Band 6 Children's Community Nurse

Job Introduction

We are delighted to invite applications for a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse to join our team. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, supporting children and young people with complex health needs in a specialist school setting.

This is a part‑time role working 22.5 hours per week.

• Providing specialist nursing care, training, advice and education to children and their families and carers at home and in the community working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Providing case management to an identified caseload of children and young people who predominantly have life‑limiting, palliative and complex health needs, with a nursing need that requires support in the community. This includes but is not exhaustive: tracheostomy, cardiac and respiratory monitoring, catheterisation, central lines, long‑term ventilation. Experience and/or expertise in supporting children with this level of need is desirable.
• Improving outcomes for children and families, reducing the need for hospital admissions, helping to coordinate and regularly review care needs, supporting families to be empowered to meet complex health needs.

• Registered Childrens Nurse or registered nurse with clinical experience in required fields.
• Current registration with the NMC.
• Experience of working with children who have complex, life‑limiting, palliative care needs.
• Able to case‑manage and caseload manage a number of children.
• Able to effectively assess and prioritise needs.
• Able to work collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary interagency team.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
• Commitment to client‑centred practice.
• Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
• Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
• Broad knowledge of normal child development.
• Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
• Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.

• Community Specialist Practitioner Degree.
• Or diploma (or documented experience of working in the community setting).
• Qualification in working with children Palliative care needs.
• Experience of working with children with additional and complex needs.
• Experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies.
• Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end‑of‑life nursing needs.

• Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.

As a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high‑interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident company.