Childrens Community Nurse

Main area: Children's Community Nursing

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Flexible working, 36 hours per week (3 x night shifts, 1 x day shift per week)

Job ref: 083-7100118-WW-A

Employer: Sirona care & health CIC

Site: Bristol Based Role (Cover BNSSG)

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 12/06/2025 23:59

Job overview:

Could you help us make a real difference to children and families in your community? The Lifetime Service is a Community Nursing and Psychology Service for children and young people with life limiting, life threatening conditions and those who meet Children’s Continuing Care criteria. The Lifetime Service is extremely well regarded in our community, and our team are proud to support the children and families that they do.

The service is based in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire and currently provides a service across four Integrated care board (ICB) areas, supporting children aged 0-19 and their families in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, and B&NES. In addition, the service has a Continuing Care Team (CCT), which supports children at home with complex health needs and children who are technology dependent.

Main duties of the job:

• The purpose of this role is to undertake clinical shifts working alongside the Lifetime support workers in the child’s home or school setting, observing their clinical competencies and undertaking annual clinical assessments to provide outstanding care and support to the children and their families who meet Continuing Care Criteria.
• This role includes clinical support to the rota co-ordination team.
• This role will take on the line management of a number of Lifetime Support Workers, including management and assessment of the wider team, having regular one to one meetings, performance development reviews, and absence management meetings to support the team leaders.
• The successful candidate will assist in the delivery of clinical skills training days, upskilling support workers and ensuring the team are providing evidence-based interventions in line with national guidance.
• The role will require travel across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, visiting service users within their own homes and occasionally in schools, in addition to meeting and liaising with other teams and services involved in the child's care.

Working for our organisation:

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don’t be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Person specification:

• RSCN/RN Child registered on part 8 or 15 NMC register
• Full UK Driving Licence & Access to a vehicle for work purposes
• BSc (Hons) Community Children’s Nurse/relevant community experience i.e. Specialist Practitioner CCN or SCPHN
• Facilitating Learning and Assessment in Practice Course or Equivalent

• Knowledge of professional agenda and NMC standards
• Understanding of systems and processes in relation to safe service delivery
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work in a changing environment
• Experience working as a Children’s Nurse
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) in areas relevant to Community Children’s Continuing Care and/or community experience
• Experience of complex rotas to meet service and staffing demands.
• Evidence of Management/Leadership experience
• Experience of delivering teaching
• Experience of supervising/assessing students

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.