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Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse (PBEW Service)

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group View all jobs

North East England

Temporary

Psychologist

GBP 33,262 - 36,027 per year

Posted 9 day(s) ago

Reference: 2422372

Job summary

The GP Care Group is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse within the Waltham Forest Family Hubs Parent and Baby Emotional Wellbeing Service. In partnership with the Family Hubs and the local authority, we are providing a vital service for parents and babies, addressing mild to moderate perinatal and relationship difficulties.

The service has been re-commissioned for a fixed term until June 2027. It presents a unique opportunity for an individual interested in perinatal mental health to gain experience in this specialist role - whether through a secondment option from their current role or by stepping into a brand-new position.

If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of parents and babies and are excited about this incredible opportunity to be a part of a pilot service, we encourage you to apply for this role.

This Fixed Term Contract ends June 2027.

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.

Main duties of the job

Provides assessment and care, undertaking delegated duties and activities with limited or indirect supervision.
Promotes engagement with community resources, including Family Hubs, by offering tailored support with accessing community services.
Works directly with clients to deliver specific interventions to promote attuned parent/infant relationships.
Provides assessment of child health and development using ASQ tools in combination with direct observation and professional judgement.
Works directly with clients offering tailored advice and support for a range of child development needs.
To assist with delivery of therapeutic groups under the guidance of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapist.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted

13 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£33,262 to £36,027 a year Including Outer HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working

Reference number

E0136-26-0027

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key result areas

Provide practical and therapeutic support to strengthen early attachment, observing parent-infant interactions and escalating concerns appropriately.
Implement structured programmes (e.g., infant development guidance, parenting support, emotional wellbeing strategies) under the supervision of specialist clinicians.
Offer tailored guidance on infant care, routines, and development while supporting parents experiencing perinatal mental health challenges.
Work collaboratively with midwives, health visitors, mental health teams, and social care to ensure joined-up support and safe, consistent care pathways.
Maintain accurate records, monitor progress, and contribute to risk assessments by sharing observations with the wider clinical team.

Main duties and responsibilities

Provide interventions that strengthen the developing parent-infant relationship and promote healthy attachment.
Provide one-to-one support to parent/caregivers, including emotional well-being visits, practical guidance, and low-intensity interventions as directed by the multidisciplinary team.
To support Parents in the general management of baby care, demonstrating an understanding of how this may be hindered by the presence of mental illness
To work in collaborate with other professionals to deliver coordinated, evidence-based care for parents with mild - moderate perinatal mental illness.
Ensure the infants needs are identified, promoted, and met within the agreed care plan, including monitoring feeding, routines, development and general wellbeing.
Developing working and therapeutic relationships with women and their families and communicate effectively with them and the networks surrounding them.
Assist in planning and delivering group programmes for parents who are experiencing mild -moderate mental health needs
Keep clear, contemporaneous electronic records of assessments, interventions, and observations in line with service and safeguarding requirements.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key result areas

Provide practical and therapeutic support to strengthen early attachment, observing parent-infant interactions and escalating concerns appropriately.
Implement structured programmes (e.g., infant development guidance, parenting support, emotional wellbeing strategies) under the supervision of specialist clinicians.
Offer tailored guidance on infant care, routines, and development while supporting parents experiencing perinatal mental health challenges.
Work collaboratively with midwives, health visitors, mental health teams, and social care to ensure joined-up support and safe, consistent care pathways.
Maintain accurate records, monitor progress, and contribute to risk assessments by sharing observations with the wider clinical team.

Main duties and responsibilities

Provide interventions that strengthen the developing parent-infant relationship and promote healthy attachment.
Provide one-to-one support to parent/caregivers, including emotional well-being visits, practical guidance, and low-intensity interventions as directed by the multidisciplinary team.
To support Parents in the general management of baby care, demonstrating an understanding of how this may be hindered by the presence of mental illness
To work in collaborate with other professionals to deliver coordinated, evidence-based care for parents with mild - moderate perinatal mental illness.
Ensure the infants needs are identified, promoted, and met within the agreed care plan, including monitoring feeding, routines, development and general wellbeing.
Developing working and therapeutic relationships with women and their families and communicate effectively with them and the networks surrounding them.
Assist in planning and delivering group programmes for parents who are experiencing mild -moderate mental health needs
Keep clear, contemporaneous electronic records of assessments, interventions, and observations in line with service and safeguarding requirements.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Understanding of perinatal/infant mental health.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Ability to implement personal centred care/action plan in partnership with child, parent and family.

