Specialist Community Public Health School Nurse Team Leader

Job summary

Are you looking to develop your leadership skills within a 0-19 Public Health School Nursing service and gain experience of working more strategically in the planning and delivery of the service?

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Specialist Community Public Health School Nurse to join its well-established 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service in Telford and Wrekin as a Band 7 School Nurse Team Leader.

You will have full operational and line management responsibility for the school nursing team. This will include managing staff absence and service priorities, conducting appraisals, overseeing the budget, and monitoring team performance against key performance indicators (KPIs).

You will have excellent communication and relational skills, be solution focussed and strengthens based with a sound understanding of professional issues and a confidence in your critical decision-making ability.

The role is 37.5 per week on an all-year-round contract. You must be able to travel and having access to your own car is recommended.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver innovative; evidence-based School Nursing Services to a defined population and develop Public Health initiatives to meet the needs of the population served.
• To lead the implementation, development and evaluation of the School Nursing Service in line with the agreed service specification determined by Commissioners, within Telford and Wrekin, for all families with children aged 5-19 years (19-25 years SEND).
• Work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver a public health model of care, making a significant contribution to improving health, and reducing inequalities in access to services and in health outcomes.
• To be responsible for all issues relating to clinical practice together with the Service Manager within the School Nursing Teams.

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.