Health Visitor Team Leader

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services. We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

The purpose of Public Health is to improve health and social wellbeing through taking a population wide perspective for Public Health improvement, focusing on tackling inequalities. This is achieved through the responsibility of working with individuals/families/groups/partner agencies to identify health needs, raise awareness of health and social wellbeing and through enabling/empowering people to improve their own health. Within the Health Visiting function of this role the postholder will be accountable for a caseload, a clinical expert, provide Public Health expertise, and be a key member of the integrated Primary Care team and other multi-disciplinary groups as required. The team leader role within this post encompasses leadership and management of the practice attached/aligned community nursing team and other nursing staff groups, where applicable, linking into the management structure of the locality. To provide effective leadership, professional and operational management, expert clinical and professional supervision and support for Health Visitor/ Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) and staff within the HV team, for ex, caseload management, child protection support/advice and management, professional practice, child development, maternal health, infant feeding and infant mental health. As a Registered Health Visitor/SCPHN required to be accountable for the effective and efficient professional and operational management of the implementation and delivery of the full Universal Pathway by Health Visitors/Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN).

In This Key Role, You Will

Public Health/Health Visiting Process

• Assess and identify vulnerability within individual/family/community needs and, with them, plan, implement and evaluate programmes for health improvement which are evidence based and make full use of all resources using a multi disciplinary/multi-agency approach, in partnership where appropriate, to improve the health of the population through delivery of local Health Plan.
• Influence policies/plans affecting health and promote effective health improvement in Primary Care and local communities.

Professional

• Be fully compliant with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and other relevant guidance documents, which support and maintain standards of professional practice for nurses and midwives.
• Effectively deliver Health Visiting practice and duties as detailed in relevant NHS Lanarkshire/local