Qualifications

Essential

NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL).

Experience

Essential

Experience in working with children and families in a community setting and working with safeguarding children's concerns

Skills and Abilities

Essential

A sound understanding of child development, parenting.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Ability to deliver interventions to support the child and family through the perinatal period.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Understanding of perinatal/infant mental health.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Ability to implement personal centred care/action plan in partnership with child, parent and family.

Qualifications

Essential

NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL).

Experience

Essential

Experience in working with children and families in a community setting and working with safeguarding children's concerns

Skills and Abilities

Essential

A sound understanding of child development, parenting.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Ability to deliver interventions to support the child and family through the perinatal period.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Operational Lead - 0-19 Service Waltham Forest

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group View all jobs

North East England

Temporary

Radiographer

GBP 0 - 63,883 per year

Posted 23 day(s) ago

Reference: 2371739

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced and motivated leader to join our Waltham Forest 0-19 Service for 12 months. This could be an excellent secondment opportunity for someone ready to take the next step in their leadership career.

This is a key leadership role supporting the operational delivery of Health Visiting and School Nursing services across the borough. The successful candidate will bring substantial experience of leading children's public health services, managing large teams, delivering service improvement and driving performance against national and local priorities.

Applicants must demonstrate a strong understanding of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding responsibilities, Health Visiting and School Nursing national agendas, workforce management, quality assurance and service transformation. This is a role for an established leader who can quickly build credibility, provide operational oversight and contribute to the strategic development of the service from day one.

Waltham Forest is an exciting place to work. We deliver Universal and Early Intervention services through Health Visiting, School Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership teams, working closely with Family Hubs, Early Help, Early Education and wider partner agencies to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications.

Main duties of the job

Provide operational leadership and management across the Waltham Forest 0-19 Service, including Health Visiting and School Nursing.
Provide visible clinical and professional leadership, supporting staff to deliver safe, effective and high-quality services for children, young people and families.
Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring services are responsive to local population needs and national priorities.
Support the strategic development of the service in line with national policy, public health priorities, commissioning intentions and local health needs.
Lead service transformation, redesign and mobilisation projects, ensuring delivery of commissioned outcomes and contractual requirements.
Oversee service performance, quality assurance and governance arrangements, ensuring achievement of KPIs, quality standards and statutory requirements.
Ensure robust safeguarding practices are embedded across the service and provide leadership in relation to safeguarding responsibilities.
Lead and manage a large multidisciplinary workforce, including workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, attendance management and staff development.
Develop a positive, accountable and high-performing culture, supporting continuous improvement and excellent staff engagement.
Ensure effective allocation of resources and capacity management to meet service demand and contractual requirements.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care
Being a great place to work
Integrating primary and community care
Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted

29 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£63,883 a year depending on skills and experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

