CCN Team Leader Band 7

Job details

• Branch: Armagh & Dungannon area (SHSCT)
• Location: St Luke's Hosp-Hill Building
• Directorate: Children & Young People's Services
• Salary: Band 7 (£47,810 - £54,710)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Opening Date: 02/10/26
• Closes: Fri, 16 October 2026 @ 4:00 PM
• Interview Dates: TBC

Notes

Online and manual applications accepted. Important Information If you are submitting a manual application, please post it to: Recruitment Shared Services, Rosewood Villa, Longstone Hospital Site, 73 Loughgall Road, Armagh, BT61 7PR. Applications received after the advertised closing date/time cannot be considered, so please allow enough time for postage. A waiting list may be created for similar posts that may arise while the waiting list is live, this may include temporary or part-time posts. This will be managed in line with the updated HSC waiting list principles effective from 1 April 2026. Where a part-time waiting list is required, one part-time waiting list will be created- regardless of any specific hours advertised, this waiting list will cover all future vacancies where part-time posts arise. A part-time post is defined as any post that has less than 37.5 hours per week. Please remember to save or print a copy of the job description before submitting your application, as it will not be accessible afterwards. Flexible Working We welcome flexible working requests from day one. All HSC organisations offer a range of flexible working options. The options available for this post will depend on the requirements of the role. Find out more about flexible working options on our website.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

Community Children’s Nursing Team Leader (Armagh & Dungannon)

BAND

Band 7

DIRECTORATE

Children & Young People’s Service

INITIAL LOCATION

Hill Building, Armagh

REPORTS TO

Lead Nurse for Community Children’s Nursing Service

ACCOUNTABLE TO

Head of Service; Community Paediatrics, Community Children’s Nursing and Specialist Services.

JOB SUMMARY

To provide clinical leadership and support for a mixed skill Community Children’s Nursing Team, ensuring high quality service provision to children with nursing needs at home and in other community settings, and their families. The post holder will fulfil general management responsibilities for a designated Community Children’s Nursing Team including nurses, Health Care Workers and administrative staff.

Maintain clinical competence and deliver clinical care to children and young people.

Promote and monitor safe, effective child and family centred care.

Support the Lead Nurse to ensure delivery and development of service based on assessed need and in line with strategic direction.

Support the coordination of discharges and transitions for children with complex nursing needs to include initial hospital discharge, and subsequent transitions between hospital, home, and school and between different services and directorates, ensuring excellent communication, robust interagency working and timely discharge/transition arrangements.

Develop partnership approaches with Children’s Disability Social Work teams, Medical and Allied Health Professionals and pursue networking opportunities across professional, organisational boundaries and with voluntary bodies.

KEY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Professional Responsibilities

Comply with NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Ensure practice reflects the standards set in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives.

Comply with NMC requirements to ensure continuing professional development.

Comply with Regional Safeguarding Policies and Procedures and ensure Trust Policies and Procedures for safeguarding are adhered to.

Leadership and People Management

Provide day to day management of a mixed skilled Community Children’s Nursing Team.

Work in partnership with staff and support the Lead Nurse with the implementation of the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery Strategy.

Ensure effective communication within the team.

Promote good staff relationships and team morale through staff engagement, effective feedback, recognition and appreciation.

Observe for signs of ill health or stress in staff and take appropriate action.

Ensure prompt and efficient procedures for monitoring and management of sick leave are implemented according to Trust policy.

Ensure systems are in place to provide managerial cover for the Community Children’s Nursing Team during periods of e.g. annual leave or study leave.

Participate in selection and interviewing panels as required.

Participate in disciplinary/ grievance/capability procedures as per Trust guidelines.

Service Delivery

Plan and implement duty rotas and annual leave arrangements within existing resources, to ensure an appropriate skill mix to deliver care based on assessed need.

Undertake ongoing caseload review and ensure fair and equitable caseload allocation.

Oversee and support staff to manage and review packages of care and short break provision.

Support the co-ordination and facilitation of Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings required to assess, plan, implement and review care of children on the Community Children’s Nursing caseload.

Develop robust communication channels ensuring a contact point is available for all staff from the multiple agencies involved in the child’s care.

Quality and Governance

Engage in the Trust’s Strategy for Clinical and Social Governance including participation in standard setting and audit on a uni-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary basis to measure quality and effectiveness of services.

Ensure safe, effective, person centred delegation of nursing tasks and duties.

Identify any early concerns or dissatisfactions that children/families may be experiencing; be proactive in addressing these and ensure appropriate responses and necessary changes are implemented.

Comply with Trust policy in regard to all incidents/complaints and report and record appropriately.

Support the Lead Nurse in the investigation of complaints and formulation of reports.

Take part in, and ensure all team members engage in clinical supervision, staff appraisal and Personal Development Review.

Identify and manage risks and report areas of high risk to Lead Nurse.

Adhere to, and ensure staff are updated and informed of all relevant policies and procedures.

Participate in policy development and review.

Collaborative Working

Participate and promote multidisciplinary working within the team and across all programmes of care.

Liaise with the multidisciplinary team, voluntary agencies and all other relevant personnel on a regular basis to promote and ensure effective communication is maintained and good work practices are facilitated.

In collaboration with the Lead Nurse facilitate service development and contribute to the Business Planning and contracting processes within the Trust.

Clinical Responsibilities

Maintain clinical competence in all aspects of the Community Children’s Nursing role.

Undertake clinical visits as required.

Support Community Children’s Nursing on call rota.

Provide clinical advice and support to staff.

