Senior Nurse Transformation Lead

As our Senior Nurse Transformation Lead, you'll provide strategic and operational leadership to drive comprehensive transformation of Sutton's 0-19 community children's public health services. This interim role combines clinical nursing expertise with change management capability to deliver lasting improvements across Health Visiting and School Nursing services.

You'll establish evidence-based productivity standards and outcome measurement frameworks, standardise clinical pathways, and redesign service delivery models informed by data and client needs. A key focus will be preparing the service for CQC inspection, implementing robust clinical governance, and addressing gaps identified in mock inspections.

Working alongside practitioners, you'll model exemplary practice while performance managing service leadership and building sustainable operational structures that will outlast your tenure. You'll collaborate closely with the Public health team, Family Hubs, Children's Centres, schools, CAMHS, and children's social care to deliver integrated, family-centred services.

You will be a registered nurse with significant senior leadership experience in community public health services, ideally with direct experience of Health Visiting and/or School Nursing services. You'll have a track record of successful service transformation and change management, with the clinical credibility to challenge practice and build staff engagement.

Strong knowledge of national guidance and CQC regulatory requirements is essential, alongside experience implementing clinical governance frameworks and quality improvement processes. You'll be confident using data to drive decision-making, able to be professionally challenged and justifying decisions, and comfortable holding others to account through robust performance management.

Above all, you'll be passionate about giving children the best start in life and skilled at building partnerships across complex health and care systems.

The London Borough of Sutton (LBS) is committed to delivering high-quality children's public health services through the Sutton Health and Care Alliance (SHC). SHC is a partnership of key local health and care providers including The Council, St. Georges, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (GESH), South West London and St Georges MH Trust and the GP Federation (the PCNs).

The childrens community public health services forms an integral part of SHC. Around 70% of these services are hosted by the Council, in the Public Health division, while 30% are hosted by St. Georges, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group.

The components hosted by the council include Health Visiting (HV), School Nursing (SN) and Safeguarding There are close working relationships with the Councils Children Centres and Family Hubs which is fundamental to the future delivery of the Best Start in Life agenda.

The service requires additional direct clinical leadership with transformation expertise to drive necessary changes in practice, productivity, and outcomes measurement.

This interim role has been created to provide the clinical credibility, change management capability, and performance management authority required to transform service delivery and position the service for regulatory inspection readiness.

The London Borough of Sutton (LBS) is committed to delivering high-quality children's public health services through the Sutton Health and Care Alliance (SHC). SHC is a partnership of key local health and care providers including The Council, St. Georges, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (GESH), South West London and St Georges MH Trust and the GP Federation (the PCNs).

The childrens community public health services forms an integral part of SHC. Around 70% of these services are hosted by the Council, in the Public Health division, while 30% are hosted by St. Georges, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group.

The components hosted by the council include Health Visiting (HV), School Nursing (SN) and Safeguarding There are close working relationships with the Councils Children Centres and Family Hubs which is fundamental to the future delivery of the Best Start in Life agenda.

The service requires additional direct clinical leadership with transformation expertise to drive necessary changes in practice, productivity, and outcomes measurement.

This interim role has been created to provide the clinical credibility, change management capability, and performance management authority required to transform service delivery and position the service for regulatory inspection readiness.

The post holder will be employed and hosted by the London Borough of Sutton and will report directly to an LBS Consultant in Public Health Medicine and work closely with the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Operating Officer (Children) of Sutton Health and Care. They will be ultimately accountable to the Strategic Director of Public Health and Wellbeing.