E0136-26-0025

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

To create a culture in which innovative ideas can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver support effectively.
To identify and participate in the tendering for new business opportunities.
To ensure effective performance management and professional and clinical leadership of the workforce
To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget.
To deliver robust financial management in line with Directorate and organisation targets, including Cost Improvement Programmes.
To ensure services meet care quality and performance management standards and are compliant with all regulatory requirements and standards.
To represent the Service and Trust at external meetings with stakeholders when required
To ensure the safeguarding agenda is firmly embedded in service delivery at all levels.
To participate in the evaluation of the services provided to children and young people in the Integrated Care Teams and actively promote service development including undertaking relevant audit and research.
To always act as a positive role model and advocate both for individual staff and the THGPCG.
To ensure that services are continually monitored, reviewed, and adapted to meet changing service user need and identified commissioning requirements.
To ensure the delivery of clinical and care quality standards and objectives
To be responsible for implementing service changes when required, ensuring effective implementation with measurable outcomes, and agreed timescales.
To ensure that systems are in place to monitor stakeholders views of services and ensure that service users, carers, relevant community organisations and other key stakeholders are involved in and influence key decisions on service development and continuous improvement.
To ensure that the service area contributes fully to the development of the business plan for the Directorate and assists in the setting of strategic objectives for the Service.
To ensure the service area is kept up to date with legislative and policy changes and developments.
Contribute to the establishment of new services that meet national and local requirements.
To facilitate the development of clinical guidelines, protocols, and patient-related policies in partnership with clinicians and other managers within the organisation to promote safe and effective patient care.
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations in the strategic planning of the services, identifying new business opportunities, writing business plans and service specifications as appropriate
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations and other senior managers in the development of strategy for children and young people within the organisation.
To deliver service improvement through the continuous development of integrated multi-disciplinary team working and care pathways.
To participate in local and national clinical networks to promote evidence based clinical developments which improve patient care.
To assume responsibility for further delegated areas of lead responsibility across childrens services as required by the Assistant Director or Integrated Care Director
To ensure the operational running of services through effective deployment of all resources, providing a framework for achieving best outcomes and objectives. This will include the development of protocols, local policies and procedures, liaison networks and managerial structures.
To act as an authorised signatory for budgets within agreed limits.
To manage a budget within the scheme of delegation and to the agreed accounting standards and procedures.
Effectively manage the delegated budgets within area of responsibility, assisting in the delivery of annual cost reduction/improvement plans identifying improved efficiencies communicating these to all managers as required.
To ensure that issues of equality and diversity are fully considered in service provision.
To ensure that buildings and sites are maintained to agreed standards and meet Health and Safety requirements.
To implement the Organisations information / data procedures and participate in the collection and reporting of statistical information.
To establish systems and practices within the service that deliver against key performance indicators and targets.
To ensure clinical services have robust risk management arrangements in line with organisational policy.
To develop a well-functioning service which develops credibility as a service provider.
To actively promote strong and effective leadership within a care quality structure that is built on the principles of open engagement, appreciative enquiry, and learning.
To develop and implement a leadership structure that safely devolves decision making close to the point of care delivery.
To ensure that effective performance management structures are in place and that all staff have structured supervision and an annual appraisal with personal development plan.
To ensure staff are compliant with their statutory and mandatory training and are provided with learning and development opportunities appropriate to their needs, within financial constraints.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To create a culture in which innovative ideas can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver support effectively.
To identify and participate in the tendering for new business opportunities.
To ensure effective performance management and professional and clinical leadership of the workforce
To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget.
To deliver robust financial management in line with Directorate and organisation targets, including Cost Improvement Programmes.
To ensure services meet care quality and performance management standards and are compliant with all regulatory requirements and standards.
To represent the Service and Trust at external meetings with stakeholders when required
To ensure the safeguarding agenda is firmly embedded in service delivery at all levels.
To participate in the evaluation of the services provided to children and young people in the Integrated Care Teams and actively promote service development including undertaking relevant audit and research.
To always act as a positive role model and advocate both for individual staff and the THGPCG.
To ensure that services are continually monitored, reviewed, and adapted to meet changing service user need and identified commissioning requirements.
To ensure the delivery of clinical and care quality standards and objectives
To be responsible for implementing service changes when required, ensuring effective implementation with measurable outcomes, and agreed timescales.
To ensure that systems are in place to monitor stakeholders views of services and ensure that service users, carers, relevant community organisations and other key stakeholders are involved in and influence key decisions on service development and continuous improvement.
To ensure that the service area contributes fully to the development of the business plan for the Directorate and assists in the setting of strategic objectives for the Service.
To ensure the service area is kept up to date with legislative and policy changes and developments.
Contribute to the establishment of new services that meet national and local requirements.
To facilitate the development of clinical guidelines, protocols, and patient-related policies in partnership with clinicians and other managers within the organisation to promote safe and effective patient care.
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations in the strategic planning of the services, identifying new business opportunities, writing business plans and service specifications as appropriate
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations and other senior managers in the development of strategy for children and young people within the organisation.
To deliver service improvement through the continuous development of integrated multi-disciplinary team working and care pathways.
To participate in local and national clinical networks to promote evidence based clinical developments which improve patient care.
To assume responsibility for further delegated areas of lead responsibility across childrens services as required by the Assistant Director or Integrated Care Director
To ensure the operational running of services through effective deployment of all resources, providing a framework for achieving best outcomes and objectives. This will include the development of protocols, local policies and procedures, liaison networks and managerial structures.
To act as an authorised signatory for budgets within agreed limits.
To manage a budget within the scheme of delegation and to the agreed accounting standards and procedures.
Effectively manage the delegated budgets within area of responsibility, assisting in the delivery of annual cost reduction/improvement plans identifying improved efficiencies communicating these to all managers as required.
To ensure that issues of equality and diversity are fully considered in service provision.
To ensure that buildings and sites are maintained to agreed standards and meet Health and Safety requirements.
To implement the Organisations information / data procedures and participate in the collection and reporting of statistical information.
To establish systems and practices within the service that deliver against key performance indicators and targets.
To ensure clinical services have robust risk management arrangements in line with organisational policy.
To develop a well-functioning service which develops credibility as a service provider.
To actively promote strong and effective leadership within a care quality structure that is built on the principles of open engagement, appreciative enquiry, and learning.
To develop and implement a leadership structure that safely devolves decision making close to the point of care delivery.
To ensure that effective performance management structures are in place and that all staff have structured supervision and an annual appraisal with personal development plan.
To ensure staff are compliant with their statutory and mandatory training and are provided with learning and development opportunities appropriate to their needs, within financial constraints.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Nurse) with current NMC registration.

