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0-19 Professional Lead for Children & Family Services
The closing date is 31 May 2026
We are looking for a The Professional Lead in our 0-19 team in Children and Family Services. In this role you will provide professional clinical leadership to the 0-19 Public Health teams across HIOW, including Health Visiting, School Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership teams.
With a key professional leadership role within the services, the Professional Lead will provide professional clinical advice and guidance to ensure delivery of child focussed, high quality, safe, compassionate care.
This role will support the training and development of staff particularly pre-registration students, and student Specialist Community Public Health Nurses by providing guidance and support for Practice Teachers and Community Practice Assessor’s and mentors in partnership with Universities.
You will work with the Head of Quality Governance to establish and embed a robust quality and governance framework within the services to deliver clinical quality and safety standards across the services.
The role will work with the Head of Quality Governance to ensure clinical delivery of the contracted services is responsive to changes in National and local policy, with integrated care pathways delivered in partnership arrangements which support new models of care.
This role will support the implementation of all areas of the national and local Healthy Child Programme and High Impact Areas focussing on innovation and quality improvement.
Main duties of the job
To support delivery of the Quality and Safety agenda for Public Health Services across HIOWH supporting a culture of professionalism and constructive challenge to improve outcomes.
To provide professional leadership to the service leads and wider workforce to ensure delivery of quality standards and service within clinical teams.
To support the Head of Quality Governance and Service Managers to ensure services run efficiently identifying and managing risk taking action to mitigate those risks with particular focus on safeguarding children, patient and staff safety.
To provide a visible, accessible and professional presence, working clinically alongside staff and to be available to young people, their families and key stakeholders offering information, advice and support where required. Please see attached Job Description for further information.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone – if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registered healthcare professional Qualification as SCPHN, Health Visiting or School Nursing
- Relevant Master’s degree, equivalent or agreement to undertake
- Evidence of recent and on-going professional and personal development
- Car driver and ability to travel
Experience
- Strong clinical background and ability to work as a role model in clinical practice
- Significant staff management experience, including appraisal, recruitment and personal development
- Ability to delivery transformational programmes
- Experience of delivering significant workforce change or redesign using quality improvement methodology
- Developing and implementing strategic plans at service level, to able the achievement of divisional objectives
- Proven track record of meeting key operational targets
- Knowledge and understanding of the service improvement agenda, and skilled in tools and techniques for planning and facilitating service change
- Strong written and oral presentation skills, including the ability to author concise and persuasive reports and business cases
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£57,528 to £64,750 a year. Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
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