Lead Paediatric Nurse

NHS Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Paediatric Nurse to join the paediatric and neonatal team within NHS Scotland. The role involves providing professional nursing leadership, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, and contributing to service transformation and quality improvement within the team and wider NHS system.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in transforming services.
• Member of Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.
• Experience in paediatric and neonatal nursing.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional paediatric nursing advice and leadership.
• Ensure standards of clinical practice and assist with governance.
• Create strategic plans to improve service quality.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Practice

Patient-Centered Care

Governance

Team Support

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Membership in Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join the paediatric and neonatal team as Lead Paediatric Nurse.

We are looking to appoint a motivated Lead Paediatric Nurse with a proven track record of transforming services, who will provide professional paediatric nursing advice, support, and leadership to the team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring standards of clinical practice, assisting with governance, patient experience, patient-centred care, and workforce development to maximise the impact of nursing on service change and quality improvement.

The successful candidate will play a vital role in taking a leadership role and supporting various agendas such as: GIRFEC, Child Protection, Scottish Patient Safety Programme, as agreed within the Women, Children's, and Sexual Health Unit, as well as taking leadership responsibility for one or more streams of work across the wider NHS Forth Valley system.

They will help create strategic plans and improve the quality of services.

This role requires the candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at https://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/pvg-scheme/.

For informal enquiries, please contact Fiona Coan, Head of Nursing Immunisation/Paediatrics, or Annemie Breesch, Service Manager.

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NHS Forth Valley is committed to equality and encourages applications from disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We are positive about disabled applicants and will offer an interview to those who meet the minimum requirements.