Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday to Friday
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-NEI-26-8405332
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beech House
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Integrated Children’s Community Nursing Team Matron
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
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.
Working for our organisation
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with NMC RN (child)
- Specialist Practitioner (Community) Degree or educational equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Management/ Leadership Degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Evidence of working across several clinical disciplines
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shirley Peel
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Nursing & AHP's
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919496653
- Additional information
Sara Roberts - Head of Nursing - [email protected]
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