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Job summary

Main area
Children & Young People
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Some weekend working including end of life care oncall rota)
Job ref
277-8062669-CYP
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Acorns Children's Centre Queen Mary's Hospital
Town
Bexley
Salary
pro rata pa inc
Closing
23/06/2026 23:59

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Senior Community Children's Nurse

Band 6

Job overview

Are you a passionate, energetic and an experienced Community Children’s Nurse?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a part time band 6 Senior Children's Nurse to work within the Bexley and Greenwich Community Children’s Nursing Team and integrated Hospital at Home Team.

The post holder will be a Children’s Nurse with extensive knowledge and experience of working within the community, thus being an exceptional role model and able to demonstrate evidence of up to date academic development post registration.

The team  provides a seven day service from 08.00 to 20:30, there is also 24 hour on call provision for children & young people who require end of life care at home.

Main duties of the job

The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long term conditions, children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care.

This is a post suitable for a Children’s Community Nurse who should have experience of working within a Community Children’s Nursing Team. 

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work within an integrated Children's Nursing team covering both CCN/HAH, the role as a community Children's Nurse is highly varied . We are one large team covering both borough's of Greenwich & Bexley. The caseload is varied with referrals of CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring rapid service input to enable CYP to be discharged from hospital early.   
 
Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role responsibilities. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RSCN or RN (child) Diploma / degree level.
  • Evidence of significant professional development in children’s nursing.
  • Current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Practice Assessors qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of post registration experience of working autonomously with children in the community.
  • Evidence of working as band 6 children’s nurse in a relevant area of children’s nursing
  • Experience in assessing complex care needs, planning implementation and evaluation of care plans.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of relevant clinical competence
  • Experience in teaching other staff and carers and assessing their competencies

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work with children with complex health needs
  • Ability to lead and work as part of a team
  • Excellent communication skills and inter personal skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthPride In Veterans

Applicant requirements

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high volume of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Becky Linane
Job title
Matron, Community Children's Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0203 004 0092
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