Community Paediatric Clinic Assistant Lead

Community Paediatric Clinic Assistant Lead

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and families and ready to step into a leadership role? We're looking for a motivated and compassionate Lead Clinic Assistant to join our Community Paediatrics service across BNSSG.

In this role, you'll lead and develop our Community Clinic Assistant team, working alongside Community Paediatricians and Specialist Neurodevelopment Nurses to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care focused on prevention, early intervention, and family‑centred support.

You'll work across Children's Centres, Special Schools, and community settings, providing clinical leadership, supervision, and support to your team while ensuring services are safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well‑led.

You'll also play a key role in delivering Sirona's Community Paediatrics vision, supporting service transformation within the THRIVE framework, and building strong partnerships with schools, GPs, and local communities to improve outcomes for children and young people.

If you enjoy leading others, working collaboratively, and making a real difference in children's lives, we'd love to hear from you.

• Motivate and support the Clinic Assistant team to deliver Sirona's vision for Community Paediatrics.

Maintain oversight of the quality of Clinic Assistant services across localities, including Special Schools, Observation Clinics, Specialist and Complex Clinics. Work closely with the Specialist Neurodevelopmental Nurse Lead to embed quality improvement where needed.

Ensure team members are empowered to contribute to service development and that their voices are represented in decision‑making.

Provide inspiring, compassionate, and innovative leadership that supports the delivery of a high‑quality, child‑centred service, responsive to the needs of children, families, carers, and communities.

Deliver high‑quality line management, including recruitment, selection, induction, and ongoing development of team members.

Manage team rotas, shift patterns, and deployment across service locations.

Monitor and support staff wellbeing, including managing sickness and absence appropriately.

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England's largest provider of Adult's and Children's Community Services and we'd love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days' annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

• Registered Nurse (Mental Health, Learning disability, Adult Nursing or Childrens Nursing)
• Current NMC registration
• Attendance at line management or leadership training

• Experience of working with children and knowledge of child development
• Effective team working, including within the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Desire to be part of service improvement
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to different situations
• Ability to work autonomously and manage own workload effectively
• Experience of line management or providing supervision
• Experience of group facilitation/teaching
• Experience of involvement with service improvement
• Knowledge and experience relating to children with learning difficulties, Autistic Spectrum disorder, ADHD or mental health needs

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Clinical Lead for Neurodevelopmental Nurses