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Health Visiting Team Lead 0-19 - Band 7 - Wandsworth
Are you looking to move to Band 7 Team Lead post, are you wanting to work in a highly successful Trust?
We are seeking a full-time, highly motivated and innovative Health Visitor to join us, working as a team lead in the borough of Wandsworth.
You will be working in a highly motivated and well-supported team and working to address the public health needs within our borough.
We have good links with the multi-disciplinary team and our stakeholders. Whilst you will be a Health Visiting team lead, our service ensures we fully embrace the 0-19 Years integrated service, working with all partner services.
At CLCH NHS Trust, we make sure our systems and processes meet all national and organisational standards, and we invest heavily in employing and keeping highly committed staff. We strive to deliver the best care and uphold our Trust’s values.
If you align with our Trust values and possess strong leadership skills to lead our skill mix teams to improve the health and well-being of our diverse families in Wandsworth, we invite you to apply for this role.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and professional leadership and management of the health visiting team, ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive and high-quality needs led service
To plan, organize and evaluate an innovative public health service, and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service
To provide a skilled, effective and evidence based public health service to clients in a variety of community settings.
To work in collaboration with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities
To collaborate with team colleagues in order to deliver the Quality Strategy objectives.
Plan, organise, evaluate and where appropriate, delegate to other members of the 0-19 team to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.
To develop leadership and management skills in others; supporting teams to be involved in planning, implementing and evaluating services
To promote effective teamwork within the wider multiagency team and with other health care and service providers to ensure seamless delivery of services for clients and communities.
To monitor the quality-of-service provision, reviewing key performance indicator reports and identifying areas for service and professional development and facilitate their implementation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
** Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Recent health visiting experience
- Experience of coordinating and leading multi-skilled teams
- Be able to co-ordinate health promotion initiatives in line with local and national health improvement targets
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working. Ability to facilitate joint working practices
- Experience of organising and managing own workload and that of others
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health assessments, planning and implementing evidence-based programmes of care
- Writing care plans
- Experience of developing the public health agenda
- Experience of teaching others and mentoring students
- Experience of receiving and delivering clinical supervision
Desirable
- Experience of innovative practice or project management
- Experience of line managing team members
- Experience of developing clinical standards and protocols.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of recent developments in public health nursing and health and social care legislation
- Current knowledge of safeguarding children guidelines and relevant legal aspects
- Knowledge of the public health agenda and the health care needs of individuals in the community
- Appropriate knowledge of clinical skills i.e., administration of immunisations
- Knowledge of quality issues, the audit process and clinical governance
- Knowledge of NMC Code
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
Education/Qualification
Essential
- Registered Nurse / registered Midwife with full and current UK NMC registration
- Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification - school nursing or health visiting BSc or diploma
- Evidence of continuing post-registration education and training
Desirable
- PHSE credited course
- • Evidence of other post registration education and training in specialist areas e.g. Infant feeding, SLT, allergies, epilepsy
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This advert is for Wandsworth Health Visiting Team Lead 0-19 with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Jun 2026.
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