Band 6 Community Children's Senior Staff Nurse

Overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our supportive and dedicated Community Children\'s Nursing Team as a Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse. Based within a friendly and professional team in Surrey, you\'ll play a vital role in delivering high-quality, holistic nursing care to children and young adults aged 0-18 in the places they feel safest—at home, in schools, and in nursery settings. In this senior role, you will also support the Clinical Team Leader, provide guidance to junior staff, and contribute to the planning and coordination of care. If you\'re someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about community nursing, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based nursing care for children and young people aged 0-18 in their homes, schools, and nurseries.
• Independently assess, plan, implement, and evaluate complex care packages, including end-of-life care.
• Maintain advanced clinical skills in areas such as central line care, tracheostomy, enteral feeding, ventilation, and specialist infusions.
• Undertake clinical procedures including physical assessments, venepuncture, catheterisation, and PEG / tracheostomy tube management.
• Promote dignity, privacy, and person-centred care at all times.
• Support and supervise Band 5 staff, acting as a mentor and role model.
• Deputise for the Clinical Team Leader and contribute to team planning, workload allocation, and service coordination.
• Participate in a weekend rota and 24-hour end-of-life on-call service.
• Contribute to the strategic planning and continuous improvement of the Children\'s Community Nursing Service.
• Support audit, data analysis, and service evaluation to inform practice and resource use.
• Help develop and implement systems to ensure delivery of safe, efficient, and responsive care.
• Facilitate training, study days, and skill-sharing across teams and partner organisations.
• Effectively communicate complex, sensitive, and sometimes contentious information to families and professionals.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, including acute settings, to ensure smooth care transitions and early discharges.
• Participate in safeguarding processes, child protection conferences, and discharge planning meetings.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous documentation.
• Adhere to NMC codes, standards, and trust policies.
• Lead by example in upholding clinical governance, risk management, and safeguarding standards.
• Stay updated with current best practices through ongoing professional development.
• Work within delegated budgets and oversee the appropriate use of supplies and equipment.
• Support equipment ordering, stock control, and safe clinical environment maintenance.
• Assist in managing complaints, incidents, and emergency situations with professionalism and sensitivity.

Qualifications

Other requirements

Benefits

Other information

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\'s 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 would 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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