Job Summary
This is an opportunity to join our Community Children's Nurse team within a leadership role. This role will sit within the Women and Children's Directorate and be part of the wider leadership team. This role will support in the management and development of the eservice.

Main Duties of the Job

• This role will oversee the Community Children's Nursing service and will have direct management reasonability's for the team.
• You will provide expert clinical advice to the team.
• This role will also work as part of a multi disciplinary team supporting families in the community and within education.
• This role will ensure robust caseload management and design the workforce to meet the needs of the service.
• Act as expert practitioner supporting staff in clinical decision making.
• Lead multi-disciplinary discussions with relevant teams.
• Provide clinical supervision for team members
• Undertake assessment of needs within clinical caseload and ensure appropriate plans are implemented.
• Ensure high quality safe care is delivered by the team inline with clinical governance requirements.

About Us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye. We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends. More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Person Specification
Training
Essential

• Registered Children's Nurse

Desirable

• Specialist community qualification

Skills
Essential

• Advanced community paediatric knowledge

Desirable

• Experience in service redesign

Experience
Essential

• Ability to communicate sensitive information

Desirable

• Work collaboratively with statutory partners

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).