Band 7 Community Children's Nursing Lead

This Band 7 post leads the Children's Community Nursing Team in Surrey for HCRG Care Group. The lead manages the service day to day, including staffing matters, and deputises for other team leaders and the service manager. About 70% of the time goes on leadership and 30% on clinical work, keeping advanced skills in tracheostomy, ventilation and end-of-life care. Applicants need a specialist community children's nursing qualification, five years' paediatric experience and a full UK driving licence.

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the children's community nursing team, including recruitment, supervision, appraisal, sickness and disciplinary processes
• Assess, plan and deliver holistic, evidence-based care with children, families and multi-agency teams, communicating clearly at all levels
• Maintain advanced clinical competence in procedures such as central line care, enteral feeding, tracheostomy, ventilation and end-of-life care
• Lead on risk reduction, safeguarding and quality assurance within the service
• Give direction on clinical governance, service performance and workforce development
• Handle complaints and incidents, analysing causes and putting action plans in place
• Plan, prioritise and evaluate team and individual workloads
• Support strategic planning, policy development and systems improvement
• Ensure safe use and maintenance of complex clinical equipment such as syringe drivers, ventilators and feeding pumps
• Provide specialist training and mentorship on caring for children with complex health needs
• Lead end-of-life care pathways and governance reviews, including Morbidity & Mortality and CDOP meetings
• Deputise for other Clinical Team Leaders and the Clinical Service Manager

• RN Child or RSCN with Specialist Practitioner (Community Children's Nursing) or equivalent

• NMC registration

• Minimum 5 years' solid clinical experience across varied paediatric settings
• Proven leadership, including staff management and project or change lead
• Experience in service development and clinical governance

• Innovative, resourceful and flexible to meet the needs of children and families
• Strong IT competence with systems and software
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Functional numeracy and literacy
• Skilled in managing difficult conversations

• Full UK driving licence
• Access to a car insured for business use
• Criminal records disclosure and vetting checks

• Leadership or management qualification
• Knowledge of budgets, data and performance monitoring
• Experience managing financial resources, complaints and Health & Safety

• NHS pension scheme
• 5% fringe payment
• £1,000 welcome bonus, subject to terms and conditions
• 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counselling, career coaching and legal advice
• Reward Gateway discounts and offers
• Wagestream access to earnings as needed
• Learning and development support, e-learning and funding
• Strive for Better professional networks