Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Nursing Head of Service
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An Exciting Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has become available for a highly motivated, innovative, and experienced Nursing Head of Service to join the divisional leadership team of the Children's Community Nursing within the Community Care division.
Role Overview
The Clinical Head of Service will demonstrate strong professional clinical leadership and provide specialist clinical advice across the services within their portfolio. Acting in support of the Divisional and Deputy Divisional AHP/Nurse Directors, the post holder will be a member of the divisional leadership team and work as a triumvirate with the other AHP Clinical Heads of Service and the Operational Head of Service.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Divisional and Deputy Divisional AHP/Nurse Directors to continually improve equitable patient care, experience, access, and outcomes and assist with the implementation of national and Trust initiatives working closely with the other Heads of Service.
- Play a key role in developing the service to meet the population's needs at locality and regional level and will have a service development portfolio and clinical leadership role.
- Ensure services provide safe, effective, personalised, and evidence-based clinical interventions and holistic care.
- Work with the divisional management team and Heads of Service to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Division, ensuring that a framework is in place to ensure that all clinical staff are appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed so that they are, therefore, efficient, effective, engaged, and highly motivated.
- Responsible, with the leadership team, for the oversight of quality governance within the division and provide robust assurance to demonstrate safe, effective care is delivered.
- In partnership with the relevant clinical executive director and the clinical divisional leadership team and other clinical Heads of Services, lead and implement the Trust’s clinical priorities and strategies ensuring clinical staff are engaged and connected to the objectives and plans.
- Support the clinical lead to supervise clinical areas requiring special management measures or additional support to ensure that patient safety is maintained, and improvement objectives are met.
- Lead and promote an open learning culture which facilitates speaking up and listening up.
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About Us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
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Why Work for Us?
- Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
- Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
- Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
- Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
- Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
- Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our Values
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jenefer Gillam
- Job title: Deputy Nursing Divisional Director
- Email address: jenefer.gillam@nhs.net
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