Team Leader - Community Paediatrics

The successful candidate will provide visible leadership to the Community Paediatrics team, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, governance, patient safety and staff wellbeing. You will manage workforce performance, recruitment, sickness absence, annual leave, supervision, appraisal and mandatory training, ensuring staff are supported to achieve their full potential. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating team activity, managing changing priorities and responding effectively to operational pressures while maintaining high-quality care. You will work collaboratively with the Service Manager, Professional Lead and wider Children's Care Group to develop services, implement quality improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic objectives across the organisation and wider health system. The role includes providing specialist clinical expertise, supporting complex assessments and clinical decision-making where appropriate, participating in referral triage and ensuring effective workload management across the team. You will lead on clinical governance, audit, risk management, policy implementation and service evaluation, using data and evidence to drive continuous improvement. Excellent communication and partnership-working skills are essential as you will work closely with acute providers, education, social care, local authorities and voluntary organisations. You will manage sensitive conversations relating to safeguarding, complex needs and family support with professionalism and compassion. This is a varied and rewarding leadership role requiring resilience, initiative and the ability to balance operational management with clinical credibility. The post involves working across community settings, including travel between clinics, schools and family homes, with occasional lone working as required. Job description Job responsibilities The successful candidate will provide visible leadership to the Community Paediatrics team, ensuring high standards of clinical practice, governance, patient safety and staff wellbeing. You will manage workforce performance, recruitment, sickness absence, annual leave, supervision, appraisal and mandatory training, ensuring staff are supported to achieve their full potential. You will be responsible for planning and coordinating team activity, managing changing priorities and responding effectively to operational pressures while maintaining high-quality care. You will work collaboratively with the Service Manager, Professional Lead and wider Children's Care Group to develop services, implement quality improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic objectives across the organisation and wider health system. The role includes providing specialist clinical expertise, supporting complex assessments and clinical decision-making where appropriate, participating in referral triage and ensuring effective workload management across the team. You will lead on clinical governance, audit, risk management, policy implementation and service evaluation, using data and evidence to drive continuous improvement. Excellent communication and partnership-working skills are essential as you will work closely with acute providers, education, social care, local authorities and voluntary organisations. You will manage sensitive conversations relating to safeguarding, complex needs and family support with professionalism and compassion. This is a varied and rewarding leadership role requiring resilience, initiative and the ability to balance operational management with clinical credibility. The post involves working across community settings, including travel between clinics, schools and family homes, with occasional lone working as required.