Community Children's Nurse

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Children’s Community Nurse to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, family‑centred care to children and young people with complex health needs across Gloucestershire. The team supports children with life‑limiting conditions, long‑term health needs, and medical complexity, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge, and enable care in homes, schools, and community settings.

• Deliver specialist nursing care, assessment, treatment, advice and support to children and young people with complex, life‑limiting and long‑term health conditions in community settings.
• Hold responsibility for assessing health needs, developing and reviewing care plans, and coordinating care in partnership with families and multidisciplinary professionals.
• Manage a clinical caseload and provide expert clinical decision‑making to support safe, effective and person‑centred care.
• Support the Team Leader with the operational delivery and ongoing development of the Children’s Community Nursing Service.
• Deliver training, competency assessment and ongoing support to parents, carers, school staff and other professionals caring for children with complex healthcare needs.
• Participate in safeguarding processes, including attendance at Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups and Child in Need meetings, ensuring the welfare of children remains central to practice.
• Work collaboratively with acute hospitals, paediatricians, education providers, social care services and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated and integrated care.
• Contribute to clinical governance, service improvement, audit and quality initiatives to maintain high standards of care and support evidence‑based practice.
• Participate in the Band6 end‑of‑life on‑call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end‑of‑life care within the home environment.
• Foster a multidisciplinary approach focused on delivering consistently high‑quality clinical services that enable children to access education in line with their healthcare needs.

• Current NMC Registration, including registered children’s nurse.
• Evidence of further training completed in a range of clinical skills.
• Evidence of post‑registration/post‑graduate study in a relevant area, e.g. degree in children’s community nursing or a community specialist qualification or equivalent.
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent.
• Substantial post‑registration experience of working with children who may have a learning disability, complex health needs, a palliative diagnosis, or an acute short‑ or long‑term condition requiring nursing intervention.
• Experience of supporting/supervising other team members and/or students.
• Experience of delivering training to others including non‑NHS staff, patients and their families/carers.
• Experience in end‑of‑life care delivery.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and joint agency working.
• Knowledge of current legislative changes affecting the NHS and Social Services, particularly those affecting special needs health and education.
• Knowledge of child development and the needs of children with chronic and complex needs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures in Gloucestershire.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision.
• Full valid driving licence for the UK.