11 Oct
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford
Job description
Job overview
Do you have a School Nursing and / or Health Visiting qualification (SCPHN) and relevant experience?
Do you want to lead a specialist area of interest within the 0-19 service?
Following the successful tender for the new CYP 0-19yrs Public Health Service, we have an opportunity to appoint a Locality Team Leader to be part of forming the new CYP 0-19 Public Health Service, bringing together Health Visiting, School Health Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership.
You will be working alongside members of the leadership team to implement and embed the new service model, across the county, to provide an effective, safe and comprehensive service to Oxfordshire children and families.
We have 1 locality team leader post available in the newly formed City North locality. This post will be fixed term until December 2025, with the potential to become permanent.
Please note this role is internal only and therefore only available to current employees of Oxford Health
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the management, coordination, and clinical leadership of a locality within the countywide 0-19 CYP Public Health Service.
You will be working with the leadership team to improve health outcomes, reduce inequalities, and safeguard children and young people in Oxfordshire through the provision of an evidenced based and needs led service.
Acting as a role model for practitioners, demonstrating a high level of professional behaviours, incorporating the core values and strategy of the Trust you will ensure optimum performance within a defined locality in the following key areas :
- service quality
- controls assurance
- clinical practice
- clinical governance
- compliance with all statutory regulations.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive : Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team
Our values are : Caring, safe and excellent
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include :
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will need to have a thorough understanding of the commissioning priorities, the Service Specification, Trust Strategy, Department of Health priorities,
Care Quality Care requirements and other local & national documents.
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full role responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- SCPHN course Health Visiting / School Nursing
- Evidence of Professional development
Desirable criteria
Educated to Masters Level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with children, young people and families
- Community experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi disciplinary working
- Implementation of change
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with service users, stakeholders and practitioners
- Caring and compassionate attitude
Desirable criteria
- Courage to speak up when concerned and challenge and be challenged
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair,
just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential.
All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research.
Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site.
The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
▶️ Locality Team Leader/Specialist Lead Practitioner
🖊️ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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