Senior Nurse Children’s Community Nursing Service

The closing date is 05 February 2025
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £54,550 to £61,412 a year per annum

Job summary

Due to the promotion of the current post holder, we require an experienced, knowledgeable, innovative and compassionate nursing leader to become the Senior Nurse of our Children’s Community Nursing Service. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise of modernising services with the engagement of teams and service users to deliver the highest quality care to meet the population need across ABUHB, including:

  • Acute or short term health needs, ‘Care Closer To Home’ and community clinical & clinic nursing teams
  • Long term conditions which are met through a variety of Specialist Nursing teams provision, including Enteral Feeding & Gastroenterology, and Palliative Care
  • Support for children with disabilities including Children’s Continuing Care and Special School Nursing Teams
  • Children with Life limiting conditions including those who are at end of life.

Main duties of the job

The Senior Nurse is a visible, authoritative and professional clinical leader with responsibility for the direction of nursing, implementation of the corporate nursing agenda, enhancement/modernisation of clinical practice and development of clinical staff to optimise the patient and family experience of care.

The Senior Nurse has a day to day professional and operational responsibility for a defined area/speciality, supporting the Divisional Nurse and Service Manager to assure high quality, effective and efficient patient services.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Qualificaitons & Knowledge

Essential

  • NMC Registration RSCN or RN (Child Branch)
  • BSc Hons or equivalent degree appropriate to area of practice
  • Masters degree
  • Masters level module
  • Evidence of further CPD

Desirable

  • CCN Specialist Practice Degree
  • Teaching qualification
  • Recognised Leadership and Management Course

Experience

Essential

  • Proven track record of effective leadership and management
  • Experience in improvement of patient experience
  • Experience in effective management of complex budgets
  • Experience of modernising and developing/improving services
  • Experience of auditing standards of care
  • Experience of developing policies and protocols

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).

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).