Job summary

Our Adult Community Teams are looking to recruit Registered Nurses to join our Bank workforce, supporting a range of community services across West Sussex, this role offers the opportunity to gain experience across different teams and settings within community care.

Are you looking for a flexible and varied role, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in a highly diverse and rewarding environment. Working on the bank allows you to gain experience across multiple community services, supporting patient care in a variety of settings while maintaining flexibility in your working hours.

Community nursing provides a unique opportunity to deliver holistic care to patients in their own homes and local communities, often encompassing a wide range of clinical areas within one role.

What we offer

• Flexible bank shifts across multiple teams and services
• Exposure to a broad range of community nursing specialities
• A supportive and experienced multidisciplinary environment
• An individualised induction plan to support your transition into community workin

West Sussex Service Locations:

• Crawley Hospital, RH11 7DH,
• Horsham Hospital, Hurst Road Horsham RH12 2DR
• Worthing Hospital Lyndhusrt Rd, Worthing, BN11 2DH
• Bognor WM Hospital, Shripney Rd, Bognor Regis, PO22 9PP
• Arundel Hospital Chichester Road Arundel BN18 0A
• Hayworthe Villa, RH16 1DB

More locations in West Sussex available.

Main duties of the job

We provide a highly supportive approach with all staff to gain the competencies required for the role.

Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role may not be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes - GOV.UK

Health and Care Worker visa: If you'll need to meet different salary requirements - GOV.UK

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

Our Adult Community Teams are looking to recruit Registered Nurses to join our Bank workforce, supporting a range of community services across East Sussex, this role offers the opportunity to gain experience across different teams and settings within community care.

Are you looking for a flexible and varied role, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in a highly diverse and rewarding environment. Working on the bank allows you to gain experience across multiple community services, supporting patient care in a variety of settings while maintaining flexibility in your working hours.

Community nursing provides a unique opportunity to deliver holistic care to patients in their own homes and local communities, often encompassing a wide range of clinical areas within one role.

What we offer

• Flexible bank shifts across multiple teams and services
• Exposure to a broad range of community nursing specialities
• A supportive and experienced multidisciplinary environment
• An individualised induction plan to support your transition into community workin

• Crowborough, Southview Road, Crowborough, East Sussex TN6 1HB
• Uckfield Community Hospital Framfield Road Uckfield East Sussex TN22 5AW
• Lewes Victoria Hospital, Nevill Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1PE
• Chailey - Beggars Wood Road BN8 4JN
• Brighton and Hove Intermediate Care Unit Laburnum Ave Hove BN3 7JW
• Hove, BN3 7HY
• Healthfield Community Health Centre TN21 0XG
• Kleinwort Centre Butlers Green Road Haywards Heath West Sussex

Main duties of the job

We provide a highly supportive approach with all staff to gain the competencies required for the role.

Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role may not be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes - GOV.UK

Health and Care Worker visa: If you'll need to meet different salary requirements - GOV.UK

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

Looking for a kind, caring and compassionate Nurse to join our friendly Community Nursing Team.

Our team have been commended on the supportive environment we provide and for the development opportunities available.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our multidisciplinary community team as a Community Sister/ Charge Nurse / District Nurse. This post is offered on a permanentcontract. This includes coordinating and delegating individual patient care by working across boundaries within secondary and social care settings. The role is that of a caseload holder, providing clinical case management for patients with complex health needs who are at risk of deterioration which may result in declining quality of life, avoidable hospital admissions, or an unnecessary length of hospital stay.

The successful applicant will be based in Haywards Heath and will be expected to drive to the surrounding areas within our remit.

Main duties of the job

Community Sister/Charge Nurse / District Nurse

Some of your main duties will include (but not exclusive to)

a) In conjunction with other key professionals you will be accountable for a patient caseload and delegate responsibility to other professionals within the multidisciplinary team.

b) To apply advanced assessment of physical, mental and social care needs to provide clinical care and health promoting interventions that help avoidunnecessary hospital admission.

c) To interpret clinical signs and symptoms and diagnostic tests in order todevelop a treatment plan and /or treatment in conjunction with medicalpractitioners as appropriate. Provide advanced clinical advice to the widerhealthcare team to improve outcomes of patient care.

d) Enable patients to be as independent as possible facilitating a range of self management strategies.

e) Ability to develop and analyse audit, interpret data and use findings toenhance clinical practice.

f) Driving between patient home visits. Please see the attached job description for full details.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

The Adur Community Primary Care Network Team is looking to recruit a Registered Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team based in Lancing, providing care to housebound patients across the Adur locality.

Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced nurse seeking a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a rewarding and varied role, including wound care, long-term condition management, palliative care, catheter care, safeguarding, and care home support.

Successful applicants will receive a structured induction programme and ongoing support to develop their skills and confidence within the community setting.

We encourage prospective applicants to research both the community nursing role and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and be prepared to demonstrate how their skills, values, and experience make them suitable for this opportunity.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Community Nurse within the Adur PCN Team, you will provide high-quality nursing care to housebound patients in their own homes and care home settings. Duties include:

• Assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of patient care.
• Wound assessment and management.
• Catheter and continence care.
• Administration of medication, including insulin where competent.
• Supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs.
• Delivering palliative and end-of-life care.
• Safeguarding adults and raising concerns where appropriate.
• Working collaboratively with GPs, therapists, care homes and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Supporting hospital discharge and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to care planning.

You will receive support and development opportunities to build your community nursing skills and progress your career within a friendly and experienced team.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

Our innovative and dynamic Immunisation teams are dedicated to improving immunisation uptake and delivering the national evidence-based Schools' Immunisation Programmes. We are hiring a registered nurse to work 14 hours per week, on an annualised contract, working 42 weeks a year. The applicant must a full UK driving license and access to a car during their working day.

The role encompasses responsibility for clinical delivery of vaccinations and patient safety, specialist advice on immunisation issues, and the opportunity to develop skills in both independent and team working.

We welcome applicants who can demonstrate a willingness to work flexibly and cooperatively with colleagues both within their own team and the wider multidisciplinary teams across the whole SCFT area. You will need to be motivated, conscientious and committed to supporting us to maintain high vaccination coverage across Sussex.

The team visits several schools across the county every day, so you would be likely to visit a different school each day during school term time and carry out catch-up clinics during the school holidays. We currently offer HPV and Teenage booster vaccinations in secondary schools and nasal spray flu vaccinations to eligible cohorts within schools. We also offer the neonatal BCG programme and other immunisations, such as MMR in clinic.

Main duties of the job

The ideal candidates will deliver a high quality immunisation service within a variety of settings in the community working with patients and other partners to increase immunisation rates.They will also participate in the day to day immunisation sessions/clinics determined by the Immunisation Nurse Specialist and when required, motivate people to have immunisations.

Please note: This is a part-time role and due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes - GOV.UK

Health and Care Worker visa: If you'll need to meet different salary requirements - GOV.UK

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

Bognor Regis Central PCN Community Team is looking for a registered nurse to join the team.

If you are newly registered or looking for a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a great opportunity to specialise in a highly diverse and rewarding field. Community nursing offers the applicants many specialties in one role.

Any successful applicants will have an individual induction plan to ease into this community environment.

As this is a part-time fixed-term role, please note:

Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on thegov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes - GOV.UK

Health and Care Worker visa: If you'll need to meet different salary requirements - GOV.UK

Main duties of the job

On the Person Specification their are some of the competencies and expectations you will either have or need to develop if you were successful. The main aspects of the role are diabetic management, wound management including leg ulcers diagnosis and treatment and palliative care. Also bladder and bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.

As well as the traditional type of patients as stated above, we work in partnership with the local health and social providers covering a specific group of people under frailty.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job summary

Currently the service provides community nursing for children and young people with acute andlong term conditions, complex needs, and palliative care, including end of life care. The children and young people can present with acute illness in addition to requiring skilled nursing intervention to manage highly complex health and developmental needs throughout childhood and at transition to adult services.

