Community Children's Nurse - RSCN Registered

Community Children's Nurse - RSCN Registered

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Children's Community Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: 1:0 Hours 37.5 hours per week (5 shifts a week , 8 am and 9 am start time, capacity to work weekends) Job ref 220-WHT-8333188

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington health- The Northern Health Centre Town Islington Salary £47,951 - £56,863 Inclusive of Inner London pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 19/11/2026

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We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse to join our dynamic Islington Children’s Community Nursing team. The post holder will provide specialist, child and family‑centred nursing care to children and young people with acute, chronic, and complex health needs within their own homes, schools and other community settings.

As a Band 6 CCN, you will work autonomously, managing a defined caseload and coordinating care in collaboration with children, families, and the multidisciplinary team. You will demonstrate advanced clinical skills, sound professional judgement, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and evidence‑based care closer to home.

The role includes providing clinical leadership, supporting and supervising junior staff, students, and support workers, and contributing to service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance activities. You will play an active role in safeguarding, health promotion, and supporting families to develop confidence in managing their child’s health needs.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high‑quality care to children and young people in their homes, schools, and community settings
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualised care plans for children with acute, chronic, and complex health needs
• Deliver a range of clinical interventions, including medication administration, wound care, enteral feeding, and other specialist procedures as required such as accessing CVADS.
• Work autonomously while managing a caseload, prioritising workload effectively and responding to changing clinical needs
• Liaise closely with multidisciplinary teams, including GPs, consultants, therapists, schools, and social care services
• Contribute to safeguarding children and young people, recognising and escalating concerns in line with local and national policy
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential clinical records in line with professional and organisational standards
• Support and supervise students, junior staff, and support workers as appropriate

Working for our organisation

What you should expect from us

Our commitment to you is that you will have access to excellent nurse leaders and a personalised approach to your continuing education and professional development. We will work with you to ensure you have the best learning and career opportunities. Living our I.CARE values gives us a strong foundation for compassionate leadership and you should expect to be always treated with kindness, fairness and respect.

What we expect of you

We expect you to have excellent clinical abilities and to play a part in delivering our I.CARE values to ensure patients and their families receive the best possible care. You should exemplify the highest standards of care, clinical competence and compassion. You need to be committed to be the best, be an effective communicator and be courageous in speaking up if patient care is compromised.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Community Children's Nurse is responsible for providing skilled nursing care for sick children in their own homes or other suitable venues that would otherwise be performed in an acute hospital setting. They are also responsible for the effective assessing, planning implementation, delivery and evaluation of individualised nursing care to children as required and under the direction of the Team Lead. The Nurse is expected to work with minimal supervision and will be designated to take charge and work as a lone worker within the community on a regular basis.

The Nurse will provide care at home without supervision to facilitate the prevention of admission or reduction in hospitalisation.

Person specification

Experience

• Recent experience of general children’s nursing in either a community or hospital setting
• Being able to work autonomously without constant supervision.
• Experience of mentoring nursing students
• Car Driver
• Specialist Practitioner in Children’s Nursing Course or similar qualification (i.e. Community Course)
• Experience of nursing in a diverse inner city community setting

Skills

• Competent at delivering IV medication and other medication
• CVAD competent
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to demonstrate awareness and understanding of a) London Child Protection Procedures b) Working together to safeguard children
• Experience of nursing in a diverse inner city community setting

Experience

• Experience of team working
• Experience of mentoring nursing students
• Being able to work autonomously without constant supervision.
• Able to prioritise clinical workload

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Other important information

• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
• If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
• Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
• The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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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.