Team Lead for Community Children's Nursing & Specialist School Nursing

• Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the Community Children's Nursing and Specialist School Nursing Team across East Berkshire.
• Deliver and oversee high-quality nursing care for children and young people with complex and long-term health needs.
• Manage a small clinical caseload and support staff with complex clinical decision-making.
• Provide management supervision and annual appraisals for team members.
• Lead workforce planning, rota coordination and management of staff absence.
• Work closely with the Service Manager and Practice Development Leads to support service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Deliver competency-based clinical training and assessments for families, school staff and healthcare professionals.
• Support safeguarding processes and ensure compliance with clinical governance requirements.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to ensure coordinated, child-centred care.
• Contribute to audit, service evaluation and ongoing improvement of specialist children's services.

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Desirable

• Training clinical skills to staff/parents
• Experience of working with children and families within the palliative and end of life stages
• Previous experience managing a team

Essential

• Ability to use own initiative, work independently and autonomously and prioritise workload
• Effective time management skills
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Ability to demonstrate high level communication skills dealing with complex situations that arise within the community setting and outside agencies
• Able to communicate effectively with CYP, including non-verbal communication
• Wide range of nursing skills, knowledge and experience, including care of tracheostomies, enteral feeding devices and epilepsy
• Approachable, confident, empathetic, trustworthy, passionate about delivery of high-quality nursing care
• Ability to assist and motivate others
• Good understanding of IT skills and able to use electronic clinical records systems
• To work effectively as a team member