Service Lead - Healthy Child Programme

This will be an exciting, fulfilling and challenging role. We are looking for someone with existing Children's senior experience of leading Health Visiting, School Nursing & Family Nurse partnership services as this opportunity is for an interim period of 11 months.
The role will be critical to improving and maintaining performance, enhancing patient experience, improving clinical outcomes, and sustaining safe, efficient, and affordable services.
We are looking for a candidate with:
+ a proven track record at senior Children's operational management level
+ the skills to negotiate and influence, embracing partnerships across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough geographical system
+ the ability to engage effectively with partners, stakeholders, and the people we serve
+ a track record of delivering against targets and performance management, The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) & Children in Care (CiC) Lead's role is to:
+ Lead the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP) across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and the Cambridgeshire Children in Care (CiC) team ensuring that high quality care is delivered to local residents
+ To lead the 0-19 HCP as one service jointly across both community NHS organisations - Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (CCS) and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
+ Deliver on expectations within the HCP contracts for the service, including making sure that all Key Performance Indicators are met, and related income is earned
+ Support and provide transformational leadership across the Healthy Child Programme & Children in care team, acting as an agent for change and pioneering the changes that need to happen in order to improve service delivery and outcomes for children and young people. This will involve working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
+ Deliver against all of the key local and national targets and be accountable for achieving high quality care and delivering against the budget targets for the service through excellent management and leadership
+ The role entails being the local external face of the HCP & CiC across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The post holder will develop and maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders

Working for our organisation
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development., Ensure the Healthy Child Programme (HCP) in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and the Cambridgeshire Children in Care (CiC) team delivers high quality, safe and effective services.
Ensure that the HCP continues to develop and innovate with a focus on meeting children and young peoples' needs and improved outcomes This should be achieved through effective leadership.
Support the development of an integrated 0-19 Healthy Child Programme across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and take a leadership role for development of areas of work.
Support the development of the Children and Young People's annual plan ensuring it contributes to the delivery of objectives and meets all of the local and national targets.
Ensure robust financial governance and the achievement of financial targets and be responsible for the overall financial performance of the HCP in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough and the CiC team in Cambridgeshire.
Provide effective leadership for the HCP and CiC teams, ensuring all staff are supported to undertake their roles and responsibilities, demonstrate an understanding of the whole service and support staff to be curious and excited by its possibilities.
Develop and sustain excellent working relationships with key partners, individuals, and stakeholder groups across the geography. The post holder will promote the Trusts and its services to organisations and agencies.
Promote the involvement of children, young people and their parents//carers in service development and delivery.
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UK Registration
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Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.