centres, schools and other settings as appropriate. This may involve managing and handling difficult and sensitive discussions with staff and other areas of the wider children’s system to gain resources and commitment.

Develop matrix working across the wider Public Health Service Portfolio to ensure connectivity and effectiveness of the Healthy Child Programme Offer within Southend.

Professional Responsibilities (Health Visiting)

Provide professional leadership and management for the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme workforce across Southend.

Have first line operational management responsibility for the:

Public Health Team Leaders
Specialist Health Visitors
Health Liaison Nurses within MASH/MARAT

To be accountable and responsible for the professional leadership of the health visiting work force ensuring there are robust communications pathways in place and that staff are aware of relevant professional issues.

To work alongside the team leaders to ensure that all nursing staff maintain clinical competence and professional registration and work within professional codes of conduct and local policies and procedures.

To have oversight of the NMC professional register to ensure that all nurse registrants are compliant to NMC registration requirements.

Responsible for the day-to-day management and control of the services including the management of staff, performance, and budgetary constraints.

Ensure management of budget within agreed limits and respond effectively to in-year changes.

To establish and maintain an effective network of partner agencies with regards

to the delivery of The Healthy Child Programme 0 – 19 years across the Council, voluntary groups and individuals working in the field of Children’s Services on

a national, regional and local level.

To ensure effective transfer and communication pathways in place with maternity

Providers across the Mid and South Essex’s Health Care Partnership.

Contribute to the service design framework and evaluation processes for

innovative models of delivery within the A Better Start Partnership.

Provide operational oversight of the A Better Start Southend contracts delivered

by the service and contribute to the quarterly monitoring meetings.

Develop and implement processes that will monitor and evaluate programmes of care, including quality of provision, value for money and outcome measures.

Have overall responsibility for key priority areas including breastfeeding and infant nutrition, transition to parenthood, integrated 2-year review, immunisation, teenage pregnancy pathway, and improving health inequality.

In conjunction with the Clinical Lead, develop service plans to meet agreed strategic direction and deliver the wider corporate objectives.

Ensure that the service can demonstrate it is compliant with CQC standards of practice through robust maintenance of Key Line of enquiry evidence portfolio.

Contribute to the development of information systems such as SystmOne to ensure that qualitative and quantitative measures of the service focus on the development of outcome measures.

Gather data to enable monitoring of performance against agreed key indicators and develop remedial action plans as required.

Be accountable for variances in performance and be able to identify and articulate rationale identifying remedial action plans as required.

Be aware of opportunities for service development.

Work with service users to ensure service(s) are meeting the needs of users and are improved in line with comments and concerns raised.

Work with the Operational Performance & Intelligence Team to compile monthly service reports and review caseload analysis to ensure that service delivery is responsive to population needs, demographic trends and safe staffing.

Ensure resources are utilised effectively, through appropriate skill mix, staff education and development and workforce planning.

Contribute to the outcomes identified in the 4-5-6 model including the High Impact Areas

Participate in and lead aspects of service reviews to meet changing national directives and local need.