Band 6 Children's Community Nurse

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Providing case management to an identified caseload of children and young people with predominantly life‑limiting, palliative and complex health needs, including but not limited to tracheostomy, cardiac and respiratory monitoring, catheterisation, central lines, long‑term ventilation.
• Improving outcomes for children and families, reducing the need for hospital admissions, coordinating and regularly reviewing care needs, and empowering families to meet complex health needs.

Qualifications

• Registered Children’s Nurse or registered nurse with clinical experience in required fields.
• Current registration with the NMC.
• Experience working with children with complex, life‑limiting, palliative care needs.
• Capability to case manage and caseload manage multiple children.
• Ability to effectively assess and prioritise needs.
• Collaboration within a multi‑disciplinary inter‑agency team.
• Reflective practice and critical appraisal of own performance.
• Efficient organisation and response to complex information.
• Prioritise own workload, balancing demands and meeting deadlines.
• Commitment to client‑centred practice.
• Transfer of skills/knowledge to others in formal and informal settings.
• Effective communication of complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
• Maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines.
• Broad knowledge of normal child development.
• Knowledge of nursing models of practice.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
• Community Specialist Practitioner degree or equivalent diploma or documented experience in community setting.
• Qualification in working with children palliative care needs.
• Experience with children with additional and complex needs.
• Experience with children using ventilators and tracheostomies.
• Proven experience with children having palliative or end‑of‑life nursing needs.

Other Requirements

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

Benefits

• Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, providing access to discounts on everyday purchases, cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to wages as earned to cover emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high‑interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face support with mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through the Outstanding Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture encouraging the development and implementation of ideas backed by at least £100,000 of innovation funding each year.
• Working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of 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.
• We’re a Disability Confident Company and work to provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.
• All applicants are subject to a safer recruitment process, including disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults.