Children's Community Nurse

Package Description

As a Community Children's Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• 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 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 ringfenced 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

Job Introduction

As a Band 6 Community Children’s Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high‑quality nursing care to children and young people aged 0–18 across the community. You will support children with acute and short term conditions; long term and chronic conditions; complex health needs; palliative and end of life care, enabling them to receive safe, effective care in their own homes and community settings. Based in Harlow, you will work across West Essex as part of a skilled and supportive multi‑disciplinary team. This includes close collaboration with hospital colleagues, GP practices and other community professionals, ensuring care is well coordinated and centred around the needs of the child and their family.This is a full time position, offering the opportunity to develop your specialist community nursing skills while making a meaningful difference to children, young people and families every day.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist community‑based nursing care to children and young people
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans with families
• Support early discharge and help reduce avoidable hospital admissions and A&E attendances
• Coordinate care with hospital teams, GP practices, tertiary centres and hospices
• Act as a specialist resource, offering advice and support to families and professionals
• Maintain strong links between community and hospital‑based services
• Provide teaching, training and clinical support to colleagues
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives
• Identify and manage clinical risk in line with safeguarding and governance requirements
• Maintain accurate clinical records and uphold information governance standards

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered Children’s Nurse (RSCN / RN Child)
• Current NMC registration
• Significant post‑registration experience in children’s nursing
• Experience caring for children and young people with acute, chronic and complex health needs
• Strong clinical assessment and care planning skills
• Excellent communication skills with a compassionate, family‑centred approach
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Sound understanding of safeguarding children and professional standards
• Confident IT skills to support mobile working
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes

Desirable

• Experience in a community children’s nursing setting
• Teaching, mentoring or clinical supervision experience
• Involvement in service development or quality improvement work

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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