# Team Leader - Community Paediatrics > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/team-leader-community-paediatrics/359d856d-8925-4ca6-9338-b14c891e777b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/team-leader-community-paediatrics/359d856d-8925-4ca6-9338-b14c891e777b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stafford - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum/pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term - 12 months) - **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T10:21:41.461Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Stafford/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Team_Leader_Community_Paediatrics/Team_Leader_Community_Paediatrics-v8126240 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8126240?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn We are looking for an experienced and motivated Community Paediatrics Team Leader to provide operational, clinical and professional leadership within our Children's Care Group. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, child and family-centred community paediatric services across a variety of settings. You will work closely with the Service Manager, Professional Lead and system partners to ensure safe, effective and responsive services that improve outcomes for children and young people. Combining expert clinical practice with compassionate leadership, you will support service development, quality improvement and workforce development while promoting a positive team culture. This role is ideal for an individual who is passionate about leading change, developing staff and ensuring children, young people and families receive outstanding community care. ### Main duties of the job As Team Leader you will provide day-to-day operational and clinical leadership for the Community Paediatrics team, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality services. You will lead, motivate and develop registered, non-registered and administrative staff through supervision, appraisal, professional development and workforce planning. You will oversee service delivery, manage caseload allocation and triage, monitor performance, quality, governance and risk, and work collaboratively to deliver continuous service improvement. You will contribute to strategic planning, implement evidence-based practice and ensure compliance with national guidance, professional standards and Trust policies. Working in partnership with health, education, social care and voluntary sector colleagues, you will provide specialist advice, support integrated working and contribute to improving outcomes for children and families. You will also maintain your own advanced clinical expertise, support complex clinical decision-making when required, and champion a culture of learning, innovation, safeguarding and continuous quality improvement. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The successful candidate will provide visible leadership to the Community Paediatrics team, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, governance, patient safety and staff wellbeing. You will manage workforce performance, recruitment, sickness absence, annual leave, supervision, appraisal and mandatory training, ensuring staff are supported to achieve their full potential. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating team activity, managing changing priorities and responding effectively to operational pressures while maintaining high-quality care. You will work collaboratively with the Service Manager, Professional Lead and wider Children's Care Group to develop services, implement quality improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic objectives across the organisation and wider health system. The role includes providing specialist clinical expertise, supporting complex assessments and clinical decision-making where appropriate, participating in referral triage and ensuring effective workload management across the team. You will lead on clinical governance, audit, risk management, policy implementation and service evaluation, using data and evidence to drive continuous improvement. Excellent communication and partnership-working skills are essential as you will work closely with acute providers, education, social care, local authorities and voluntary organisations. You will manage sensitive conversations relating to safeguarding, complex needs and family support with professionalism and compassion. This is a varied and rewarding leadership role requiring resilience, initiative and the ability to balance operational management with clinical credibility. The post involves working across community settings, including travel between clinics, schools and family homes, with occasional lone working as required. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of leadership training - Experience in NHS - Management of - Risk/Staff/Budgets/Performance/Capacity and activity planning - Leading service transformation within a team. - Implementing innovative solutions within a team environment. - Negotiation and conflict (clinical situations) **Desirable** - Project work - Worked in healthcare setting - Significant experience managing and implementing change ### Qualifications and Education **Essential** - Post-registration experience/ evidence of formal courses/training post graduate - First level professional nursing or midwifery **Desirable** - Masters or evidence of relevant postgraduate training in relevant to area ### Knowledhe/personal attributes **Essential** - Knowledge of Health/Social Care legislation, policies, objectives day to day - Information Governance, Data Protection, HCPC/NMC standards - Safeguarding vulnerable Adults and Children. - Knowledge of relevant NSF’s and NICE guidance - Ability to travel - Commitment to high-quality effective patient care and role model - Able to cope under pressure and provide - Project management skills and quality improvement - Reflective practitioner/develop own competence and support others ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [person spec, team leader community paeds (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10423019) - [job description team leader community paeds (pdf, 841.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10423020) ## 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.