Community Children's Nurse - Band 6

Community Children's Nurse - Band 6

The closing date is 05 July 2026.

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Children's Nurses to join our Community Children's Nursing Services. This Band 6 role combines working within the Special School Nursing Service (SNSN) during term time and the Children's Community Nursing (CCN) Team during school holidays, supporting CYP with complex health needs across educational and community settings.

• Provide specialist nursing care within special schools during term time, supporting children and young people with complex medical conditions, disabilities, and long‑term health needs.
• Carry out care planning, health assessments, medication management, enteral feeding, epilepsy management, staff training, and contribute to Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
• Deliver nursing care in homes and the community during school holidays, supporting children with technology‑dependent needs, including tracheostomy care, continuing care, palliative care and hospital discharge support.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervise and support colleagues, contribute to service development and work collaboratively with families, schools, therapists, social care and medical teams.
• Work autonomously managing a caseload, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care, delivering clinical interventions and training parents, carers and staff from other agencies.
• Participate in 24‑hour on‑call rota and provide end‑of‑life care at home when chosen by the family.

• Registered Children's Nurse with effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, or Registered Learning Disability Nurse.
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience working with children with disabilities and complex physical health needs.

• Extensive experience of working with children with complex health needs.
• Extensive clinical skills.