This senior post leads the Child Death Review nursing service across West and North London ICB, combining team management and CDOP administration with specialist clinical practice. The work spans supervising the nursing team, overseeing key worker support for bereaved families and turning complex case analysis into service improvement. It also includes a place on the clinical rota and joint agency responses alongside partners in health, social care, policing and coroners' services. NMC registration as a children's nurse or midwife, and master's-level or equivalent senior experience, are needed.
What the job involves
- Lead, coordinate and manage the Child Death Review nursing team and CDOP administration function day to day
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, mentorship, induction and development for team members
- Oversee the key worker function so bereaved families receive clear, compassionate and coordinated support
- Analyse complex information and identify themes and modifiable factors
- Translate learning into recommendations for service improvement
- Participate in the clinical rota
- Support joint agency responses, child death review meetings and preparation for Child Death Overview Panel review
- Support staff exposed to emotionally demanding work while working autonomously
- Ensure the voice and experience of every child and family inform learning and improvement
- Work across organisational boundaries with designated professionals and partners
- Manage complex communications with local authority colleagues, bereaved families, the coroner's office and NHS colleagues
What’s required
Qualifications
- Master's level education, or equivalent clinical experience and research with national recognition
- Management or leadership course
- Safeguarding training level 1 to 3 for children and adults
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration as a registered children's nurse (RSCN/RN Child) or registered midwife
Experience
- Professional-level NHS experience working with children in a specialist clinical setting
- Experience working with child death overview panels
- Previous CDOP experience in NHS, local authority or public health
- Experience dealing sensitively with parents, carers, patients and staff
- Experience managing staff exposed to difficult or emotional meetings
Skills & knowledge
- Significant knowledge of national and local child death review procedures
- Skill at building relationships and influencing large multi-disciplinary groups
- Excellent report writing and ability to analyse complex, sensitive information
- Managing complex communications with a range of stakeholders
Nice to have
- Evidence of continuing professional development
What’s offered
- High cost area supplement (HCAS) included in the stated pay
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
