Job Introduction
As a Surrey Special School Nursing Partnership Lead you will be part of our valued team in our specialist school nursing Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions + 5% Fringe
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Special School Nursing Partnership Lead to drive the transformation of Surrey’s countywide Special School Nursing Service. This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for overseeing the transition from a traditional school-based model to an innovative Hub and Spoke service model, ensuring delivery meets contractual, commissioning and population health needs across Surrey.
Working closely with key stakeholders including Surrey County Council, the Integrated Care Board (ICB), special schools, families and clinical teams, you will lead the planning, implementation and governance of the redesign programme. You will play a vital role in ensuring a smooth transition, maintaining service quality, engaging the workforce, managing risks and delivering agreed outcomes that improve services for children and young people with additional needs.
This role is fixed term until July 2027.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of Surrey's Special School Nursing Service redesign, transitioning to a new Hub and Spoke model.
- Manage programme delivery, ensuring milestones, quality standards, contractual requirements and outcomes are achieved.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across health, education and social care, including Surrey County Council, Surrey Sussex ICB, special schools and families.
- Lead workforce engagement and change management activities, supporting staff through service transformation.
- Review and redesign pathways, processes and ways of working to improve accessibility, efficiency and service user experience.
- Oversee programme governance, risk management and reporting, ensuring safe and effective implementation.
- Use data, insight and quality improvement methodologies to drive decision-making and measure programme benefits.
- Produce reports and updates for senior leaders, commissioners and partner organisations, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout delivery.
- Support effective use of resources and identify opportunities to improve service delivery and outcomes for children and young people.
Person Specification
Essential
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in healthcare, nursing, education, service improvement, project management or a related field.
• Evidence of leading complex service redesign, change or improvement programmes.
• Experience of working across health, education and social care systems.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and partnership working skills.
• Experience of workforce planning, engagement and organisational change.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to analyse complex information and present clear recommendations.
• Experience of programme governance, risk management and reporting.
• Knowledge of SEND services and children's community services.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.
Desirable
• Project or programme management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, APM).
• Quality improvement qualification or experience.
• Knowledge of Surrey's health and care system.
• Experience of implementing Hub and Spoke service models.
• Registered healthcare professional qualification.
If you require any further information please contact charlie.taylor@hcrgcaregroup.com
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, 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. 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 applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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