The CYPCNS works closely with social care, education and third sector organisations to implement the statutory requirements of the Children and Families Act 2014, and we are actively involved with partners in developing children and young people's urgent care pathways. Our CYPCNS offers innovation, partnership and excellence in community care and we are highly committed to active ongoing engagement with children and families to shape and improve services. We aspire to be what children, families and our partners need us to be to enable the very best health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Registered Nurse to join our well-established CYPCN team as a Band 6 Children and Young People's Community Nurse. This post will be based in Chichester at the Westhampnett Centre.

This is a challenging but highly rewarding role, and the post holder will be supporting the Team Lead with caseload and local service management.

Main duties of the job

• Manage the delivery of quality nursing care, support, information and advice, for a delegated CCNT caseload, helping to ensure that appropriate resources are available to assist in providing this care.
• Support and educate staff offering clinical specialist knowledge and skills for the delivery of nursing care for children in the CCNT caseload.
• Maintain excellent communication channels with service stakeholders.
• Multi-disciplinary team working and liaison
• Help develop, implement and review clinical protocols and standard operating procedures which assist in delivering safe care and best nursing practice.
• Develop clinical skills and knowledge within the team, ensuring the relevant clinical skills required for management of safe nursing care are maintained.
• Provide teaching regarding the use of equipment and treatment regimes in the community for children, families/carers and staff involved.
• Excellent record keeping.
• Act as a resource and role model of children's community nursing specialist practice to all other professionals and work colleagues.
• Attend essential and relevant clinical practice updates in tertiary centres and special interest groups both within the Trust, locally and nationally to help develop and contribute towards establishment of clinical practice standards.

• Support the Team Lead with caseload and staff management.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for a highly motivated, innovative and experienced Nursing Head of Service to join the divisional leadership team of the Children's Community Nursing within the Community Care division.

The Clinical Head of Service will demonstrate strong professional clinical leadership and provide specialist clinical advice across the services within their portfolio. Acting in support of the Divisional and Deputy Divisional AHP/Nurse Directors, the post holder will be a member of the divisional leadership team and work as a triumvirate with the other AHP Clinical Heads of Service and the Operational Head of Service.

The post holder will support the Divisional and Deputy Divisional AHP/Nurse Directors to continually improve equitable patient care, experience, access and outcomes and assist with the implementation of national and Trust initiatives working closely with the other Heads of Service.

The postholder will play a key role in developing the service to meet the population's needs at locality and regional level and will have a service development portfolio and clinical leadership role. They will ensure services provide safe, effective, personalised and evidence-based clinical interventions and holistic care.

Main duties of the job

Work with the divisional management team and Heads of Service to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Division, ensuring that a framework is in place to ensure that all clinical staff are appropriately managed and are clinically and professionally developed so that they are, therefore, efficient, effective, engaged and highly motivated.Responsible, with the leadership team, for the oversight of quality governance within the division and provide robust assurance to demonstrate safe, effective care is delivered.In partnership with the relevant clinical executive director and the clinical divisional leadership team and other clinical Heads of Services, lead and implement the Trust's clinical priorities and strategies ensuring clinical staff are engaged and connected to the objectives and plans.Support the clinical lead to supervise clinical areas requiring special management measures or additional support to ensure that patient safety is maintained, and improvement objectives are met.Lead and promote an open learning culture which facilitates speaking up and listening up.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Details

Date posted

04 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£66,582 to £77,368 a year Per annum/pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

150-KB2925-CC-A

Job locations

Brighton General Hospital

Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

OperationalIn conjunction with the Divisional and Deputy Nursing Director, support the line management of Nurses working in the service within their locality including performance and professional standards management.Ensure a consistent approach is taken, so that all clinical staff comply with Trust-wide policies and procedures.

Continuous improvementEnsure clinical staff within the services are trained to an appropriate level in Quality Improvement and are confident and competent to use QI methodology, tools and resources.Encourage a culture of innovation, welcoming ideas for improvement, and supporting clinicians with taking forward change, ensuring it is data-driven, responds to the patient voice and leads to improved outcomes for patients, efficiency and productivity.Support the development of a data led approach to improvement and evaluation. Contribute to the collation and use of clinical data and be involved in subsequent improvements required, relating to outcome/quality/performance indicators.Lead on research for the services in their portfolio, encouraging and supporting the development of programmes of research ensuring a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional approach and working closely with the Trusts research team.Responsible for ensuring that Divisional clinical staff understand and effectively respond to identified trends from complaints, and patient feedback, ensuring that opportunities to learn are maximised.Ensure systems are in place that support the delivery of action plans, embedding learning into practice and sharing learning and improvement.To undertake special projects, which develop the understanding and knowledge of clinical nursing practice.

