Integrated Children’s Community Nursing Team Matron

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Matron for the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team (ICCNT). The post leads clinical care in the community for children with acute illness, complex health needs, or life-limiting conditions, ensuring seamless care across community and hospital settings.

You will drive workforce development, develop integrated pathways, and foster continuous quality improvement in line with the Trust's 2030 Vision, promoting safer care for children

Qualifications

• Registered child nurse with NMC registration.
• Specialist Practitioner in Community Nursing.
• Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Experience in leadership roles.
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team (ICCNT).
• Develop pathways to promote hospital avoidance and early discharge.
• Ensure governance and quality improvement across the system.
• Lead development of the virtual ward and liaise with stakeholders.

Skills

RN (child) Registration

Clinical leadership

Team leadership

Education & teaching

Education

NMC Registration (Child)

Specialist Practitioner (Community) Degree

Teaching & Assessing Qualification

Job description

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team Matron

The closing date is 16 November 2026

This is an exciting time to join the Neighbourhood, Public & Mental Health System as it continues to grow and develop clinical services.

Following progression of the current Matron to Head of Nursing, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated, and passionate senior nurse to join our team as the Matron for the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team (ICCNT).

The post holder will ensure co-operation and cohesion between the service's community nursing team, ensuring a seamless, positive experience of care for children and their families, which transcends community and hospital-based care. Involvement in the development of Integrated Community pathways to promote hospital avoidance, admission and early discharge is key to this role.

The post holder will provide strong leadership across the system enabling efficient coordination of safe and skilled multi professional involvement ensuring that the trust has robust, sustainable, effective governance systems and processes which comply with best practice.

The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Director of Nursing & AHP's to develop new and creative pathways to bring care closer to home in line with the Trusts 2030 Vision. Furthermore, the Matron will promote a culture of continuous quality improvement within all areas of the system/organisation to ensure best practice is achieved in the delivery of high-quality patient care for children, young people, and their families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and be accountable for the management, delivery, and development of the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team, which provides nursing care in the community to children with acute/short term illness, those with complex health needs and disabilities, or with long term conditions, as well as those with life limiting conditions who may require end of life care.

Develop the service to, as a minimum, meet pertinent professional and national standards, including those concerned with workforce development and planning.

Lead on the development of the virtual ward and linked workstreams. This involves liaison with Innovation and external stakeholders,

Assume overall responsibility for the quality of the service, as experienced by children, their families and by colleagues.

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Job responsibilities

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and be accountable for the management, delivery, and development of the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team, which provides nursing care in the community to children with acute/short term illness, those with complex health needs and disabilities, or with long term conditions, as well as those with life limiting conditions who may require end of life care.

Develop the service to, as a minimum, meet pertinent professional and national standards, including those concerned with workforce development and planning.

Lead on the development of the virtual ward and linked workstreams. This involves liaison with Innovation and external stakeholders,

Assume overall responsibility for the quality of the service, as experienced by children, their families and by colleagues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with NMC RN (child)
• Specialist Practitioner (Community) Degree or educational equivalent
• Teaching and assessing qualification

Experience

• Extensive experience and clinical expertise within Community/ Complex Care.
• At least 3 years of working at a senior nurse/ AHP level (band 7) in a leadership role
• Experience of managing and developing teams
• Recent experience of internal/external partnership working at senior level.
• Evidence of working across several clinical disciplines

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge of professional and national standards pertaining to children's community nursing
• Trust and National Safeguarding Policies and Guidelines
• The Children's Continuing Care Framework

Skills

• Ability to priorities and organise own workload
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated
• Excellent presentation skills
• Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgements and generate new ideas in complex situations.

Personal Attributes

• Able to work autonomously
• Flexible and willing to commit to achieving results and meeting deadlines
• Promotes an environment of continuous learning and staff involvement in decision making

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.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust