Children's Community Nurse

Main area Children's community nursing Grade Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity leave cover) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  
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Site Tooting health centre Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 per annum incl inner hcas Salary period Yearly Closing 26/08/2026 23:59

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic registered Children's Nurse to join our Children's Community Nursing Team (CCNT). As a Children's Community Nurse (CCN), you will play a crucial role in delivering high- quality nursing care to children in their home environments. Your primary responsibilities will include conducting assessments, developing care plans, implementing nursing interventions, and ensuring proper documentation and follow- up.

This is a part-time position, offering a 33-hour working week, which will also involve participating in a weekend rota and providing support for an end-of-life on-call rota when necessary.

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• Maintain accurate,systematic,andtimelyrecordkeepingincludingrecordingof clinical data.
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• To work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families
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St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area;
St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and personal specification for further detailed information.

• Registered Nurse (Children)
• Degree in Community Specialist Community Children’s nursing
• Teaching & Assessing Module/course
• Clinical Leadership Programme.

• Experience in assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care according to individual needs.
• Experience working with children who have complex health, long term conditions and/or palliative care needs.
• Demonstrate experience of mentoring and understanding of the assessment process for student nurses and any other member of the MDT.
• Recent experience of caring for an acutely unwell child.
• Community Nursing
• Evidence of audit or research project.
• Experience in conducting appraisal/IPR.

• Demonstrate leadership skills in supporting the team.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply research evidence to clinical practice and professional issues.
• Demonstrate the ability to supervise and mentor and assess more junior staff.
• Demonstrate ability to work with and to use resources effectively as part of the MDT.
• Ability to prioritise/adapt quickly and organise own workload and workload of the wider team.
• IV competent.
• Experience of caring for children with Enteral feeding devices.
• Experience of caring for children with Central Venous Access Device
• Ability to deliver teaching sessions to schools and families

• Demonstrate an understanding of normal child development and the sick child.
• Demonstrate an understanding of child safeguarding issues.
• Demonstrate an understanding of managing resources.
• Knowledge of oncology and chemotherapy

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.