# Integrated Children’s Community Nursing Team Matron > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-childrens-community-nursing-team-matron/f5cde227-4720-4f53-b778-4d33c005a3f7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-childrens-community-nursing-team-matron/f5cde227-4720-4f53-b778-4d33c005a3f7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Alder Hey Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Matron - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday to Friday - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-11-02T09:41:10.514Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Alder_Hey_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Nursing/Community_Nursing-v8405332 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8405332?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.alderhey.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting time to join the Neighbourhood, Public & Mental Health System as it continues to grow and develop clinical services. Following progression of the current Matron to Head of Nursing, we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, dedicated, and passionate senior nurse to join our team as the Matron for the Integrated Children's Community Nursing Team (ICCNT). The post holder will ensure co-operation and cohesion between the service’s community nursing team, ensuring a seamless, positive experience of care for children and their families, which transcends community and hospital-based care. Involvement in the development of Integrated Community pathways to promote hospital avoidance, admission and early discharge is key to this role. The post holder will provide strong leadership across the system enabling efficient coordination of safe and skilled multi professional involvement ensuring that the trust has robust, sustainable, effective governance systems and processes which comply with best practice. The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Director of Nursing & AHP's to develop new and creative pathways to bring care closer to home in line with the Trusts 2030 Vision. Furthermore, the Matron will promote a culture of continuous quality improvement within all areas of the system/organisation to ensure best practice is achieved in the delivery of high-quality patient care for children, young people, and their families. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will provide clinical leadership and be accountable for the management, delivery, and development of the Integrated Children’s Community Nursing Team, which provides nursing care in the community to children with acute/short term illness, those with complex health needs and disabilities, or with long term conditions, as well as those with life limiting conditions who may require end of life care. Develop the service to, as a minimum, meet pertinent professional and national standards, including those concerned with workforce development and planning. Lead on the development of the virtual ward and linked workstreams. This involves liaison with Innovation and external stakeholders, Assume overall responsibility for the quality of the service, as experienced by children, their families and by colleagues. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to priorities and organise own workload - Enthusiastic and highly motivated - Excellent presentation skills - Excellent communication skills. - Demonstrates the ability to make sound judgements and generate new ideas in complex situations. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Specialist knowledge of professional and national standards pertaining to children’s community nursing - Trust and National Safeguarding Policies and Guidelines - The Children’s Continuing Care Framework ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience and clinical expertise within Community/ Complex Care. - Budget management experience - At least 3 years of working at a senior nurse/ AHP level (band 7) in a leadership role - Experience of managing and developing teams - Recent experience of internal/external partnership working at senior level. **Desirable** - Evidence of working across several clinical disciplines ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registration with NMC RN (child) - Specialist Practitioner (Community) Degree or educational equivalent - Teaching and assessing qualification **Desirable** - Management/ Leadership Degree ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Able to work autonomously - Flexible and willing to commit to achieving results and meeting deadlines - Promotes an environment of continuous learning and staff involvement in decision making ## Documents - [jd/spec (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10737161) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.