About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
As our Senior Nurse Transformation Lead, you'll provide strategic and operational leadership to drive comprehensive transformation of Sutton's 0-19 community children's public health services. This interim role combines clinical nursing expertise with change management capability to deliver lasting improvements across Health Visiting and School Nursing services.
You'll establish evidence-based productivity standards and outcome measurement frameworks, standardise clinical pathways, and redesign service delivery models informed by data and client needs. A key focus will be preparing the service for CQC inspection, implementing robust clinical governance, and addressing gaps identified in mock inspections.
Working alongside practitioners, you'll model exemplary practice while performance managing service leadership and building sustainable operational structures that will outlast your tenure. You'll collaborate closely with the Public health team, Family Hubs, Children's Centres, schools, CAMHS, and children's social care to deliver integrated, family-centred services.
You will be a registered nurse with significant senior leadership experience in community public health services, ideally with direct experience of Health Visiting and/or School Nursing services. You'll have a track record of successful service transformation and change management, with the clinical credibility to challenge practice and build staff engagement.
Strong knowledge of national guidance and CQC regulatory requirements is essential, alongside experience implementing clinical governance frameworks and quality improvement processes. You'll be confident using data to drive decision-making, able to be professionally challenged and justifying decisions, and comfortable holding others to account through robust performance management.
Above all, you'll be passionate about giving children the best start in life and skilled at building partnerships across complex health and care systems.
About Us
The London Borough of Sutton (LBS) is committed to delivering high-quality children's public health services through the Sutton Health and Care Alliance (SHC). SHC is a partnership of key local health and care providers including The Council, St. George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (GESH), South West London and St Georges MH Trust and the GP Federation (the PCNs).
The children’s community public health services forms an integral part of SHC. Around 70% of these services are hosted by the Council, in the Public Health division, while 30% are hosted by St. George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group.
The components hosted by the council include Health Visiting (HV), School Nursing (SN) and Safeguarding There are close working relationships with the Council’s Children Centres and Family Hubs which is fundamental to the future delivery of the Best Start in Life agenda.
The service requires additional direct clinical leadership with transformation expertise to drive necessary changes in practice, productivity, and outcomes measurement.This interim role has been created to provide the clinical credibility, change management capability, and performance management authority required to transform service delivery and position the service for regulatory inspection readiness.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
1. A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-31 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
2. Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
3. Two volunteering days per year
4. Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
5. Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
6. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
7. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
8. Interest free season ticket loans
9. Local Government Pension Scheme
10. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
11. Zip car scheme
12. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support