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Clinical Service Manager - children with complex needs nursing team

Job details
Posting date: 31 January 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata if P/T)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 02 March 2025
Location: Walton Hall, MK7 6AA
Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6951171/333-D-MK-CM-1118

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Summary

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Paediatric nurse to provide leadership and management to the Children's complex needs nursing team in the role of Service Lead. The Children's complex needs 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.
• Provides clinical and professional leadership to the Nurses in the team and advises the Service Manager on clinical matters concerning the service.
• Co-ordinates the clinical care delivered by the team ensuring a multidisciplinary focus.
• Develops and monitors the standards of nursing care and supervises the clinical performance of staff.
• Keeps professionally updated, aware of current health trends and developments in childrens community nursing services.
• Promotes Health Education with patients and fellow professionals.
• May be required to undertake/review clinical work requiring knowledge of assessment, formulation, delivery and review of a treatment plan
• Maintain accurate written and computerised records of data for own interventions and provide reports for third parties as required.
• To be professionally and legally accountable as an autonomous professional for all aspects of work in relation to own clinical work and the delegation of any aspects to other staff, students or carers.
• Promotes clinical governance within the team, ensuring regular clinical audit is undertaken and make recommendations to the Service Manager to improve service delivery based on the results.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based practice within the team including measurement of clinical outcomes and contribution to research activity if required

As an organisation we value our employees, prioritizes quality care, and offer a supportive and fulfilling work environment for healthcare professionals. We encourage personal development and are open to new ideas and innovation.

We are a well established team working closely with multi partners including health, social care , education and voluntary agencies.

Our team is diverse and sits within the wider Children's Specialist Community Service and work closely with other staff within the wider nursing services, our therapy colleagues and colleagues in education, social care and voluntary sector.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The Children's Complex Needs 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 Milton Keynes.

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.


This advert closes on Thursday 13 Feb 2025

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