Community Care Paedatric Lead Nurse in Plymouth

Reporting to: Community Care Nurse Manager

Location: Blended working between home and community visits, ideally located South Devon – Plymouth – travel will be included in working hours.

Salary: £42,000 plus performance bonus up to £3,000 pa and car allowance £3,840 pa (+ mileage)

Contract type: Full time

Working Pattern: Core Hours are Monday - Friday 09:00-17:30, some flexibility required for client visits out of hours (37.5 hours per week)

Who are we?

At Newcross Healthcare, we’re transforming healthcare through innovation, technology, and education—anchored by our values of Integrity, Respect, Empathy, and Teamwork. As one of the UK’s leading providers of healthcare staffing and professional development, we empower over 80,000 health and social care professionals with smarter workforce tools, free digital learning, and accredited training.

Who are you?

If you’re a Registered Children’s Nurse (RNC) who leads with compassion as well as clinical skill, this is a role where your work truly matters. At Newcross Healthcare, we care deeply about children with complex needs and the families who love them. Every day, we help children live safely and confidently at home — creating stability, hope and precious moments of normal family life.

If you have experience in paediatric complex care, this is a rare opportunity to build a rewarding career where you are valued, supported and empowered — with excellent benefits, meaningful progression and the chance to change lives every day.

You will work as part of a National Team of Nurses for Newcross Healthcare. With an allocated territory you will have a dedicated case load, working as part of a team of HCA’s and Nurses to bring a first class level of care and support to our clients that they would expect.

What will you do?

• Be physically visible and accessible to service users, families and carers working together to ensure efficient, effective and caring services
• Devise, implement and evaluate care plans, risk assessments and associated care documentation, whilst maintaining a person/care centred approach
• Work alongside and support the Registered Manager to ensure all referrals are reviewed and assessed
• A duty to maintain a safe service as a trusted voice and advisor to ensure full competency sign off.
• Support, Monitor and be accountable for delegated clinical tasks to Care Associates and Healthcare Workers
• Work closely with the Senior Clinical Lead Nurse to support the continual improvement of Community Care
• Provide clinical leadership, support, supervision and direction to the Care Associates and Healthcare Workers to carry out enhanced clinical care duties; maintaining their clinical training and competencies
• Proactive management and communication to ensure safe, responsive and effective care is provided to reduce risks
• To be solution driven and partake in crisis management of packages of care
• Support Registered Manager with debriefing service users and carers following critical incidents and difficult situations
• Undertake clinical investigations where delegated
• Provide support and guidance out of hours via on call

What we’ll be looking for

• Experience of leading a team, providing clinical leadership support, supervision and direction to Care Associate and Healthcare workers.
• Experience within paediatric health settings such as community, complex care, children’s hospice, Paediatric High Dependency Unit (PHDU) or Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience in similar field.
• Experience of Care Planning. Devising, implementing and evaluating Care Plans, Risk Assessments
• Experience of providing Support and Monitoring to Care Associates and Healthcare Workers
• Able to undertake Clinical Investigations where required
• Clinical Skills Skilled in supporting children with complex health needs (e.g. peg, seizures, ventilation, tracheostomy care, CIC, dystonia, etc), person centred care planning, risk assessments. (There will be some training given)

Qualifications Required

• Registered Children’s Nurse (RNC): You must be a Qualified Children’s Nurse with current and relevant NMC registration – RN8/RNC/RSCN.
• Experience: Two years post-qualification clinical working experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge: Up-to-date understanding of relevant national standards and regulations (e.g., CQC, Care Inspectorate Scotland/Wales)

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us and we will talk to you about how we can assist.