Experience

Essential

Sustained experience in a management role within Health Visiting, School Nursing or an integrated 0-19 service.

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience of managing large teams, including performance, staffing, workforce planning and service delivery.

Knowledge

Essential

Comprehensive knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding, public health priorities and national 0-19 policy.

Other requirements

Essential

Proven track record of leading service transformation, quality improvement and delivery of contractual and performance targets.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Nurse) with current NMC registration.

Experience

Essential

Sustained experience in a management role within Health Visiting, School Nursing or an integrated 0-19 service.

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience of managing large teams, including performance, staffing, workforce planning and service delivery.

Knowledge

Essential

Comprehensive knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding, public health priorities and national 0-19 policy.

Other requirements

Essential

Proven track record of leading service transformation, quality improvement and delivery of contractual and performance targets.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Clinical Pharmacist

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group View all jobs

North East England

Permanent

Pharmacist

GBP 56,763 - 64,168 per year

Posted 27 day(s) ago

Reference: 2365661

Job summary

Be part of a New Wave of Health for the Isle of Dogs

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Pharmacist, to be part of a team working in primary care across the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets.

The Healthy Island Partnership has been in operation for over 16 years and during this time has been at the forefront of many important changes to the health and wellbeing of local people. Excellent clinical achievement matched by work in the community around self-health has been a hallmark of Network success.

As a Clinical Pharmacist you will be responsible for working with and assisting practice teams in providing and supporting high quality clinical care for acute and chronic problems. Implementing effective medicine management; identifying areas for improvement and initiating and managing change.

This is a 30-hour, permanent position for someone with a Pharmacy degree and minimum 5 years post -qualification experience. The successful candidate must be willing to enrol on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or submit evidence of exemption though past training and experience.

If you would like the challenge of bring your skills to working in a diverse, fast growing and dynamic community ----Then this could be the right role for you!

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.

Main duties of the job

Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.
Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.
Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.
To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines. by providing professional specialist medicines management.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted

25 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£56,763 to £64,168 a year pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, Term time hours

Reference number

E0136-26-0023

Job locations

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ

United Kingdom

Docklands Medical Centre

100 Spindrift Avenue

LONDON

E14 9WU

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.
Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.
Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.
To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines. by providing professional specialist medicines management

Job description

Job responsibilities

Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.
Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.
Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.
To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines. by providing professional specialist medicines management

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Independent prescriber.

Knowledge

Essential

An appreciation of the nature of primary care
prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register.

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

Independent prescriber.

Knowledge

Essential

An appreciation of the nature of primary care
prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register.

Experience

Essential

Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Operational Lead - 0-19 Service Waltham Forest

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group View all jobs

North East England

Temporary

Radiographer

GBP 0 - 63,883 per year

Posted 1 month(s) ago

Reference: 2322168

Job summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Operational Lead to join our ambitious 0-19 Service in Waltham Forest on a 12-month fixed-term basis.

This is a key senior leadership role supporting the operational delivery of Health Visiting and School Nursing services across the borough. The successful candidate will bring substantial experience of leading children's public health services, managing large teams, delivering service improvement and driving performance against national and local priorities.

Applicants must demonstrate a strong understanding of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding responsibilities, Health Visiting and School Nursing national agendas, workforce management, quality assurance and service transformation. This is a role for an established leader who can quickly build credibility, provide operational oversight and contribute to the strategic development of the service from day one.

Waltham Forest is an exciting place to work. We deliver Universal and Early Intervention services through Health Visiting, School Nursing and Family Nurse Partnership teams, working closely with Family Hubs, Early Help, Early Education and wider partner agencies to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.

