Team Leader - Children's Long - Term Ventilation Team | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 Per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oldham, OL1 1NL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Jul 2026
Closing date:	2 Sept 2026

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Summary

Are you a passionate children's nurse and inspiring leader looking for your next challenge? This is an exciting opportunity to lead a highly specialised Children's Long-Term Ventilation Team (CLTVT), making a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families.

As Team Lead, you will provide operational leadership for the service, ensuring high standards of clinical care, governance and service delivery. You will help shape and develop a skilled workforce through leadership, supervision, mentoring and professional development.

What you'll be doing:

• • Providing clinical, professional and operational leadership for the CLTVT

• • Working autonomously as an expert children's nurse, delivering specialist advice and support to children and young people with complex ventilation needs

• • Leading assessments and reviews to ensure care packages achieve the best outcomes and effective use of resources

• • Combining clinical expertise with business awareness to deliver sustainable, innovative services

• • Championing high-quality, culturally sensitive care that promotes independence and supports families

• • Supporting a motivated multidisciplinary workforce and fostering a culture of learning, excellence and compassionate care

This is an opportunity to influence the future of specialist children's services, improve outcomes for vulnerable patients and support families to live more independent lives.

Interviews: 20 August 2026

This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a specialist service supporting children and young people with complex healthcare needs. As Lead for the Children's Long-Term Ventilation Team, you will play a key role in delivering innovative, high-quality care that enables children and families to thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Provide clinical, professional and operational leadership across the team

• Lead the development and oversight of care packages for children requiring long-term ventilation and tracheostomy support

• Champion safe, evidence-based, child-centred practice that delivers the best possible outcomes

• Oversee caseload allocation, workforce planning and service coordination

• Build strong partnerships across health, education and social care services

• Develop and support staff through supervision, mentoring and professional leadership

• Drive quality improvement, clinical governance, risk management and service development

• Contribute to local, regional and national developments in specialist children's services

• Shape systems and processes that promote consistency, quality and excellence

Why this role matters

You will lead a highly specialised team, influence service development and improve the lives of children and young people with complex healthcare needs. This is an ideal opportunity for an ambitious, compassionate leader who is passionate about delivering exceptional care and driving positive change.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in ourCandidate Information Pack

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Aug 2026

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