As Lead Nurse for Children & Young People (CYP) Services, you'll take on a pivotal leadership role at Cromwell Hospital, directly responsible for the day‑to‑day operational and clinical management of all CYP services delivered onsite. You will hold additional accountability for the oversight and assurance of CYP care delivered across the wider Cromwell Hospital and its associated Diagnostic and Outpatient Centres, ensuring consistent paediatric standards and safe, effective care across every setting. This is a highly influential position within our nursing leadership team and central to delivering Cromwell Hospital's strategy. As Lead Nurse, you will drive improvements across four key pillars – quality, patient experience, financial efficiency, and leadership development – while acting as a role‑model for excellence in paediatric nursing and compassionate, child‑centred care.
Responsibilities
* Provide strong, visible clinical leadership across CYP inpatient and outpatient services, acting as a role model for paediatric nursing excellence.
* Ensure care standards are defined, delivered, and monitored in line with NMC, CQC, safeguarding, and paediatric professional frameworks.
* Lead and coordinate high‑quality clinical governance, including paediatric audits, safety alerts, compliance monitoring, and implementation of national guidance (e.g., NICE, NPSA).
* Offer professional oversight and ensure robust assurance processes for CYP services across all Cromwell and partner outpatient locations.
* Collaborate with clinical governance, risk teams, consultants, and multi‑disciplinary professionals to strengthen paediatric pathways and service improvements.
* Act as a change agent, promoting evidence‑based practice, innovation, and continuous improvement in CYP care delivery.
* Provide expert clinical advice on the care and treatment of children and young people to nursing, medical, and AHP teams.
* Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of paediatric audits, benchmarking, and quality initiatives.
* Mentor, coach, and develop senior nurses, ensuring strong succession planning and a skilled, competent paediatric workforce.
* Ensure safe staffing, effective resource management, and delivery of efficient, high‑quality paediatric services.
* Promote a culture of learning, research, and reflective practice within CYP teams.
* Build positive working relationships with consultants, supporting safe practice, feedback mechanisms, and collaborative service development.
* Ensure compliance with all safeguarding policies and lead paediatric safeguarding training engagement.
Qualifications
* Active NMC registration as a Registered Children's Nurse (RSCN/RN Child).
* Teaching/assessing qualification.
* Level 6‑7 leadership or management qualification, or equivalent experience.
* Substantial clinical experience within an acute paediatric setting.
* Demonstrated experience in clinical and operational management of CYP services.
* Strong working knowledge of NMC codes, paediatric safeguarding, regulatory frameworks, CQC standards, and clinical governance.
* Skilled in leading change, clinical audit, and service improvement.
* Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills.
* Experience in resource and budget management.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
* Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant paediatric specialty.
* Dual NMC registration (Adult + Children's Nurse).
* Experience leading CYP services in the independent sector.
* Experience in paediatric research or service development.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family‑friendly benefits.
* Payment of professional registration fees.
* Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
* Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
* An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
* On‑site gyms or local discounts where no on‑site gym is available.
* Various other benefits and online discounts.
Why Bupa? We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
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