School Nurse Team Lead

We are looking for a motivated practitioner with excellent communication skills, strong clinical leadership, and the ability to work independently whilst leading a team. If this is you, Barnet would love to hear from you. The Barnet 0-19 Service recently joined Whittington Health, which delivers community services across five London boroughs. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation and an expanding team. Come and join us on our journey as we develop our staff and enhance our offer to families. Barnet is a large, richly diverse and dynamic borough and as a member of the 0-19 Service, you will be part of a team that is integrated, friendly and supportive. We deliver a local needs-led service ensuring that children and their families are at the heart of what we do.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Team Leader within the Barnet School Nurse team. If you are an experienced school nurse, we would really like to hear from you. We are looking for experienced practitioners who want to work in and lead a school nurse team in Barnet. We are looking for warm and engaging candidates with strong leadership skills and a sound understanding of the Healthy Child Programme, and Safeguarding policy and practice. We can offer you a friendly supportive team to manage, regular supervision and extensive evidence-based training with skills practice to carry out your role.

Education, qualifications and experience:

• SCPHN School nurse professional qualification with entry to 3rd part of NMC register
• Educated to level 6 or 7 degree
• Management experience in a health setting
• Practice assessor/supervisor training

Skills and ability:

• Excellent communication skills: IT, written and oral
• Willingness to lead and support management of change
• Ability to set personal and team objectives, and manage time, priorities and stressful situations
• High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely

Knowledge and experience:

• Awareness of Equal Opportunities and Valuing Diversity
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Ability to apply research to practice
• Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to children and young people
• Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas
• Knowledge of infection control standards

Public sector equality duty statement:

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

Safeguarding Children and Adults:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan-London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct.

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.