Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details, in order to fully understand the requirements of the role.

Qualifications & Professional Registration

Essential

• NMC registration (Child branch or RN with significant paediatric experience)
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience
• Post-registration specialist paediatric critical care education (Level 2/3)
• Teaching, assessing or mentorship qualification (e.g., SLiP/Practice Assessor)
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of an NMC revalidation or equivalent

Desirable

• Master's level study or working towards
• Leadership or management qualification / accredited training

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Extensive post-registration experience in paediatric nursing
• Significant experience in Paediatric Critical Care (Level 2 care minimum)
• Experience coordinating complex or long-stay discharges
• Experience working with MDTs, community teams, and external agencies
• In-depth understanding of PCC Levels of Care
• Comprehensive knowledge of discharge planning and patient flow
• Understanding of national PCC standards, ODN functions, ICS structures
• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, risk management
• Experience supervising and supporting staff and teams

Desirable

• Experience working across systems/ICBs/ODNs
• Experience developing guidelines, pathways, or nurse-led initiatives
• Experience leading or chairing MDT meetings/case conferences
• Experience in transition (neonatal->paediatrics; paediatrics->adult)
• Knowledge of SORT/specialist paediatric transport processes
• Knowledge of commissioning, continuing care, SEND pathways
• Experience in service improvement, audit, quality initiatives

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Highly developed communication, negotiation, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Ability to convey complex or sensitive information with empathy, experience working in emotionally charged/highly sensitive situations
• Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Excellent organisational and leadership skills; able to prioritise and escalate to resolve flow and capacity decisions
• Ability to advocate for children, young people, and families
• Confident IT literacy including electronic patient records
• Teaching, coaching, and staff development skills
• Experience managing complaints or investigations
• Ability to participate in audit, benchmarking, complex data collection and analysis
• Ability to develop and evaluate pathways or policies

Desirable

• Experience leading / co-ordinating multi-agency meetings

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Able to demonstrate the ability to put patients and their families and carers at the heart of what you do and recognising different needs by encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork.
• Shows pride in the quality of care they provide for patients and learning from successes and setbacks.
• Able to deliver a high standard of care for patients and always striving to improve on what you do through change and innovation.
• Able to proactively support colleagues in the delivery of care commensurate with Trust values and behaviours

Personal Qualities and Skills

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly across BOB ICS and TVW PCC ODN areas, travelling independently across sites
• Committed to professional development and high standards of practice.
• Motivated and able to articulate reasons for desire to work in the specific practice area
• Being self-aware and able to accept constructive criticism to allow learning and development
• A positive role model with an enthusiastic disposition.
• Resilient under pressure

Desirable

• Ability to represent the service at regional/national forums

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).