People and professional leadershipTo provide line management to staff within the Divisional team as required.To provide professional leadership and support to the staff employed within the Division and advise on all professional and clinical management matters, acting as a point of escalation for issues of concern.To work closely with the Education team and take responsibility and accountability for developing and implementing professional competencies in specific areas of practice as service requirements and change in workforce profile dictates.To work with the leadership team on the development, implementation and evaluation of workforce requirements and support the recruitment and retention, training and development of staff.To proactively manage matters relating to poor capability or poor performance ensuring that Trust performance management systems are adhered to.To maintain an analytical knowledge and awareness of local and national health care issues, such as NICE Guidance, Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults and the Care Quality Commission.

Patient Care, Quality and GovernanceRespond to issues, complaints and feedback through systems and staff to resolve issues promptly and locally, including liaison with patients and relatives as needed, dealing with difficult issues sensitively.Ensuring that patient and public involvement is integral to the planning, development and delivery of clinical services. Work closely with representative groups to gain feedback on service delivery issues which can be used to inform improvement.Lead and support relevant staff in the investigation and action planning into clinical incidents, ensuring learning is shared and embedded.Work with the Heads of Service to be accountable for the implementation and monitoring of actions from governance, quality and safety group that relate to the clinical area within the span of responsibility.

Provide clinical leadership to governance meetings, either as a chair or member as required.To lead programmes of work to demonstrate improvements in practice and ensure that patients can have confidence in the services, actively seeking the views of patients and public.To ensure robust systems, monitoring and follow-up action is in place regarding infection, prevention and control.To implement the Trusts Risk Management Strategy, proactively identifying, recording and managing clinical risk.To ensure Health and Safety standards are adhered to within the Division and staff are appropriately trained to enable them to undertake their duties safely and without unnecessary risk.Present highly complex information to large groups of staff or members of the public, this may include reconciling conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding.

PerformanceWithin the triumvirate support the management of the performance of services, including developing plans to mitigate risks and taking remedial action, supporting clinicians to make changes as required to pathways, access and ways of working to improve.

Finance & resourcesTo ensure optimum use of resources establishing and maintaining effective processes to ensure financial control/balance to deliver the service and professional objectives in line with commissioned activity, budgeted income and financial frameworks.With the Heads of Service, ensure bank and agency spend is within the agreed control limits, appropriate authorisation of exceptions to maintain patient safety and safe, cost-effective rostering.

PartnershipUtilising own clinical expertise and experience work in partnership with the patient, their relatives, and clinical teams within own division and across other divisions in the development of care pathways to provide assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality seamless care.To engage and work collaboratively with patients and with other stakeholder groups (for example, neighbourhood forums, expert patient groups and local authority consultative forums) to improve the patient experience, and to ensure appropriate advice, guidance, or ancillary services are provided to patients, relatives, or carers.Represent the Trust with partner organisations and work closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interest of patient care.Establish excellent communication with professional/clinical leads within the Trust and in partner organisations.To act as a key conduit for dissemination of information from the leadership team to clinical staff and vice versa.Work in collaboration with colleagues to challenge behaviours that undermine equality and diversity, privacy and dignity adhering to the Human Rights Act, Trust policies and other relevant local and national policy.

Corporate dutiesHave an understanding of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 with respect to Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response (EPRR) and lead on implementation of the division's obligations under the Act.Ensure that business continuity plans (BCPs) are developed and regularly tested for all areas within the division in collaboration with the Emergency Planning Manager.Ensure systems and processes are in place to deliver accurate timely statutory information requirements including the Trust Data Protection Policy and Freedom of Information Act.Ensure Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are embedded into the core business of the Division in line with the corporate framework; including governance arrangements, planning processes, and ensuring this is embedded within the ongoing policy and service development processes.To prepare, develop and write business cases, bids, and information papers as required.Undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.Annually agree appropriate personal objectives and a personal development plan with the Chief Nurses team, in line with Trust objectives.Responsible for ensuring identified training and development is undertaken appropriate to the potholder's role.

