Senior Nurse Transformation Lead

About the Borough

The London Borough of Sutton is situated less than 30 minutes by train from Central London, with direct connections to London Victoria and London Bridge. Found in zone 5 with good transport links in and out of London, Sutton boasts award winning parks and open spaces, low crime rates, affordable housing and great schools. As well as high levels of resident engagement and satisfaction, providing quality services and success in addressing our financial challenges, whilst involving residents in key issues and high street changes.

Sutton is continuously investing in the health, wellbeing and education of our residents and the future generation, as set out in the “Ambitious for Sutton” corporate plan. We are home to the Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together with the development of the London Cancer Hub, Sutton will be the world’s leading life-science district, specialising in cancer research and treatment. Our vision will create around 13,000 jobs while contributing £1.2bn to the UK economy each year, a vibrant community of scientists, doctors and innovative companies intended to deliver real benefits for cancer patients and drive economic growth. With the regeneration of the local areas with new homes and schools, Sutton is passionate about working closely with our residents and vulnerable groups to help them maintain their independence and create a balance between support and independent living.

The Council is seen as a driving force within the South London Partnership of five outer south west London boroughs focused on strategic growth, regeneration and investment. As we strive to improve our services and spaces for our residents as set out in the ‘Ambitious for Sutton’ corporate plan, Sutton aims to shape the future of the borough and adapt to the needs of its residents to make our Borough a great place to live, work and raise a family.

About the Service and Team

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. George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group (GESH), South West London and St Georges MH Trust and the GP Federation (the PCNs).

The children’s 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. George’s, 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 Council’s 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.

About the Role and Our Ideal Candidate

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.

Our Offer to You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-31 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
• Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
• Two volunteering days per year
• Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
• Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
• Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
• Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
• Zip car scheme
• Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support

Application Process

Apply online outlining what skills, abilities and experience you can bring which makes you an ideal candidate for this role. Please refer to the requirements outlined in the job profile when completing your application and check your CV details have been uploaded correctly in the relevant sections.

We understand and recognise the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace and are embracing AI where appropriate, to boost our productivity and streamline how we deliver our Council services efficiently; to provide the best possible outcomes for our residents and communities.
However, we reserve the right to reject applications where it is apparent that AI-generated content has been used in isolation and without personalised responses. At Sutton we value authenticity and are looking for individuals who can clearly demonstrate their own skills, experience and motivation for the role that they are applying for and embrace and demonstrate our PRIDE values.
Here at Sutton we have core values of Transparency and this is to be demonstrated during the application process and completion of the supporting statement and will be further tested at interview and selection stage for those who progress forward.

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received, it is strongly advised that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

As part of our award winning Diversity Programme we anonymise all applications received to reduce conscious and unconscious bias enabling every application to be reviewed on the knowledge, skills and experience shown in your application. We encourage our interview panels to be as diverse as possible (age, cultural, neurodiverse etc.) to reduce bias where possible. We are fully committed to removing barriers and enhancing the diversity of our workforce.

Additional Information

We are proud to be a diverse and welcoming Borough and we strive to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve, and instil a sense of belonging in our staff. We celebrate and respect differences and appreciate the value of having a diverse workforce, therefore we welcome applications from under represented groups.

To support our workers and their families we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and inclusive staff networks who help drive our diversity agenda.

We are also proud to be a disability confident employer and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for a role. As an accredited London Living Wage Employer all our employees are guaranteed the London Living Wage regardless of their length or type of contract.

The UK has a points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the GOV.UK website for right to work guidance. Sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. As a result, we cannot guarantee sponsorship for all roles and will evaluate sponsorship requests on a case-by-case basis.