Employer Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bicentennial Building Town Chichester Salary £47,810 - £54,710 £41,658 - £47,672 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/08/2025 23:59
Team Lead, Healthy Child Programme 0-5
Band 7
Job overview
Healthy Child Programme, West Sussex 0-5 Team Lead post (Chichester)
We have an opportunity for a SCPHN (Health Visitor) to Join our HCP Band 7 team leads to continue to develop the HCP in West Sussex
The post will be based in Chichester and is part time.
There is one Healthy Child Programme Hub in Chichester, which is part of the wider West Sussex HCP service.
You will be working alongside an experienced team lead within the same hub.
If you are ready for a new challenge and would like to be a part of our team, this is the opportunity for you. These posts are key to the continued delivery of a high quality service, whilst providing a career development pathway. The post requires leadership, flexibility, tenacity and the development of relationships with our partner agencies
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Health Visitor Team Lead to manage a 0-5 Healthy Child Programme Hub in Chichester.
We have an exciting opportunity for dynamic SCPHN - Health Visitor who wishes to maintain clinical expertise whilst developing management and supervision skills and leading a 0-5 HCP hub in line with the Healthy Child Programme, including local and national priorities.
The 0-5 Healthy Child Programme team includes Health Visitors, Staff Nurses, Community Nursery Nurses and administrative staff.
The Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Healthy Child Programme has Gold UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation and our Health Visitors are trained in the use of the scheme's promotional guides.
You will receive a full induction and have a peer mentor. You will be supported by the Deputy Nursing and Deputy Operational Heads of Service, the existing Hub team lead and the wider team lead colleagues from the HCP hubs across the county. There are weekly Team Lead meetings and integrated meetings with colleagues from the local authority.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work alongside another team lead to manage the Chichester Hub. You will work closely with all the team leads to develop ideas, be part of working parties and regular meetings.
You will have regular Clinical and Safeguarding Supervision with the Deputy Head of Nursing, and receive line management from the Deputy Operational head of Service. There is regular team lead peer supervision groups and a robust induction and support.
If you are ready for a new challenge and would like to be a part of our team, this is the opportunity for you. These posts are key to the continued delivery of a high quality service, whilst providing a career development pathway. The post requires leadership, flexibility, tenacity and the development of relationships with our partner agencies
For full details please see the attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Person specification
Qualification
* Registered Nurse or midwife
* Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (HV)
* Educated to degree level
* Evidence of range of clinical competencies approrpiate to role
* Evidence of training and professional development in safegaurding practice at masters level or equivalent
* Management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Experience working ina team environment and holding and managing a clinical caseload
* Experience of safeguarding children casework and identifying and managing risk
* Experience of supervising others
* Willingness to develop leadership and managerial skills
* Minimum of 2 years post SCPHN qualification
Skills and Knowledge
* Knowledge of safeguarding children polices & procedures
* Knowldge of local and national polices informing health & social care
* Demonstrates leadership in practice
* Demonstrates evidence based practice
* Knowldge of clinical governance, audit, supervsion and professional codes of conduct
* Values and beliefs of HCP
* Concepts of integrated working
* Able to have difficult or challenging conversations
* Work flexibly across specified area
* Lifelong learning and development
* Understanding of self and limitations
* Awareness of professional responsibiliies and boundaries
* Previous managerial/leadership role
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Suzy Portway Job title HCP Clinical Service Manager Email address suzy.portway@nhs.net Telephone number 07780224204 Additional information
Madeleine PartridgeHCP Team Lead - Worthing East
07748334921
madeleine.partridge@nhs.net
Emma Vaughan Dep. Operational Head of Service - HCP
emma.vaughan3@nhs.net
07471029803
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