Job Title

The Best Start in Life and Thriving in Life services in North Northamptonshire deliver the Healthy Child Programme in partnership with internal and external agencies to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. We are recruiting a Clinical Team Manager for the school-aged team, supporting staff working with children aged 5–19.

About the Role

The post holder will work within an integrated team led by a Service Manager, including Practice Teachers, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Community Nurses, Nursery Nurses, Healthy Child Practitioners, School Nurse Assistants, and wider support teams.

Children and families are central to our service. We value the child’s voice, involve families in decision-making, and aim to deliver a co-produced 0–19 service.

Using their SCPHN qualification, the post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership for a designated team in North or West Northamptonshire, ensuring effective systems, processes, and service delivery.

They will lead a community team, providing management support and role modelling to deliver high-quality services aligned with priorities, while building strong relationships with internal colleagues and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Foster innovation, maintain governance, implement policies, and keep the Service Manager informed on demand, performance, and pressures to support commissioning targets within budget.
• Responsible for maintaining staff performance, appraisal, supervision, and mandatory training compliance, ensuring targets are achieved within agreed timescales.
• Oversee the day-to-day running of the team, ensuring high-quality care, with appropriate training and support in place.
• Manage staff issues including sickness, performance, conduct, and complaints, seeking guidance from the Service Manager for complex cases.
• Provide effective supervision and support to the team and analyse complex clinical and operational matters such as risks, complaints, performance, and Datix reports.
• Line manage team members (Bands 3–6) and support the development, review, and implementation of processes to enhance service delivery and staff performance.
• Contribute to service projects as required and support the Service Manager in delivering transformation and change.
• Monitor service demand, pressures, and team performance, escalating key issues as needed.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, stakeholders, families, and referrers, and produce performance reports as required.
• Operate with a high level of autonomy, making decisions within agreed policies and frameworks, escalating only exceptional or strategic concerns.
• Undertake additional duties appropriate to the role.