Community Children’s Nursing Clinical Lead

Overview

In this role you will provide clinical leadership for the Children’s Community Nursing team within the Integrated Children’s Nursing and Therapy Team. You will drive high-quality, family-centred, evidence-based care for children and young people with acute, complex, and long-term needs, across community and partner settings. You will lead service development, governance and collaboration with health, social care, and education to enable care at home where possible. This position offers influence over transformation and innovation in the ICNT and community nursing services.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong clinical leadership across the Children’s Community Nursing team within the Integrated service
• Promote high-quality, safe, and family-centred care across all pathways
• Support integration and collaborative working across nursing, therapies, services
• Lead on clinical governance, safeguarding, and quality improvement initiatives
• Oversee complex case management, ensuring coordinated and effective care delivery
• Line manage staff, including supervision, appraisal, and workforce development
• Contribute to service transformation and integration projects within ICNT
• Build effective partnerships with acute services, primary care, education, and social care
• Drive a culture of compassion, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Key requirements

• NMC registered with degree in Children’s nursing
• Relevant CPD to paeds/community
• Significant post-registration experience in children’s nursing
• Experience working with children with complex health needs across settings / caseload management
• MDT working & SG expertise
• Desirable: Staff management / leadership
• Integrated working experience
• Service development

• MDT working
• Teaching skills
• Family-centred care, good communication skills
• Highly developed specialist and evidence-based knowledge across paediatric care
• Advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills in paediatric care
• Teaching skills

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