Job overview
Make a difference for Children, Young People and Families!
Are you a Children’s Nurse with substantial experience at a senior level looking for the next step in your career?
Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for children and young people?
If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint an ambitious and compassionate Matron for our Community Children’s Service; to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.
The Community Children’s Nurse Service provide specialist services for; Continuing Care, Community Children’s Nurse for short intervention & chronic conditions (SICC), Diabetes, Epilepsy, Special Educational Needs team (SENT) and virtual ward.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Be highly visible.
- Be clinically credible.
- Be committed to developing and transforming services.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community settings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:
- Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services
- Workforce management
- Finance and budgeting.
- Education and development
- Patient flow
- Performance management
- Digital technology
- Evidence based Practice and Research
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with children
- Experience of service development
- Experience of quality & safety
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Childrens nurse
- Registered with NMC
Desirable
- MSc
Leadership/Management
Essential
- Evidence of performance management; PDRs, supervision,
- Experience of recruitment
- Experience of sickness absence management
- Excellent written skills
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This advert is for Matron Children's Community Nurse Service with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust in West Bromwich, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse (community and district) role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Aug 2026.
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