Job Introduction
As a Health Family Team Leader, you’ll be working as part of The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service and leading an operational team of integrated professionals to deliver a high quality service focused on outcomes, having been commissioned by Essex County Council.
The service, which is provided by HCRG Care Group in partnership with Barnardo’s, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, but staff are also able to reach children and families in the community, whether in a local Family Hub, play area or in a family’s front room. This flexible and innovative way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.
The team you will manage with offer a broad range of support:
- Health Visiting: Healthy Child programme offer
- School Nursing: Healthy Child programme offer
- Family Hubs (previously known as Children Centres)
- Family Health advice and support
- Resilience and Development:
- Parenting and School Readiness interventions
- Support for ages 0-19:
Main Responsibility
As a Healthy Family Team Leader, you will provide overall operational management and strategic leadership of the integrated care services within the nominated teams for the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (Pre-birth to 19). The post holder will work with the Head of Service to ensure effective integration and support to deliver high quality and effective care.
- The post holder will be responsible for managing a delegated team of staff.
- To take responsibility for the leadership, and the reporting of relevant contractual requirements, internal and external KPI’s and to raise and act on non-compliance as appropriate
- To develop effective working relationships with the main sub-contractors Barnardo’s and to include the wider community including Education, GPs and other health, social care and voluntary sector professionals operating within the area supported by the local integrated care team
- To participate in continued maintenance of high standards of clinical/care practice within teams
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a Clinical Registered Professional who is Educated to degree level and Membership of a relevant professional body for SCPHN Health Visitor, School Nursing. This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking for their next career step and is passionate about the support and care families, children and Young people receive.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research, and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
You will receive Agenda for Change Band 7 salary and terms and conditions – including an NHS pension
As well as AFC terms and conditions, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- AFC Holiday entitlement depending on years of service + Bank Holidays
- My Wellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges, and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Leisure Vouchers
- We are pleased to offer access to Wage stream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100% of our services being rated overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.
From around 500 locations across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.
HCRG Care Group is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our services.
HCRG Care Group, its subsidiary companies and the LLPs are part of the HCRG Care Group and provide publicly funded health and social care services. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide: * proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass (either electronically or via the PDF) * A signed copy of the temporary medical exemption form. Further details about the legislation can be found on the government website.
