Band 8a Lead Nurse Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced senior children’s nurse to Lead the newly formed Children's Community Nursing Team that cares for Children and Young People within Barking , Havering and Redbridge.

This new collaboration of service will work within the Children’s Directorate. As Lead Nurse you would be an expert practitioner in Children’s Community Nursing, enhancing the service and enabling the delivery of a safe high-quality service will be required to work leading a team of Children’s community nurse. You must be able to evidence your ability to motivate and inspire others and work collaboratively with multi- disciplinary and multi-agency teams to deliver the highest standards of care, staff support, and service delivery.

The Lead nurse role will contribute to leading service delivery, supporting quality improvement and providing safe, effective and specialist care to BCYP alongside other specialist nursing services within the Children’s Directorate. So if you are an enthusiastic, dynamic, and highly motivated nurse who is committed, caring and compassionate - come and join our fantastic team. Your professional development will be encouraged and supported.

You must have full driving licence and access to own vehicle.

If you would like further information about this job or would like to arrange an informal visit, please contact:
Fiona Cook, Matron for Children's (01708 435000 ext 6554)

Previous applicants need not apply

To be an expert practitioner in Children’s Community Nursing, enhancing the service and enabling the delivery of a safe high-quality service.

To provide advanced clinical skills, leadership and knowledge in clinical practice.

To ensure Babies, Children’s and Young People (BCYP) receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time by leading the new collaboration of the BHRUT Children’s Community Nursing teams across the tri borough.

To contribute to leading service delivery, supporting quality improvement and providing safe, effective and specialist care to BCYP alongside other specialist nursing services within the Children’s Directorate.

To support innovative ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and child focused service working closely with the acute wards, specialist nurses, community providers and tertiary centres to deliver care within the home and reduce the length of stay.

To be responsible for the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with MDT colleagues.

To act as an excellent role model and leader to all staff

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance .

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub . These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes . We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film .

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.