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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Paediatric nurse to provide leadership and management to the Children's community nursing team in the role of Service Lead. The Children's Community Nursing team plan, deliver and supervise care for children and young people with acute conditions, complex needs and disabilities, and their families, in their own homes, schools, clinics and other community settings.

The post holder will manage a team of Registered Nurses and report to the Service Manager. They will be responsible for delivering a high quality, accessible patient-centred service alongside the Service Manager

The Service Lead will contribute to the strategic direction, supporting the continued integration of pathways, and take a lead role in facilitating effective positive partnerships with primary care and the wider health and social care community and key stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have:

1. Extensive paediatric clinical experience in a community setting.

2. Strong  proven leadership and managerial skills.

3. Experience of supervising and training peers, students and other colleagues.

4. Strong values and the desire to ensure that our children and young people receive the best possible care from a dedicated, highly qualified team of staff.

5. A positive, resilient, flexible, ‘can do’ attitude.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children’s Nursing Service provides specialist paediatric nursing care including end of life. The team provide support to children, young people and their families with acute and long term conditions, complex needs and disabilities across the whole of Nottinghamshire.

Post holder will be an experienced senior paediatric qualified nurse who will have responsibility across the service for direct nursing care plus leadership, training and support to the CCN teams delivering care at home, in schools and other community settings. We are looking for a committed and compassionate individual with extensive clinical experience and proven leadership skills.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.  We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.  We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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