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The Lead Nurse will ensure the provision and delivery of a high standard of care to children with congenital heart disease providing professional and clinical leadership to multi-professionals. The postholder will work alongside the matron team and the DDN to ensure quality of services across the trust, ensuring patients and their families have equitable access to services.  

The Paediatric Congenital Heart disease Lead Nurse at Southampton General Hospital is responsible for ensuring the delivery of seamless high-quality care, in line with national standards from foetal life to adulthood across the region.  
 
The Level 1 centre at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) delivers high quality care, education and research across the region in partnership with the Level 2 service based at Oxford University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust (OUH) and numerous Level 3 centres across the Thames Valley and Wessex region.  
   
The Paediatric Congenital Lead works closely with the network board, consisting of the Lead Nurse, Network Manager and Network to ensure the quality of CHD services across the Thames Valley and Wessex area, ensuring patients and their families have equitable access to high quality services throughout the network. Fetal medicine, Maternity and Paediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) services work closely together on one site at UHS and have developed integrated, effective cross-site working with our Level 2 and 3 partners in the 
network. We strive to promote a culture of openness and respectful close-working with all partners within Southampton General and the network, focusing on placing the patient and family at the centre of care.  
 
We are committed to the development of improvements in CHD care delivery through collaborative working, quality research and academic activity. Research is an integral part of our mission to constantly improve and be able to offer better care for patients and is conducted across the trust at all levels of service delivery. 
 
The Lead Nurse for Congenital Heart Disease will be an integral team member for Congenital Heart Disease within the Children’s Hospital and Wessex and Thames Valley Region. The post holder will lead on development and compliance with all the CHD standards. This will be achieved by working with the Congenital Heart Disease team within UHS and the Network.