Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 407-COMMUNITY-8330010
- Employer
- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across Walsall
- Town
- Walsall
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Health Visitor Clinical Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
Walsall Manor Hospital is a busy district general hospital offering compete range of acute services. The Trust primarily serves the immediate population of Walsall with some patients requiring more specialised treatment at other, neighbouring Trusts. The Trust continues to invest in its facilities and services, supporting high-quality care for the communities it serves.
This role offers the opportunity to work within our integrated care model, contributing to high-quality services that help people remain independent in their own homes and communities.
We are committed to investing in our workforce and creating an environment where colleagues can learn, contribute and develop. Our new Urgent Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, demonstrates our ongoing investment in facilities and services.
As an employee, you’ll benefit from an attractive salary and comprehensive benefits package (detailed in Employer Description above), plus access to NHS pension arrangements and staff accommodation where available.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant, currently holding the Bronze Award, underlining our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community.
RESPECT – COMPASSION – TEAMWORK – PROFESSIONALISM
Job overview
The post holder will have day to day responsibility for the delivery of the health visiting team and pathway area, providing clinical leadership and operational management of a skill mix team (20% clinical, 80% operational management responsibility).
Reporting to and supporting the Professional Lead in ensuring that the service delivers on financial, activity, clinical quality (client experience, safety, clinical effectiveness) and key performance indicators. That systems and processes are implemented to ensure the delivery of safe, efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to clients utilising the evidence based Healthy Child Programme framework and in line with the delivery of the quality strategy and local locality priorities. The post holder will have responsibility for the development and delivery of a lead area.
The post is part of a wider leadership team in the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 and will work collaboratively within this team and provide leadership across the 0-19 pathways, covering for School Nursing Clinical Team Leads and other HCP 0-19 Leads
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical and professional leadership and line management to the clinical team.
Contribute and respond to the strategic over site and responsibilities of clinical/care activity of the designated locality area in relation to the locality community profile health needs as they arise.
Maintain an overall view of the team’s KPI’s and undertake clinical work as required to support achievement of these.
Support on clinical governance and quality improvement within the team, including completion of audit processes and ensure results are shared to support effective and competent practice.
Working for our organisation
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Direct working where required and demonstration of strong leadership and decision making to support team in prioritising work and achieving quality key performance indicators.
Facilitation of one-to-one meetings with direct reports bimonthly with a 50% restorative supervision function within the meeting.
Support as required of newly qualified/new starters on their caseloads to support by undertaking collaborative sessions and provide role model behaviours.
Develop leadership and management skills to promote Health Visitors to become rotational team co-coordinators.
Prepare teams to be involved in planning, implementing and evaluating services.
Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of mileage claims and turnaround documents. Have line management responsibilities for the identified team including authorising annual leave, monitoring sickness and absence, recruitment, performance management and disciplinary with support and advice from allocated Human Resource support partner.
Ensure teams make the most of resources efficiently to ensure spending is within financial envelope.
Work within Trust Policy and guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks via Safeguard and through escalation to the Professional Lead, Clinical Team leaders and at team level share lessons learnt.
Adopt a positive/innovative approach to practice in response to changing service needs and priorities.
Have an overview of the children known to be at risk and/or in need within the team. Support direct reports with debriefing following highly sensitive encounters with families and liaise with the named nurse for safeguarding, GP’s, significant partners to share information.
Contribute to the development and review of policy, protocols and guidelines within their area of lead responsibility.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Midwife
- Registered SCPHN Health Visitor
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate evidence as working as a health visitor
- Evidence of utilising evidenced based practice and appraising standards, providing clinical direction and support for staff.
- Detailed knowledge of health and social care policy relating to children’s services to include safeguarding.
- Ability to apply clinical governance framework to clinical practice
Key competencies
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates leadership skills and understanding of Professional responsibilities within the team and to provide operational management of team
- Ability to make sound clinical judgments and to work within a team and direct other team members to deliver high-quality client care
- Demonstrate ability to facilitate others to develop service provision.
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- The ability to make decisions which are timely, effective and appropriate
- Able to establish and maintain key relationships with colleagues and other disciplines both internally and externally.
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal with children, families and others.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tryphine Molineux
- Job title
- Deputy Professional Lead HCP 0-19
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07813546308
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