Children's Community Nursing Team Leader- Knowsley | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Knowsley is seeking a Clinical Team Leader to manage children's health care. The ideal candidate will support a team providing complex care, train staff, and engage with families. This role requires strong nursing skills and the ability to adapt to dynamic situations. Essential experience in children's nursing is needed to ensure high-quality care and effective service delivery.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in managing children's health needs.
• Ability to train and support junior staff.
• Competency in care of complex health situations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and plan activities for children/young people.
• Train staff in necessary clinical skills.
• Provide support at the end-of-life stage.

Skills

Experience in children's nursing

Training skills

Ability to manage complex health needs

Education

Relevant nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Children's Community Nursing Team in Knowsley for an experienced/skilled and passionate Clinical Team Leader.

We are looking to recruit a Clinical Team Leader to manage and support the team in providing high quality care to children, young people and their families with complex health needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in service development of the team, the post holder will work closely with the wider Children, Young People and Families (CYP) teams within the St Helens, Knowsley and Mid-Mersey area.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The post consists of being a key worker, sharing your knowledge within the team to junior staff, developing a strong therapeutic relationship with the CYP and their families, and empowering the CYP and their families to lead and take ownership of their own health plans/needs.

The team you will be joining is a well-established team within Knowsley and who have developed good working relationships across Knowsley with local stakeholders. They have recently attained a good plus throughout all areas and pride themselves on keeping the trust values and morals at the forefront of the daily working day.

We will ensure that you have access to training and the appropriate knowledge, clinical skills, competence, and confidence required to deliver child-specific to the needs of our caseload population.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to perfect care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage complex activities and programmes that require constant adjustment to meet the changing needs of children/young people.
• Use additional equipment the child/young person may require on a daily basis, or in an emergency.
• Have an awareness of the support required for children/young people with tracheostomies.
• Care of children/young people requiring urinary catheters and PEG feeds in the school and community settings in line with a competency framework.
• Be a trainer in specific areas of clinical expertise to train new team members as well as school staff when appropriate.
• Facilitate training from specialist nurses for education staff for the children/young people when appropriate.
• Support the child/young person, families and carers at the end-of-life stage including bereavement.

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025