Team Leader - PATCH CCN

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the Patch Children’s Community Nursing team as a Team Leader. The role involves leading a team in providing specialist nursing care for children with long-term conditions such as asthma and eczema, ensuring the delivery of high-quality healthcare in community settings. The position offers leadership responsibilities and the chance to innovate within children's health services in Lambeth and Southwark.

Benefits

Innovative quality improvement programme

Supportive multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Experience managing asthma, eczema, or constipation in children.
• Autonomous practitioner experience in community settings or primary care.
• Ability to provide specialist nursing care.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of nurses providing high-quality specialist nursing care to children at home.
• Develop and implement seamless community nursing service delivery.
• Contribute to clinical practice, research, and policy development.

Skills

Organisational skills

Time management

Communication skills

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

Are you a highly motivated paediatric nurse with leadership experience, an interest in managing asthma, eczema, or constipation and a passion for providing patient care in autonomous nurse led clinics? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Patch Children’s Community Nursing (CCN) team as a Team Leader.

The Children's Community Nursing Service includes the Children’s Hospital at home, Community nursing, PATCH and Complex Needs Nursing teams which manage a range of childhood conditions. Children benefit from the expertise of the hospital in the comfort and safety of their own home, school and a variety of other community settings. We have a dynamic team of highly skilled nurses who facilitate early discharge of children from hospital as well as prevent hospital admissions and ED attendance.

The Patch CCN team was developed as part of the Children and Young People’s Health Partnership (CYPHP), an innovative quality improvement programme aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of children in Lambeth and Southwark. Our team provides community-based care to children and young people with three ongoing conditions: asthma, eczema, and constipation.

We utilise a population-based approach to healthcare and employ progressive technology to deliver services through community clinics located across multiple sites in Lambeth and Southwark.

Closing Date: 7th July 2025

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated Team leader who has a special interest or experience in the management of these long-term conditions.

Applicants will have worked as an autonomous practitioner within the community setting and/or primary care previously. Excellent organisational, time management and communication skills are required to support and lead this forward-thinking team of experienced nurses. The post holder will be a highly visible senior nurse and as such expected to provide specialist knowledge, advice/support, and clinical expertise to the team.

The post holder will work as an autonomous expert practitioner with

responsibility for leading a team of nurses who will provide high quality

specialist nursing care to children at home and community settings.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary nursing team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless Children’s community nursing service delivery within the Acute Children’s Community Nursing Service with a focus on ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the team and contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues and stakeholders.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Wade Job title: Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0747 102 1181

Beth Abraham, Lead Nurse

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