Children's Community Nursing Services Team leader

The Team Leader will be responsible for the management of a large team of staff and ensuring the provision of highly specialised nursing care and advice. The successful candidate will have excellent communication and management skills and the ability to use available resources to provide a consistent seven day service to the children and families of the Bradford District.

The post holder will be responsible for planning, implementing and delivering children's nursing services within the community. The role carries overall responsibility for the day to day co-ordination of the care delivered to children who require both nursing support and continuing care within the community setting. This is both for children with complex needs to children who require time limited nursing interventions. The emphasis of the post will be quality improvement and effective clinical nursing leadership. The post holder will ensure all aspects of quality and safety are integral to the care delivered to children. The post holder is also responsible for on-going evaluation of services. This will be completed through ongoing audit with a focus on shaping future services to local needs

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Experience

Skills

Knowledge

Essential: - Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality working across organisational boundaries and integrated care providers.

Desirable: - Knowledge of local commissioning arrangements.

Qualifications

Essential: - Child Nursing Qualification; - Current mentorship qualification; - A recognised Leadership Qualification or currently enrolled on an appropriate course

Desirable: - Children's Community Nursing qualification

Other

Desirable: - Full UK Driving Licence