This newly created post is the result of an organisational redesign focused on improving the clinical voice within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. The Children's Community Nursing portfolio encompasses the Children's Community Nursing, Special School Nursing and Children's Continence teams in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove, the Residential School Nursing Team and Respite unit at Chailey Heritage Foundation.

Job description Job responsibilities OperationalIn conjunction with the Divisional and Deputy Nursing Director, support the line management of Nurses working in the service within their locality including performance and professional standards management.Ensure a consistent approach is taken, so that all clinical staff comply with Trust-wide policies and procedures. Continuous improvementEnsure clinical staff within the services are trained to an appropriate level in Quality Improvement and are confident and competent to use QI methodology, tools and resources.Encourage a culture of innovation, welcoming ideas for improvement, and supporting clinicians with taking forward change, ensuring it is data-driven, responds to the patient voice and leads to improved outcomes for patients, efficiency and productivity.Support the development of a data led approach to improvement and evaluation. Contribute to the collation and use of clinical data and be involved in subsequent improvements required, relating to outcome/quality/performance indicators.Lead on research for the services in their portfolio, encouraging and supporting the development of programmes of research ensuring a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional approach and working closely with the Trusts research team.Responsible for ensuring that Divisional clinical staff understand and effectively respond to identified trends from complaints, and patient feedback, ensuring that opportunities to learn are maximised.Ensure systems are in place that support the delivery of action plans, embedding learning into practice and sharing learning and improvement.To undertake special projects, which develop the understanding and knowledge of clinical nursing practice. People and professional leadershipTo provide line management to staff within the Divisional team as required.To provide professional leadership and support to the staff employed within the Division and advise on all professional and clinical management matters, acting as a point of escalation for issues of concern.To work closely with the Education team and take responsibility and accountability for developing and implementing professional competencies in specific areas of practice as service requirements and change in workforce profile dictates.To work with the leadership team on the development, implementation and evaluation of workforce requirements and support the recruitment and retention, training and development of staff.To proactively manage matters relating to poor capability or poor performance ensuring that Trust performance management systems are adhered to.To maintain an analytical knowledge and awareness of local and national health care issues, such as NICE Guidance, Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults and the Care Quality Commission. Patient Care, Quality and GovernanceRespond to issues, complaints and feedback through systems and staff to resolve issues promptly and locally, including liaison with patients and relatives as needed, dealing with difficult issues sensitively.Ensuring that patient and public involvement is integral to the planning, development and delivery of clinical services. Work closely with representative groups to gain feedback on service delivery issues which can be used to inform improvement.Lead and support relevant staff in the investigation and action planning into clinical incidents, ensuring learning is shared and embedded.Work with the Heads of Service to be accountable for the implementation and monitoring of actions from governance, quality and safety group that relate to the clinical area within the span of responsibility. Provide clinical leadership to governance meetings, either as a chair or member as required.To lead programmes of work to demonstrate improvements in practice and ensure that patients can have confidence in the services, actively seeking the views of patients and public.To ensure robust systems, monitoring and follow-up action is in place regarding infection, prevention and control.To implement the Trusts Risk Management Strategy, proactively identifying, recording and managing clinical risk.To ensure Health and Safety standards are adhered to within the Division and staff are appropriately trained to enable them to undertake their duties safely and without unnecessary risk.Present highly complex information to large groups of staff or members of the public, this may include reconciling conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding. PerformanceWithin the triumvirate support the management of the performance of services, including developing plans to mitigate risks and taking remedial action, supporting clinicians to make changes as required to pathways, access and ways of working to improve. Finance & resourcesTo ensure optimum use of resources establishing and maintaining effective processes to ensure financial control/balance to deliver the service and professional objectives in line with commissioned activity, budgeted income and financial frameworks.With the Heads of Service, ensure bank and agency spend is within the agreed control limits, appropriate authorisation of exceptions to maintain patient safety and safe, cost-effective rostering. PartnershipUtilising own clinical expertise and experience work in partnership with the patient, their relatives, and clinical teams within own division and across other divisions in the development of care pathways to provide assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality seamless care.To engage and work collaboratively with patients and with other stakeholder groups (for example, neighbourhood forums, expert patient groups and local authority consultative forums) to improve the patient experience, and to ensure appropriate advice, guidance, or ancillary services are provided to patients, relatives, or carers.Represent the Trust with partner organisations and work closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interest of patient care.Establish excellent communication with professional/clinical leads within the Trust and in partner organisations.To act as a key conduit for dissemination of information from the leadership team to clinical staff and vice versa.Work in collaboration with colleagues to challenge behaviours that undermine equality and diversity, privacy and dignity adhering to the Human Rights Act, Trust policies and other relevant local and national policy. Corporate dutiesHave an understanding of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 with respect to Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response (EPRR) and lead on implementation of the division's obligations under the Act.Ensure that business continuity plans (BCPs) are developed and regularly tested for all areas within the division in collaboration with the Emergency Planning Manager.Ensure systems and processes are in place to deliver accurate timely statutory information requirements including the Trust Data Protection Policy and Freedom of Information Act.Ensure Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are embedded into the core business of the Division in line with the corporate framework; including governance arrangements, planning processes, and ensuring this is embedded within the ongoing policy and service development processes.To prepare, develop and write business cases, bids, and information papers as required.Undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.Annually agree appropriate personal objectives and a personal development plan with the Chief Nurses team, in line with Trust objectives.Responsible for ensuring identified training and development is undertaken appropriate to the potholder's role. This newly created post is the result of an organisational redesign focused on improving the clinical voice within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. The Children's Community Nursing portfolio encompasses the Children's Community Nursing, Special School Nursing and Children's Continence teams in West Sussex and Brighton and Hove, the Residential School Nursing Team and Respite unit at Chailey Heritage Foundation.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Professional Registration

