Paediatric Burns unit manager

This Band 7 post manages the Paediatric Burns nursing team at Pinderfields Hospital, part of Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. The manager runs the team day to day, covering safe staffing, staff development, clinical governance and risk, and helps shape the service. Clinical and professional leadership sits at the centre of the role, with close work alongside the multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families.

Candidates need to be registered children's nurses with post-registration burns experience and a senior nursing background.

• Lead the Paediatric Burns nursing team day to day, promoting a positive, patient-centred culture
• Maintain high clinical standards and give specialist advice on complex patients
• Work with the multidisciplinary team, patients and families, including admission, discharge and transfer
• Ensure safe, effective staffing, skill mix and workforce deployment, maintaining staffing records in Health Roster and Safe Care
• Lead workforce development through appraisal, education, competency development, clinical supervision and professional development
• Provide leadership for quality, safety and clinical governance, including incident management, risk assessment, audit, patient experience and learning from complaints
• Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the service
• Create a learning environment where staff develop their knowledge, skills and confidence

• Evidence of further study within speciality

• NMC registration as a children's nurse

• Recent post-registration experience in an acute setting
• Post-registration burns experience
• Experience in a senior nursing role
• Experience in research and audit

• Evidence of competency in teaching and assessing
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

• NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance
• Employee health and wellbeing services
• Onsite nursery
• Childcare vouchers
• Home electronics schemes
• Working carers support
• Carer-friendly policies