Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment Available)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2065
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Ward Manager General Paediatrics
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you an experienced paediatric nurse ready to lead with impact? Step into a pivotal leadership role as Ward Manager of Great Western Ward, where your clinical expertise, managerial insight, and passion for paediatrics will shape the future of care for children and young people.
This is more than a Band 7 post—it's an opportunity to drive service delivery, inspire a high-performing team, and collaborate with paediatric specialists across the trust. Based on our 22-bedded general paediatric inpatient unit, you’ll oversee care for patients ranging from neonates to adolescence, including admissions from emergency services, paediatric intensive care units, specialist services such as infectious diseases and referrals from other sites across West London Children’s Hospital.
We’re looking for someone who brings:
• Significant experience in paediatric nursing, ideally with leadership exposure.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and a dedication to patient outcomes.
• Strong communication and organisational skills with confidence in decision-making.
• A commitment to innovation, transformation, and creating a culture of excellence.
Join a ward where teamwork is second nature, learning is continuous, and your leadership genuinely makes a difference. If you're driven to lead paediatric care with energy, empathy, and expertise, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this leadership role, you will:
• Provide strategic management and day-to-day oversight of the ward
• Lead workforce planning, clinical governance, and service improvement initiatives
• Mentor and support junior nurses and drive continuous professional development
• Foster interprofessional collaboration across critical care, ED, community teams, and ambulatory care
• Be a visible advocate for child-centred care, ensuring safety, quality, and compassion at every turn
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Child)
- Educated to diploma/degree level or equivalent experience
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Management certificate or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of autonomous practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- General paediatric experience at B6 level
- Leading and developing a team
- Datix and Risk
- Change management
Desirable criteria
- Budget management
- Project Management
- Infectious Diseases experience
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
- Advanced clinical skills and knowledge base in children’s nursing.
- Ability to lead a large team
- IT Skills (Inc email & office packages)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and participation in PSIRF framework
- Knowledge and participation in PSIRF framework Service improvement experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Macleod
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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