Educational Responsibilities

Identify own educational needs with the Lead Nurse.

Actively encourage the professional and career development of nurses and Health Care Workers.

Undertake training needs analysis to identify training needs to meet existing and developing services.

Facilitate education and training of team members, Health Care Workers and staff in education and other areas as required, ensuring the robust application of competency-based process.

Initiate and facilitate research and quality improvement projects.

Ensure students are facilitated to avail of the range of learning opportunities available, appropriate to the needs of the student and with the consent of the child, young person and parents.

Ensure an induction programme is provided for all new staff and preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses.

Finance and Resource Management

Deliver safe and effective care within allocated resources.

Adhere to financial Policies and Procedures and Trust financial controls

Contribute to budgetary management, including the monitoring of effectiveness of resources and value for money eg, equipment, disposables etc.

Information Management

Ensure accurate and timely completion by the team of all data for information systems.

Human Resource Management Responsibilities

The Trust supports and promotes a culture of collective leadership where those who have responsibility for managing other staff:

Establish and promote a supportive, fair and open culture that encourages and enables all parts of the team to have clearly aligned goals and objectives, to meet the required performance standards and to achieve continuous improvement in the services they deliver.

Ensure access to skills and personal development through appropriate training and support.

Promote a culture of openness and honesty to enable shared learning.

Encourage and empower others in their team to achieve their goals and reach their full potential through regular supportive conversation and shared decision making.

Adhere to and promote Trust policy and procedure in all staffing matters, participating as appropriate in a way which underpins Trust values.

Raising Concerns – Responsibilities

Promote and support effective team working, fostering a culture of openness and transparency.

The post holder will ensure that they take all concerns raised with them seriously and act in accordance with the Trust’s ‘Your Right to Raise

Concern (Whistleblowing)’ policy and their professional code of conduct, where applicable.

Personal and Public Involvement Responsibilities (PPI)

Promote and support the implementation of the Trust’s PPI Strategy and ensure all staff are aware of their responsibilities as appropriate to their job role.

Develop systems to ensure the views of those who use our service influence the development of a total quality culture.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to

Ensure the Trust’s policy on equality of opportunity is promoted through his/her own actions and those of any staff for whom he/she has responsibility.

Co-operate fully with the implementation of the Trust's Health and Safety arrangements, reporting any accidents/incidents/equipment defects to his/her manager, and maintaining a clean, uncluttered and safe environment for patients/clients, members of the public and staff.

Adhere at all times to all Trust policies/codes of conduct, including for example

Smoke Free policy

IT Security Policy and Code of Conduct

Standards of attendance, appearance and behaviour

All employees of the Trust are legally responsible for all records held, created or used as part of their business within the Trust including patients/clients, corporate and administrative records whether paper-based or electronic and also including emails. All such records are public records and are accessible to the general public, with limited exception, under the Freedom of Information act 2000 the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the Data Protection Acts 1998. Employees are required to be conversant with the Trusts policy and procedures on records management and to seek advice if in doubt.

Take responsibility for his/her own ongoing learning and development, including full participation in KSF Development Reviews/appraisals, in order to maximise his/her potential and continue to meet the demands of the post.

Represent the Trust’s commitment to providing the highest possible standard of service to patients/clients and members of the public, by treating all those with whom he/she comes into contact in the course of work, in a pleasant, courteous and respectful manner.

This Job Description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.

It is a standard condition that all Trust staff may be required to serve at any location within the Trust's area, as needs of the service demand.

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE AND BAND

Community Children’s Nursing Team Leader Armagh & Dungannon, Band 7

DEPARTMENT / DIRECTORATE

Community Children’s Nursing, Specialist Child Health & Disability, Children and Young Peoples Directorate

HOURS 37.5 hrs

Notes to applicants

You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria.

Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form. Please note the Trust reserves the right to use any desirable criteria outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting. You must clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet the desirable criteria.

Proof of qualifications and/or professional registration will be required if an offer of employment is made – if you are unable to provide this, the offer may be withdrawn.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

SECTION 1: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will initially be measured at shortlisting stage although may also be further explored during the interview/selection stage. You should therefore make it clear on your application form whether or not you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is stated below.

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Experience

Minimum of 2 years’ experience working as a Community Children’s Nurse at Band 6 or above within the past 5 years (excluding courses).

Shortlisting by Application Form

Qualifications/ Registration

Registered on the live NMC Register Part 1 (Children’s)

BSc Hons Degree Specialist Nursing Practice (CCN option).

Other

Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment.

This criteria will be waived in the case of applicants whose disability prohibits driving but who have access to a form of transport approved by the Trust which will permit them to carry out the duties of the post.

SECTION 2: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will be measured during the interview/ selection stage:

Skills / Abilities

Excellent verbal and written communication skills to meet the needs of the post.

Ability to think critically about management issues relevant to the role.

Experience and evidence of leading service development/new initiatives.

Ability to lead change and provide examples of this.

Leadership and organisational skills.

Ability to work effectively as part of a team.

Flexibility with regard to working arrangements to meet the demands of the post.

Interview

Knowledge

In-depth understanding and knowledge of all issues related to Community Children’s Nursing.

Knowledge of current research relevant to specialty.

Knowledge of professional issues.

Knowledge of current developments and strategic direction.

As part of the Recruitment & Selection process it may be necessary for the Trust to carry out an Enhanced Disclosure Check through Access NI before any appointment to this post can be confirmed.

Successful applicants may be required to attend for a Health Assessment

THE TRUST IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER