Job summary
Are you a dedicated and empathetic children's nurse ready to take on a new challenge in your career? Do you thrive in a dynamic specialist setting where you can lead and inspire and make a difference? Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a experienced team lead for nursing services at Chailey Heritage Foundation. This is an opportunity for you to lead a skilled team, drive excellence and make a meaningful difference to children and young people with complex care needs.
The nursing team delivers across two key services:
Clinical support to pupils in a formal partnership agreement with Chailey Heritage Foundation. This is provided within Chailey Heritage Foundation School for pupils aged 3-19 years and within Chailey Heritage Foundation residential bungalows for those aged up to aged up to 25 years.
Main duties of the job
This role will require you to:
- Provide overarching day to day, operational leadership and management to the specialist Nursing Team.
- Ensure that the service is safe, efficient, effective and responsive within the resources available and escalate any issues regarding this promptly and succinctly within Trust processes
- Understand and contribute to the development of clinical nursing practice and service strategies within Chailey Clinical Services, ensuring evidence base practice is embedded across the service
- Promote professional nursing accountability and responsibilities of the Specialist Nursing Team.
- Promote the health and wellbeing of children and their families and to ensure the provision of high quality, safe nursing care.
- Work closely with other health professionals within the Trust and across the wider health economy, as well as across statutory and third sector agencies.
- Work pro-actively with Chailey Heritage Foundation colleagues to maintain effective partnership working and ensure processes are in place, followed and evolved as necessary to manage arising issues and concerns, such as incidents, complaints and quality of care concerns. In addition, ensure effective partnership working monitors and supports quality improvement initiatives across both services.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the role:
Developing and maintaining excellent standards of clinical nursing practice across the Specialist Nursing service
Participate with the development and implementation of clinical policies and standards; adhere to national standards and clinical policies in line with National and SCFT requirements
Ensuring the service rota is completed in a timely way to safely manage Chailey Heritage Foundation partnership work and CCS Short Breaks packages
Responsible for attending all mandatory and statutory training and ensuring you and the team remain in date with Trust requirements
Responsible for ensuring you and the team attend regular clinical supervision, safeguarding supervision and an annual personal development review.
Overarching responsibility for ensuring safe use of clinical and non-clinical equipment used within the team.
Support professional development and on-going education of team members, including student nurses and medical students in all areas of specialist clinical knowledge and skills.
Participate in peer supervision and education sessions. Take the lead, develop and contribute to a specialist area of expertise within peer review and reflective practice as part of the MDT.
Protect, safeguard and promote the well-being of children in line with the most up to date government legislation.
Participate with the development and implementation of clinical policies and standards; adhere to national standards and clinical policies in line with National and SCFT requirements
Report any concerns re child and adult safeguarding through the appropriate routes as per Trust guidance.
Support and participate in nursing research and audit projects as required.
Liaise with statutory agencies regarding the nursing/ health needs of the young people.
Work with the Matron to manage the specialist nursing budget, including recruitment and retention of staff and have responsibility for petty cash and valuables.
Develop plans and strategies for the development and promotion of the service, working alongside senior managers, the MDT and stakeholders.
Please see JD and PS for detailed description of roles and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the role:
Developing and maintaining excellent standards of clinical nursing practice across the Specialist Nursing service
Participate with the development and implementation of clinical policies and standards; adhere to national standards and clinical policies in line with National and SCFT requirements
Ensuring the service rota is completed in a timely way to safely manage Chailey Heritage Foundation partnership work and CCS Short Breaks packages
Responsible for attending all mandatory and statutory training and ensuring you and the team remain in date with Trust requirements
Responsible for ensuring you and the team attend regular clinical supervision, safeguarding supervision and an annual personal development review.
Overarching responsibility for ensuring safe use of clinical and non-clinical equipment used within the team.
Support professional development and on-going education of team members, including student nurses and medical students in all areas of specialist clinical knowledge and skills.
Participate in peer supervision and education sessions. Take the lead, develop and contribute to a specialist area of expertise within peer review and reflective practice as part of the MDT.
Protect, safeguard and promote the well-being of children in line with the most up to date government legislation.
Participate with the development and implementation of clinical policies and standards; adhere to national standards and clinical policies in line with National and SCFT requirements
Report any concerns re child and adult safeguarding through the appropriate routes as per Trust guidance.
Support and participate in nursing research and audit projects as required.
Liaise with statutory agencies regarding the nursing/ health needs of the young people.
Work with the Matron to manage the specialist nursing budget, including recruitment and retention of staff and have responsibility for petty cash and valuables.
Develop plans and strategies for the development and promotion of the service, working alongside senior managers, the MDT and stakeholders.
Please see JD and PS for detailed description of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Shortlisting
Essential
- A positive attitude to disability
- Registered Nurse - Child or Learning Disability with current NMC registration.
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability.
Desirable
- Physical Assessment of children/young people at level 6/7 or equivalent or willing to undertake
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
Application Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse- Children
- Relevant nursing degree
- Evidence of leadership or mentorship qualification
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability
- Significant experience working with families.
- Evidence of ability develop policy, protocols, guidelines and education materials.
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies.
- Understanding of financial/budget management.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Evidence of relevant post registration professional development within the last three years.
- Effective and proactive assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Critical thinking and decision making/advanced clinical judgment and problem solving.
- Excellent understanding of children's communication, augmented communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard.
- Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information/ distressing news, understanding when they need to seek supervision or assistance.
- Ability to work variable shifts to include nights and weekends to ensure the safe service delivery.
- Displays a positive attitude to disability.
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate to the role e.g. airway management and long term ventilation, enteral feeding, IV Management, advanced bowel and bladder management, tissue viability & skin care and management of the deteriorating child in the community, palliative and end of life care.
Application Desirable
Desirable
- Recent experience of leadership role
- Physical Assessment of children/young people at level 6/7 or equivalent or willing to undertake
- Other relevant advanced nursing qualifications at level 6/7 e.g. Palliative & Complex Care, Advanced Communication.
- Evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation & critical analysis. Use of Quality Improvement initiatives.
- Skills in critical appraisal and evaluation of research and other evidence
- Implementation of research/audit in practice.
- Ability to prioritise service workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure
- Ability to develop, set up and implement new working practices, structures to support them, and evaluate processes once implemented and initiate support.
- Interest in new technologies, processes and applications, working knowledge of IT applications with willingness to develop.
- Evidence the ability to multitask
Essential
Essential
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability.
- Significant experience working with families
- Understanding of financial/budget management.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Effective and proactive assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Critical thinking and decision making/advanced clinical judgment and problem solving.
- Analytical skills including clinical reflection and action planning.
- Excellent understanding of children's communication, augmented communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
- Ability to prioritise service workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard.
- Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A positive attitude to disability.
Desirable
- Evidence of teaching / mentoring / supervision /coaching/assessing.
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies
- Evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation & critical analysis. Use of Quality Improvement initiatives.
- Skills in critical appraisal and evaluation of research and other evidence.
- Implementation of research/audit in practice
- Ability to disseminate knowledge e.g. through publication or presentation.
- Interest in new technologies, processes and applications, working knowledge of IT applications with willingness to develop.
Person Specification
Shortlisting
Essential
- A positive attitude to disability
- Registered Nurse - Child or Learning Disability with current NMC registration.
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability.
Desirable
- Physical Assessment of children/young people at level 6/7 or equivalent or willing to undertake
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
Application Essential
Essential
- Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse- Children
- Relevant nursing degree
- Evidence of leadership or mentorship qualification
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability
- Significant experience working with families.
- Evidence of ability develop policy, protocols, guidelines and education materials.
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies.
- Understanding of financial/budget management.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Evidence of relevant post registration professional development within the last three years.
- Effective and proactive assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Critical thinking and decision making/advanced clinical judgment and problem solving.
- Excellent understanding of children's communication, augmented communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard.
- Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information/ distressing news, understanding when they need to seek supervision or assistance.
- Ability to work variable shifts to include nights and weekends to ensure the safe service delivery.
- Displays a positive attitude to disability.
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate to the role e.g. airway management and long term ventilation, enteral feeding, IV Management, advanced bowel and bladder management, tissue viability & skin care and management of the deteriorating child in the community, palliative and end of life care.
Application Desirable
Desirable
- Recent experience of leadership role
- Physical Assessment of children/young people at level 6/7 or equivalent or willing to undertake
- Other relevant advanced nursing qualifications at level 6/7 e.g. Palliative & Complex Care, Advanced Communication.
- Evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation & critical analysis. Use of Quality Improvement initiatives.
- Skills in critical appraisal and evaluation of research and other evidence
- Implementation of research/audit in practice.
- Ability to prioritise service workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure
- Ability to develop, set up and implement new working practices, structures to support them, and evaluate processes once implemented and initiate support.
- Interest in new technologies, processes and applications, working knowledge of IT applications with willingness to develop.
- Evidence the ability to multitask
Essential
Essential
- Significant experience of nursing children and young people with complex clinical needs and disability.
- Significant experience working with families
- Understanding of financial/budget management.
- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of children and young people, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning.
- Effective and proactive assessment and management of clinical risk.
- Critical thinking and decision making/advanced clinical judgment and problem solving.
- Analytical skills including clinical reflection and action planning.
- Excellent understanding of children's communication, augmented communication, physical well-being & emotional needs; can identify their changing individual needs and preferences and promote independence.
- Ability to prioritise service workload and maintain quality care in times of pressure.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding and take appropriate action to safeguard.
- Awareness of professional responsibilities and boundaries.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary interagency teams and to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A positive attitude to disability.
Desirable
- Evidence of teaching / mentoring / supervision /coaching/assessing.
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating programmes of care in collaboration with other allied health, social, education, charity and volunteer agencies
- Evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation & critical analysis. Use of Quality Improvement initiatives.
- Skills in critical appraisal and evaluation of research and other evidence.
- Implementation of research/audit in practice
- Ability to disseminate knowledge e.g. through publication or presentation.
- Interest in new technologies, processes and applications, working knowledge of IT applications with willingness to develop.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
