Childrens Community Nurse

Go back North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)

The closing date is 28 October 2026

Are you a passionate, registered Childrens Nurse looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference? Join our Childrens Community Nursing Team and help deliver high-quality care to children and young people in homes, schools, nurseries and clinics. We work closely with children and their families to ensure that wherever possible, care can be delivered safely in the comfort of the childs own home.

You will support children with complex health needs and acute or long-term conditions, using your clinical skills,communication skills and compassion. This is an exciting opportunity to workboth independently and as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

As a Childrens Community Nurse, you will play a key role inhelping children and young people receive specialist, high-quality care.

Working closely with children and their families, you will assess individual health needs and plan and deliver evidence-based care. You will support children with complex, acute, chronic, life-limiting or additional health needs across homes, schools and community clinics. The role will involve tracheostomycare, non-invasive ventilation, intravenous and subcutaneous medication, port flushing and central line care, enteral feeding, and safe airway management,including suctioning and administering nebulised medication as well as acute nursing skills.

You will also facilitate timely hospital discharge, working with the wider multidisciplinary team, and build the confidence of parents,carers and school staff through practical clinical training and support.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind:
  We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open:
  We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair:
  We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team:
  We work well together and with our communities

Towork within the Childrens Community Nursing Service, delivering high quality,evidence-based nursing care for children and young people with life limiting and life threatening conditions and supporting children and young people with short-and long-term conditions.

To identify the health needs of children to be nursed in the community and work inliaison with multi-agency partners to promote collaboration and effective communication.

Towork across the Childrens Community Nursing Service developing skills incomplex, acute and long-term conditions care.

Full Job Description attached.

• If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.

• Able to effectively supervise/support fellow team members and student nurses.
• Use skills to teach/develop fellow team members, student nurses, parent/carers and education staff
• Able to undertake Practice Assessor / Supervisor role.

• Relevant experience working in a healthcare setting with children and their families, with complex health needs / acute health needs
• Teaching, audit and evaluation skills.
• Caring for children within a community setting.
• Completion of an Intravenous therapy course

• To possess or be willing to complete the Paediatric Clinical Examination and Minor illness module.
• To possess or willing to work towards BSc in Community Childrens Nursing.

• The ability to travel independently across the trust
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs

• Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work…