Main area: Team Leader. Grade: Band 7. Contract: 12 months (Fixed term until 30 September 2027). Hours: 22.5 hours per week. Job ref: 448‑NCYP‑8082452.
- Part time
- Flexible working
Employer: East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridgeshire). Employer type: NHS Site. Location: Northfield House, Town North Walsham. Salary: £49,387 – £56,515 per annum, pro‑rata. Salary period: Yearly. Closing date: 22/06/2026 23:59. Interview date: 02/07/2026.
Healthy Child Service Team Leader
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking a highly motivated Team Leader to provide operational management and leadership to the Healthy Child Service 0‑19 team within the North & East Collaborative Locality on a secondment/fixed term (up until the end of September 2027).
Our aim is to ensure the children and young people living in all areas of Norfolk have every opportunity to achieve their full potential and to maximise the best outcomes for children, young people and their families.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to work closely with the Head of Locality and the collaborative leadership team to ensure the delivery of a high quality, efficient and effective service, meeting all objectives and key performance indicators.
You will also be expected to liaise with partner agencies and stakeholders to develop and implement robust processes between the collaborative locality team, the Single Point of Access, and partner organisations to ensure streamlined service delivery.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for the day-to-day development, management and leadership of the 0‑19 integrated teams and management and leadership of the teams’ working practices.
Commitment to supporting collaborative working between the HCS Single Point of Access and the localities.
Collaborative locality management and leadership; in line with NCYPS objectives, reflecting East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust corporate and strategic objectives.
Ensure that collaborative locality team working and staff management is undertaken in line with Trust values. Develop morale and motivation through effective personal leadership, ensuring views and decisions are communicated across the management and service structure.
Implement effective communication strategies to promote staff involvement.
In conjunction with the Head of Locality, clinical colleagues and other stakeholders implement new ways of working at a team level, taking appropriate advice from corporate colleagues. This might include skill-mix reviews and other staffing strategies.
Provide all staff with appropriate leadership, support and opportunities for training to undertake their jobs satisfactorily, including mandatory training.
Undertake agreed countywide leadership and support, develop and implement any specific projects as part of service design.
Ensure that all staff within the team are supported to use information systems for data collection, that deadlines are met for submitting data and that data is analysed to help allocate work and maximise productivity.
Accountable for locality profiles, as agreed with the Head of Locality; and to develop and manage day-to-day practice agreements.
Carry out all duties to the highest possible standard.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Management Degree or SCPHN or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Post graduate level business/management qualification at diploma level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
- Evidence of post‑qualification development
Experience
- Significant experience of managing a team to include team performance, quality, recruitment and staffing issues
- Change management and demonstrating successful change outcomes
- Complex staffing structures
- User involvement/participation supporting and advising complex areas of service provision, for example safeguarding.
Skills
- Leadership, coaching and management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex information to diverse groups
- Ability to lead by example and motivate teams
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
- Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people/vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances.
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
- Aware of the range of emotions in self and others
- Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
- Research and development
Equal Opportunities – We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Disability Confident Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification). All sites are Smoke Free.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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