Working closely with multidisciplinary partners, commissioners, and families, you will help ensure the service continues to meet local needs and achieve positive outcomes for the children and young people we care for.

Main Responsibilities

• Adhere to NMC Codes, professional standards, and organisational policies.
• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the Children’s Community Nursing Team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal, sickness, and disciplinary processes.
• Deputise for other Clinical Team Leaders and the Clinical Service Manager as required.
• Assess, plan, and deliver holistic, evidence-based care in partnership with children, families, and multi-agency teams, respecting privacy, dignity, and consent.
• Maintain advanced clinical competence in procedures such as central line care, enteral feeding, catheterisation, tracheostomy and ventilation management, wound/stoma care, and end-of-life care.
• Ensure safe use and maintenance of complex clinical equipment (e.g., syringe drivers, ventilators, feeding pumps).
• Contribute clinically (30%) to service delivery, supporting high standards of care and continuous improvement.
• Communicate effectively across all levels, including multidisciplinary teams, families, and external partners, using sensitivity and professionalism.
• Handle complaints and incidents, analysing causes and implementing action plans to improve safety and service quality.
• Plan, prioritise, and evaluate team and individual workloads to meet service demands and objectives.
• Support strategic planning, policy development, and systems improvement aligned with national and local priorities.
• Lead on risk reduction, safeguarding, and quality assurance within the service.
• Provide specialist training and mentorship to staff in caring for children with complex health needs.
• Lead and participate in end-of-life care pathways and governance reviews, including Morbidity & Mortality and CDOP meetings.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• RN Child / RSCN with Specialist Practitioner (Community Children’s Nursing) or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ solid clinical experience across varied paediatric settings
• Proven leadership (staff management, project/change lead)
• Innovative, resourceful, and flexible to meet children’s/families’ needs
• Experience in service development and clinical governance
• Strong IT competence (systems and software)
• Excellent communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills
• Functional numeracy and literacy
• Skilled in managing difficult conversations

Desirable

• Leadership/management qualification
• Knowledge of budgets, data, and performance monitoring
• Experience managing financial resources, complaints, and Health & Safety

Other requirements

• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.

Please see the attached job description for the full personal specification.

For further information, please contact Lisa on 07867373045.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year, guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.