Job summary
- Main area
- Child Health
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 188-NM130126
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SUR E8 Ward
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata
- Closing
- 13/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse Children's Cardiac Nurse Specialist
Band 8a
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Cardiac Ward at Southampton Children’s Hospital for an experienced and passionate Cardiac Nurse to join our highly specialised team as Lead Cardiac Nurse.
This pivotal leadership role offers the chance to shape and support excellence in a dynamic clinical environment.
Working for our organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse (RN or RN Child or duel trained)
- Master’s Degree in a health- related discipline (or demonstrable evidence of working at Masters Level).
- Evidence of continuing. professional development
- Consolidated post registration experience in Congenital Heart Disease
- Leadership and management of a clinical team.
- Experience of leading complex projects to redesign and improve clinical services.
- In-depth specialist knowledge of Congenital Heart Disease
- Evidence of management development and leadership development
Desirable criteria
- Leadership / management training / qualification.
- Teaching qualification
- Experience of working in a strategic role as a senior nurse leader
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
- Catherine Roberts
- Job title
- Matron Child Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07407893347
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