School Nursing Team Leader

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population. We have three strategic objectives:

• People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
• Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
• Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.

We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.

Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.

Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.

Job overview: To encourage, support and promote integrated working with all agencies within Sandwell to meet the needs of the Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) within the Borough. Develop positive partnerships at all levels. To promote excellence in practice and act as a role model in Clinical Leadership for the integrated CYPF service, and ensure roles are clearly integrated to the Clinical Governance agenda within the Trust. Empower staff to be creative and innovative in practice with organisational support. To work cohesively with staff to address and prioritise the operational objectives and ensure response is aligned to expectations outlined. To work alongside the Clinical Lead to redesign and develop community health services for CYPF in accordance with national and local public health agenda. To have responsibility for the operational line management of the School Nursing team.

Main duties of the job: To support an innovative and driven team of public health nurses to make a difference in the lives of the children young people and families of Sandwell. To manage and support staff across all roles in delivering the healthy child programme and developing innovative ways in partnership in reaching the population of Sandwell using compassion and community-based approaches. To play a key role in supporting staff health and wellbeing as well as developing staff in their ambitions and career development.

Working for our organisation: Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality. Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens next year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) degree, Evidence of continued professional development, NMC registered Nurse, Teaching qualification e.g. 998/ SLAIP or equivalent, Community working, Full driving licence, Access to a vehicle that can be utilised during the working day.
• Experience: Extensive current experience in School Health Nursing at SCPHN level, Extensive experience of strategic interagency partnership working, Evidence of experience working with children, young people and families, Evidence of leading/managing innovation/change in clinical practice, Evidence of incorporating Public Health priorities into practice, Experience of self-management and managing others, Awareness of current legislation relating to Safeguarding and how it relates to practice, Awareness of National & Local policies around public health, Experience of clinical supervision and as a facilitator for supervision (or willingness to undertake), Experience of undertaking research.

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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.