Main duties of the job

Provide operational leadership and management across the Waltham Forest 0-19 Service, including Health Visiting and School Nursing.
Provide visible clinical and professional leadership, supporting staff to deliver safe, effective and high-quality services for children, young people and families.
Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, ensuring services are responsive to local population needs and national priorities.
Support the strategic development of the service in line with national policy, public health priorities, commissioning intentions and local health needs.
Lead service transformation, redesign and mobilisation projects, ensuring delivery of commissioned outcomes and contractual requirements.
Oversee service performance, quality assurance and governance arrangements, ensuring achievement of KPIs, quality standards and statutory requirements.
Ensure robust safeguarding practices are embedded across the service and provide leadership in relation to safeguarding responsibilities.
Lead and manage a large multidisciplinary workforce, including workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, attendance management and staff development.
Develop a positive, accountable and high-performing culture, supporting continuous improvement and excellent staff engagement.
Ensure effective allocation of resources and capacity management to meet service demand and contractual requirements.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care
Being a great place to work
Integrating primary and community care
Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Details

Date posted

04 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£63,883 a year depending on skills and experience

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Compressed hours

Reference number

E0136-26-0006

Job locations

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

To create a culture in which innovative ideas can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver support effectively.
To identify and participate in the tendering for new business opportunities.
To ensure effective performance management and professional and clinical leadership of the workforce
To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget.
To deliver robust financial management in line with Directorate and organisation targets, including Cost Improvement Programmes.
To ensure services meet care quality and performance management standards and are compliant with all regulatory requirements and standards.
To represent the Service and Trust at external meetings with stakeholders when required
To ensure the safeguarding agenda is firmly embedded in service delivery at all levels.
To participate in the evaluation of the services provided to children and young people in the Integrated Care Teams and actively promote service development including undertaking relevant audit and research.
To always act as a positive role model and advocate both for individual staff and the THGPCG.
To ensure that services are continually monitored, reviewed, and adapted to meet changing service user need and identified commissioning requirements.
To ensure the delivery of clinical and care quality standards and objectives
To be responsible for implementing service changes when required, ensuring effective implementation with measurable outcomes, and agreed timescales.
To ensure that systems are in place to monitor stakeholders views of services and ensure that service users, carers, relevant community organisations and other key stakeholders are involved in and influence key decisions on service development and continuous improvement.
To ensure that the service area contributes fully to the development of the business plan for the Directorate and assists in the setting of strategic objectives for the Service.
To ensure the service area is kept up to date with legislative and policy changes and developments.
Contribute to the establishment of new services that meet national and local requirements.
To facilitate the development of clinical guidelines, protocols, and patient-related policies in partnership with clinicians and other managers within the organisation to promote safe and effective patient care.
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations in the strategic planning of the services, identifying new business opportunities, writing business plans and service specifications as appropriate
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations and other senior managers in the development of strategy for children and young people within the organisation.
To deliver service improvement through the continuous development of integrated multi-disciplinary team working and care pathways.
To participate in local and national clinical networks to promote evidence based clinical developments which improve patient care.
To assume responsibility for further delegated areas of lead responsibility across childrens services as required by the Assistant Director or Integrated Care Director
To ensure the operational running of services through effective deployment of all resources, providing a framework for achieving best outcomes and objectives. This will include the development of protocols, local policies and procedures, liaison networks and managerial structures.
To act as an authorised signatory for budgets within agreed limits.
To manage a budget within the scheme of delegation and to the agreed accounting standards and procedures.
Effectively manage the delegated budgets within area of responsibility, assisting in the delivery of annual cost reduction/improvement plans identifying improved efficiencies communicating these to all managers as required.
To ensure that issues of equality and diversity are fully considered in service provision.
To ensure that buildings and sites are maintained to agreed standards and meet Health and Safety requirements.
To implement the Organisations information / data procedures and participate in the collection and reporting of statistical information.
To establish systems and practices within the service that deliver against key performance indicators and targets.
To ensure clinical services have robust risk management arrangements in line with organisational policy.
To develop a well-functioning service which develops credibility as a service provider.
To actively promote strong and effective leadership within a care quality structure that is built on the principles of open engagement, appreciative enquiry, and learning.
To develop and implement a leadership structure that safely devolves decision making close to the point of care delivery.
To ensure that effective performance management structures are in place and that all staff have structured supervision and an annual appraisal with personal development plan.
