Children's Specialist Nursing Service Lead

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Main area Children's Community Nursing Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Site The Medical Centre Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 26/10/2026

Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)

At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.

Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.

We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.

Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.

Are you an experienced children’s nurse leader who is passionate about delivering outstanding care and improving services for children and young people with additional and complex health needs?

We are looking for a compassionate and inclusive leader to provide senior clinical, professional and operational leadership across our Children’s Community Nursing Service and associated services including Special School Nursing, Paediatric Palliative Care and Child Development Nurse Specialists. This is an exciting opportunity to shape services that make a meaningful difference to children, young people and families.

You will lead the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based and child- and family-centred care, while supporting service improvement, workforce development and strong clinical governance. Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner organisations, you will help ensure children receive high-quality care in the right place and at the right time.

The role combines strategic leadership with operational management offering the opportunity to influence service development, improve outcomes and support staff to thrive. You will champion quality, inclusion and continuous improvement, ensuring services remain responsive to the needs of diverse communities.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds who share our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, who are motivated to improve the experiences of children, young people and families.

The post holder will:

• Provide visible clinical and professional leadership across community children’s nursing, palliative care, complex care and special school nursing services.
• Lead and support nursing and support worker teams, ensuring effective workforce planning, recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal, wellbeing, learning and performance management.
• Maintain high standards of clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, incident reporting, complaint management, audit, evidence-based practice and quality improvement.
• Oversee operational performance, including activity, access, workforce and financial…