Senior Nurse for Integrated PaediatricsNHS
Job summary
Are you an inspirational children's nurse leader ready to shape the future of integrated paediatric services? We are seeking an exceptional Senior Nurse for Integrated Paediatrics to provide strategic, compassionate, and visible leadership across a diverse portfolio of hospital and community children's services.
Working alongside senior clinical and operational leaders, you will lead strategic improvements, champion patient safety, and ensure outstanding experiences for children, young people and their families who use our services.
We are looking for a highly motivated children's nurse with significant senior leadership experience, strong operational and financial management skills, and a passion for transforming services. You will be a visible role model, empowering teams to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care while fostering innovation, accountability, inclusion, and professional development.
At Barts Health, you'll join one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, working with talented colleagues across hospital, community and system-wide partnerships to improve outcomes for children and young people across North East London.
If you are a visionary nursing leader who thrives on challenge, collaboration and making a lasting difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide forward-thinking and professional leadership to all nursing staff and other staff groups, within the Integrated Arm of the Children's Division. The post holder will have responsibility for ward areas 7D and the Paediatric Assessment Unit, Children's Hospital at Home and community Children's Nursing Services based at Mile End Hospital, including the Looked After Children's Nursing Team. In addition, the post holder will manage clinical nurse specialists within the integrated arm, namely Allergy, dermatology and children with medical complexity.
The post holder will also have full understanding of the key functions of the teams and services they manage ensuring the child and their family/carers experience in wards & departments is of a consistent high standard with an emphasis on safety, dignity and compassion. The post holder will understand the current local and national objectives for their responsible services and be able to plan and develop strategies to incorporate these into current services.
The post holder will work in partnership with the Clinical lead and General Manager for the services in their portfolio, developing the strategic direction and policy framework, ensuring that the service contributes significantly to the achievement of corporate objectives and that effective governance arrangements are implemented and maintained.
Job description
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About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.