Job summary
- Main area
- Healthy Child Programme
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 150-KB1979-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pound Hill Child and Family Centre
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Lead, Healthy Child Programme 0-5
Band 7
Job overview
Healthy Child Programme , West Sussex 0-5 Team Lead post Crawley.
We have an opportunity for a SCPHN (Health Visitor) to Join our HCP Band 7 team leads to continue to develop the HCP in West Sussex
The post will be based in Crawley and is full time.
There is one Hub for the Healthy Child Programme teams in Crawley and you would have the opportunity to work alongside the experienced Team Lead in that hub.
If you are ready for a new challenge and would like to be a part of our team, this is the opportunity for you. These posts are key to the continued delivery of a high quality service, whilst providing a career development pathway. The post requires leadership, flexibility, tenacity and the development of relationships with our partner agencies
Main duties of the job
0-5 Healthy Child Programme Team Lead - Full Time
We are seeking a Health Visitor Team Lead to manage a 0-5 Healthy Child Programme Hub in Crawley.
We have an exciting opportunity for dynamic SCPHN - Health Visitor who wishes to maintain clinical expertise whilst developing management and supervision skills and leading a 0-5 HCP hub in line with the Healthy Child Programme, including local and national priorities.
The 0-5 Healthy Child Programme team includes Health Visitors, Staff Nurses, Community Nursery Nurses and administrative staff.
The Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Healthy Child Programme has Gold UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation and our Health Visitors are trained in the use of the scheme's promotional guides.
You will receive a full induction and have a peer mentor . You will be supported by Deputy Operational and Deputy Nursing Heads of Service with regular clinical (including safeguarding) and operational supervision. You will be working alongside the existing Hub Team Lead and the wider team lead colleagues. There are weekly Team Lead meetings and integrated meetings with colleagues from the local authority.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work alongside another team lead to manage the Crawley Hub. You will work closely with all the team leads to develop ideas, be part of working parties and regular meetings.
You will have 4-6 weekly Supervision with the Dep. Op and Dep Nursing Heads of Service. There is regular team lead peer supervision groups and a robust induction and support.
If you are ready for a new challenge and would like to be a part of our team, this is the opportunity for you. These posts are key to the continued delivery of a high quality service, whilst providing a career development pathway. The post requires leadership, flexibility, tenacity and the development of relationships with our partner agencies
For full details please see the attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or midwife
- Registered Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (HV)
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of range of clinical competencies approrpiate to role
- Evidence of training and professional development in safegaurding practice at masters level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Management / leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Relevent post graduate qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working ina team environment and holding and managing a clinical caseload
- Experience of safeguarding children casework and identifying and managing risk
- Experience of supervising others
- Willingness to develop leadership and managerial skills
Desirable criteria
- Significant post SCPHN qualification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- IT skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding children polices & procedures
- Knowldge of local and national polices informing health & social care
- Demonstrates leadership in practice
- Demonstrates evidence based practice
- Knowldge of clinical governance, audit, supervsion and professional codes of conduct
- Values and beliefs of HCP
- Concepts of integrated working
- Able to have difficult or challenging conversations
- Work flexibly across specified area
- Lifelong learning and development
- Understanding of self and limitations
- Awareness of professional responsibiliies and boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Previous managerial/leadership role
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
- Paula Battersby
- Job title
- HCP 0-5 Team lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 242004
- Additional information
Claire Auston HCP 0-5 Team lead
01273 242004
Emma Vaughan Dep Operational Head of Service
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