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional
• Postgraduate qualification in management or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Specialist Practice Children's Community Nursing or other Specialist Clinical qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience in a leadership and management role within Children's services
• Substantial experience of managing clinical operational performance across multiple services, including managing budgets, drafting business plans, managing risk and operational planning
• Substantial experience of leading quality and service improvements
• Substantial experience of managing staff within multidisciplinary teams including recruitment and retention, performance management, managing sickness absence and misconduct

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of NHS Human Resource Policies and Procedures.
• Knowledge of multidisciplinary team working and an understanding of differing professional roles boundaries.
• Word-processing and keyboard skills and ability to use Microsoft Office packages including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience of partnership and stakeholder working
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills and ability to manage and deliver to agreed deadlines.
• Advanced knowledge of clinical operational processes, including budget management, target setting, and action planning and performance management.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the job

Person Specification Qualifications and Professional Registration Essential Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional Postgraduate qualification in management or equivalent level of knowledge gained through experience Evidence of continued professional development Desirable Specialist Practice Children's Community Nursing or other Specialist Clinical qualification Experience Essential Substantial experience in a leadership and management role within Children's services Substantial experience of managing clinical operational performance across multiple services, including managing budgets, drafting business plans, managing risk and operational planning Substantial experience of leading quality and service improvements Substantial experience of managing staff within multidisciplinary teams including recruitment and retention, performance management, managing sickness absence and misconduct Skills and knowledge Essential Knowledge of NHS Human Resource Policies and Procedures. Knowledge of multidisciplinary team working and an understanding of differing professional roles boundaries. Word-processing and keyboard skills and ability to use Microsoft Office packages including Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Experience of partnership and stakeholder working Experience of multidisciplinary working Excellent time management, prioritisation and organisational skills and ability to manage and deliver to agreed deadlines. Advanced knowledge of clinical operational processes, including budget management, target setting, and action planning and performance management. Other Requirements Essential Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the job

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).

Additional information 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brighton General Hospital

Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brighton General Hospital

Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)