Team Leader - PATCH CCN | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7280418/196-NM12974 |
Summary
Are you a highly motivated paediatric nurse with leadership experience, an interest in managing asthma, eczema, or constipation and a passion forproviding patient care in autonomous nurse led clinics? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Patch Children’s Community Nursing (CCN) team as a Team Leader.
The Children's Community Nursing Service includes the Children’s Hospital at home, Community nursing, PATCH and Complex Needs Nursing teams which manage a range of childhood conditions. Children benefit from the expertise of the hospital in the comfort and safety of their own home, school and a variety of other community settings. We have a dynamic team of highly skilled nurses who facilitate early discharge of children from hospital as well as prevent hospital admissions and ED attendance.
The Patch CCN team was developed as part of the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP), an innovative quality improvement programme aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of children in Lambeth and Southwark. Our team provides community-based care to children and young people with three ongoing conditions: asthma, eczema, and constipation.
We utilise a population-based approach to healthcare and employ progressive technology to deliver services through community clinics located across multiple sites in Lambeth and Southwark.
Closing Date: 7th July 2025
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Team leader who has a special interest or experience in the management of these long-term conditions.
Applicants will have worked as an autonomous practitioner within the community setting and/or primary care previously. Excellent organisational, time management and communication skills are required to support and lead this forward-thinking team of experienced nurses. The post holder will be a highly visible senior nurse and as such expected to provide specialist knowledge, advice/support, and clinical expertise to the team.
The post holder will work as an autonomous expert practitioner with
responsibility for leading a team of nurses who will provide high quality
specialist nursing care to children at home and community settings.
In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary nursing team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless Children’s community nursing service delivery within the Acute Children’s Community Nursing Service with a focus on ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care.
The post holder will be responsible for leading the team and contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues and stakeholders.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
§To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within thespecialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, deliveringindividualised and personalised direct patient care
§ Be responsible for assessing and effectively managing conditions within thespeciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to leadothers to do the same.
§Act as an advocate for patients, to ensure a patient orientated approach tothe delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and otherrelevant guidelines.
§Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patientexperience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs anddoctrines.
§Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health andwellbeing of the individuals.
§Recognise and monitor exacerbations of illness and initiate
appropriate nursing interventions using clinical judgement and expertise inassessing and implementing change during clinical visits.
§To regularly attend and liaise with GP’s and acute hospital colleagues to enabletimely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow up in thecommunity.
§Participate in the promotion of patient centred care, and establish andmaintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family duringthe period of assessment, treatment and after care
§Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions
relating to their treatment and management. Provide advice contributing tothe wellbeing of the patient and participate in health promotion to improvehealth and prevent re attendance.
§Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and highly specialist advice in theassessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. Thisincludes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreedchanges to clinical care.
Please see full details of duties and responsibilities in the Job Description attached.
This advert closes on Monday 7 Jul 2025