Job Overview
Can you demonstrate our values of Trust, Respect, Integrity and Compassion? Do you share in our ambition to create high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all?
Are you a highly skilled leader who is passionate about safe practice, has experience of clinical leadership within the 0-19 Service, passion for educating and training the workforce and a good understanding of clinical governance systems?
If yes then this opportunity to support the leadership and development of Public Health Nursing practice across Healthy Together may be for you.
You need to be an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCHPN) with Practice Education Qualification. Able to demonstrate leadership skills and work within a team to support the progress of our professional/clinical agenda across Healthy Together. There will be allocated areas of specialist practice dependent on individual skills and knowledge.
Please note that this role requires a full UK Driving Licence and access to a car during working hours.
Contact Details: Lyn Quinnell lyn.quinnell@nhs.net, Tel: 07920710291
Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)
The successful candidate will work alongside the Healthy Together Public Health Nursing Lead supporting the development of Public Health Nursing practice across Healthy Together services to enable continuous quality improvement in the service provision and support inter-professional practice development to meet client needs.
You will manage and take overall responsibility for care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice, and management. The successful applicant will also deliver evidence based high standards of clinical practice and be an educational resource to the professional leadership team and the wider service. You will also be responsible for managing a team with a range of skills, holding responsibility for appraisals, pre-registration mentoring, clinical supervision and safeguarding. You will also work in partnership with Local Authority colleagues, stake holders and Higher Educational Institutes.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Assessing the training needs of the Healthy Together workforce
* Assisting in workforce planning
* Building the confidence and competencies of the Healthy Together workforce to deliver the healthy child programme.
* Provide clinical leadership through sharing of best practice including the dissemination of the learning from incidents, complaints etc
* Working within the professional leadership team to develop a culture of learning and development
* Ensuring that the Standard Operating Guidance for Healthy Together remains evidenced and research based
* The safe and effective development of care pathways Supporting the development of the digital offer for Healthy Together
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.