Roald Dahl Children with Medical Complexities Nurse Specialist
Location
Slough, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/15/2025
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Description
Job Overview
Do you want to make a difference in the lives of children and young people with medical complexity (CMC)? Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting and unique opportunity for a Roald Dahl CMC Clinical Nurse Specialist in partnership with The Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting and developing a collaborative and high-quality service for children and young people (CYP) with medical complexity within the acute children’s service.
The post holder will support effective communication and develop pathways and processes across boundaries and organisations both locally and regionally. They will focus on improving planning and support for CYP with complex medical conditions, including effective pre-admission, transfer, and discharge planning, aiming to reduce hospital stay length and readmission, and promote coordinated, safe, and high-quality care.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership and coordination of the acute patient pathway for children with medical complexity (CMC). Ensure a high-quality service meeting the needs of the child and their family.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders including MDTs, CNSs, clinical teams, Consultants, therapists, and community nursing teams across the Trust/Health Board. Coordinate multidisciplinary assessments meeting the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs of the CYP and their family at times of stability and crisis and develop strategies to address these needs with the multidisciplinary team. Work closely with ward-based nursing and medical colleagues from time of admission to provide a coordinated, seamless, individualized approach, ensuring that families are fully informed regarding care planning and ongoing arrangements to meet their child's clinical needs.
Provide visible and accessible advice and practical support, including teaching when required, to relatives of CMC, acting as a contact point for families throughout the patient’s journey.
Act as an ambassador for the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children’s charity. Act as a voluntary representative of the charity when required to represent and promote the role and links between the NHS Trust and RDMCC. Join and contribute to RDMCC’s internal communication platform (Workplace from Meta) with encouragement from the NHS Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
Do you want to make a difference in the lives of children and young people with medical complexity (CMC)? Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting and unique opportunity for a Roald Dahl CMC Clinical Nurse Specialist in partnership with The Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting and developing a collaborative and high-quality service for children and young people (CYP) with medical complexity within the acute children’s service.
The post holder will support effective communication and develop pathways and processes across boundaries and organisations both locally and regionally. They will focus on improving planning and support for CYP with complex medical conditions, including effective pre-admission, transfer, and discharge planning, aiming to reduce hospital stay length and readmission, and promote coordinated, safe, and high-quality care.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership and coordination of the acute patient pathway for children with medical complexity (CMC). Ensure a high-quality service meeting the needs of the child and their family.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders including MDTs, CNSs, clinical teams, Consultants, therapists, and community nursing teams across the Trust/Health Board. Coordinate multidisciplinary assessments meeting the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual needs of the CYP and their family at times of stability and crisis and develop strategies to address these needs with the multidisciplinary team. Work closely with ward-based nursing and medical colleagues from time of admission to provide a coordinated, seamless, individualized approach, ensuring that families are fully informed regarding care planning and ongoing arrangements to meet their child's clinical needs.
Provide visible and accessible advice and practical support, including teaching when required, to relatives of CMC, acting as a contact point for families throughout the patient’s journey.
Act as an ambassador for the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children’s charity. Act as a voluntary representative of the charity when required to represent and promote the role and links between the NHS Trust and RDMCC. Join and contribute to RDMCC’s internal communication platform (Workplace from Meta) with encouragement from the NHS Trust.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Child branch or Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN)
- First level degree in relevant subject
- Evidence of continued professional development and training
- Advanced communication skills training or prepared to work towards
Essential criteria
- Teaching qualification or equivalent, willingness to undertake, or equivalent experience
- Relevant post registration experience in children’s nursing
- Demonstrable post registration experience
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of other services within primary, secondary and tertiary care, social care and education
- Leadership development programme or willingness to undertake leadership training.
Essential criteria
- Direct care skills in hospital and community settings
- Knowledge of communication with children with special educational needs or sensory impairment
- Sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding vulnerable children and vulnerable adults
- Advanced clinical assessment skills and ability to make autonomous clinical decisions and judgments.
- Knowledge of communication with children with special educational needs or sensory impairment
- Previous experience in audit and evaluation
- Teaching and presentation skills
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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