To ensure staff are compliant with their statutory and mandatory training and are provided with learning and development opportunities appropriate to their needs, within financial constraints.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To create a culture in which innovative ideas can flourish and provide vision and inspiration to enable staff to deliver support effectively.
To identify and participate in the tendering for new business opportunities.
To ensure effective performance management and professional and clinical leadership of the workforce
To ensure services are cost effective and delivered within budget.
To deliver robust financial management in line with Directorate and organisation targets, including Cost Improvement Programmes.
To ensure services meet care quality and performance management standards and are compliant with all regulatory requirements and standards.
To represent the Service and Trust at external meetings with stakeholders when required
To ensure the safeguarding agenda is firmly embedded in service delivery at all levels.
To participate in the evaluation of the services provided to children and young people in the Integrated Care Teams and actively promote service development including undertaking relevant audit and research.
To always act as a positive role model and advocate both for individual staff and the THGPCG.
To ensure that services are continually monitored, reviewed, and adapted to meet changing service user need and identified commissioning requirements.
To ensure the delivery of clinical and care quality standards and objectives
To be responsible for implementing service changes when required, ensuring effective implementation with measurable outcomes, and agreed timescales.
To ensure that systems are in place to monitor stakeholders views of services and ensure that service users, carers, relevant community organisations and other key stakeholders are involved in and influence key decisions on service development and continuous improvement.
To ensure that the service area contributes fully to the development of the business plan for the Directorate and assists in the setting of strategic objectives for the Service.
To ensure the service area is kept up to date with legislative and policy changes and developments.
Contribute to the establishment of new services that meet national and local requirements.
To facilitate the development of clinical guidelines, protocols, and patient-related policies in partnership with clinicians and other managers within the organisation to promote safe and effective patient care.
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations in the strategic planning of the services, identifying new business opportunities, writing business plans and service specifications as appropriate
To support the Head of Service, Clinical Director ad Director of Operations and other senior managers in the development of strategy for children and young people within the organisation.
To deliver service improvement through the continuous development of integrated multi-disciplinary team working and care pathways.
To participate in local and national clinical networks to promote evidence based clinical developments which improve patient care.
To assume responsibility for further delegated areas of lead responsibility across childrens services as required by the Assistant Director or Integrated Care Director
To ensure the operational running of services through effective deployment of all resources, providing a framework for achieving best outcomes and objectives. This will include the development of protocols, local policies and procedures, liaison networks and managerial structures.
To act as an authorised signatory for budgets within agreed limits.
To manage a budget within the scheme of delegation and to the agreed accounting standards and procedures.
Effectively manage the delegated budgets within area of responsibility, assisting in the delivery of annual cost reduction/improvement plans identifying improved efficiencies communicating these to all managers as required.
To ensure that issues of equality and diversity are fully considered in service provision.
To ensure that buildings and sites are maintained to agreed standards and meet Health and Safety requirements.
To implement the Organisations information / data procedures and participate in the collection and reporting of statistical information.
To establish systems and practices within the service that deliver against key performance indicators and targets.
To ensure clinical services have robust risk management arrangements in line with organisational policy.
To develop a well-functioning service which develops credibility as a service provider.
To actively promote strong and effective leadership within a care quality structure that is built on the principles of open engagement, appreciative enquiry, and learning.
To develop and implement a leadership structure that safely devolves decision making close to the point of care delivery.
To ensure that effective performance management structures are in place and that all staff have structured supervision and an annual appraisal with personal development plan.
To ensure staff are compliant with their statutory and mandatory training and are provided with learning and development opportunities appropriate to their needs, within financial constraints.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Nurse) with current NMC registration.

Experience

Essential

Substantial experience in a senior operational leadership role within a Health Visiting, School Nursing or integrated 0-19 service.

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience of managing large multidisciplinary teams, including performance, staffing, workforce planning and service delivery.

Knowledge

Essential

Comprehensive knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding, public health priorities and national 0-19 policy.

Other requirements

Essential

Proven track record of leading service transformation, quality improvement and delivery of contractual and performance targets.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered SCPHN (Health Visitor or School Nurse) with current NMC registration.

Experience

Essential

Substantial experience in a senior operational leadership role within a Health Visiting, School Nursing or integrated 0-19 service.

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience of managing large multidisciplinary teams, including performance, staffing, workforce planning and service delivery.

Knowledge

Essential

Comprehensive knowledge of the Healthy Child Programme, safeguarding, public health priorities and national 0-19 policy.

Other requirements

Essential

Proven track record of leading service transformation, quality improvement and delivery of contractual and performance targets.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Chingford Health Centre

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)