Community Childrens Nursing Clinical Development LeadNHS
Job summary
Are you a passionate and experienced leader committed to developing people, improving services, and delivering outstanding care for children and families?
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Workforce and Service Development Lead to join our Community Children's Nursing service. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of a skilled workforce and make a meaningful impact on the quality and safety of care across our communities.
In this influential role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to strengthen the capability, resilience and sustainability of our CCN workforce. You will lead workforce development, education, audit, quality improvement and practice learning, ensuring services remain safe, evidence based and aligned with national guidance, regulatory standards and Trust priorities.
Working closely with CCN leadership, Learning and Development teams, and external education partners, you will support staff development, student education, workforce planning and service improvement.
If you are ready to lead meaningful change and help shape the future of Community Children's Nursing, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Workforce and Service Development Lead provides strategic and operational leadership to strengthen the quality, safety, capability, and sustainability of the Community Children's Nursing (CCN) workforce.
The post holder leads workforce development, education, audit, quality improvement, and practice learning across the service, ensuring that care is safe, evidence based, and aligned with national guidance, regulatory requirements, and Trust priorities.
The role supports staff development, student education, workforce planning, and continuous service improvement, working collaboratively across CCN leadership, Learning & Development teams, and external education partners.
Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence