Lead Paediatric Nurse

NHS Ayrshire & Arran; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Ayrshire & Arran is seeking a Lead Paediatric Nurse to oversee the paediatric and neonatal team, ensuring high standards of clinical practice and leading quality improvement initiatives. This role involves strategic planning and collaboration across the NHS system, making a significant impact on patient care.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in transforming paediatric services.
• Strong governance and patient-centered care knowledge.
• Ability to create strategic plans and improve service quality.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing advice, support, and leadership.
• Ensure standards of clinical practice are maintained.
• Lead initiatives for quality improvement across the service.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Practice

Quality Improvement

Education

Nursing Degree

PVG Scheme Membership

Job description

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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/leadership to the team. You will be responsible for ensuring standards of clinical practice, assist with governance, patient experience, patient centred care and workforce development are in place to maximise the impact of nursing on service change and quality improvement.

The successful candidate will play a vital role in to taking a leadership role and support 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.

The successful candidate will help us to create strategic plans and improve the quality of services.

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk

For informal enquiries, please contact Fiona Coan ([e-mail]), Head of Nursing Immunisation/Paediatrics or Annemie Breesch, Service Manager ([e-mail]).

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail, therefore please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders) and your Jobtrain account for updates.

NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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