Job Description

Are you a highly skilled, visible and committed Children's Community Nurse? We are looking for someone who is passionate about making a difference to the health and well-being of children and young people in our community, whilst supporting and inspiring the nursing team to provide high quality care.



This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead an innovative and dynamic Community Children's Nursing team which is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley & Greenwich. You will be leading a team that provides high quality specialist child-centred nursing care, in community settings and the child's own home. The service provision includes Asthma, Sickle Cell and Hospital at Home.



The post holder will work in close partnership with the other Matron to provide visible clinical leadership to ensure that Children and Young people and their families/carers receive high quality, evidence-based care. They will be accountable for upholding standards and quality, ensuring a positive patient experience, maintaining patient safety, and promoting clinical effectiveness within the service.



Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.



We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.



Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:



We're Kind



We're Fair



We Listen



We Care



The Matrons will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the Children's Community Nursing (CCN), Hospital at Home (H@H), Asthma (including Respiratory Hub) and Sickle Cell service. Each Matron will have specific areas for which they are responsible and accountable for, within the overall service. The role includes supervision of senior nurses.