Barts Health NHS Trust

Senior Community Children’s Nurse

The closing date is 10 June 2025

Job summary

There's no place like home!With more emphasis on care being delivered in the community to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge, there has never been a better time to join the Community Children's Nursing Team in Tower Hamlets.

We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills to join our team, to deliver care within an integrated way across the community. This is a 24 month fixed term contract to cover study leave.

Your focus will be on delivering day to day evidence-based nursing care and case coordination for children and young people aged 0-18 with acute, short- and long-term nursing needs. You will adopt a person-centred care approach, focusing on the individual needs of the child and their families, encouraging active engagement to empower and create independence whenever possible.

At Young Barts Health, we believe you offer the best care to your patients when you feel supported and can work in a way that suits you, your life, and your family. As a flexible employer we will support you with this is the best way we can.

Main duties of the job

To achieve the best health and well-being outcomes for every child referred to the Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNT).

To facilitate early discharge of children from hospital and reduce or prevent hospitalre-admission.

To work together with parents to produce a joint plan of care to meet the needs of their child.To enable and empower parents to look after their child with our support.

About us

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Details

Date posted

28 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£44,806 to £53,134 a year Per annum inc pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

259-7239402RLH

Job locations

Mile end Hospital

London

E1 4DG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note: When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High Cost Area Supplement) is not included for non-medical roles. This ensures fairness and consistency within our organisation, as some of our sites fall under inner HCAS, while others are classified as outer HCAS.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note: When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High Cost Area Supplement) is not included for non-medical roles. This ensures fairness and consistency within our organisation, as some of our sites fall under inner HCAS, while others are classified as outer HCAS.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications & knowledge

Essential

  • RSCN / RN Child with current registration
  • Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Sound knowledge and demonstration of the use of evidenced based care.

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level or working towards it
  • Childrens Community Nursing qualification
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Two years post registration children's nursing experience at Band 5
  • Previous experience of working with children with complex needs.
  • Experience of successful working across organisational boundaries
  • Experience of assessing and supervising nursing students

Desirable

  • Leadership of an area
  • Awareness of budget and stock control
  • Health promotion experience
  • Previous experience of line managing junior members of staff

communications

Essential

  • Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
  • Communicates with people in a form and manner that: - Is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating. - Is appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
  • Encourages the effective participation of all involved
  • Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication and modifies communication in response
  • Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times
  • Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedure

Skills

Essential

  • High standard of clinical expertise
  • Ability to work independently and within a team
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads
  • Decision making skills
  • IT Literate
  • Ability to plan and deliver training sessions for parents/MDT with a range of different abilities and to assess and evaluate their learning through the use of competencies on a regular basis.
Person Specification

Qualifications & knowledge

Essential

  • RSCN / RN Child with current registration
  • Preparation for mentorship course or equivalent
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Sound knowledge and demonstration of the use of evidenced based care.

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level or working towards it
  • Childrens Community Nursing qualification
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Two years post registration children's nursing experience at Band 5
  • Previous experience of working with children with complex needs.
  • Experience of successful working across organisational boundaries
  • Experience of assessing and supervising nursing students

Desirable

  • Leadership of an area
  • Awareness of budget and stock control
  • Health promotion experience
  • Previous experience of line managing junior members of staff

communications

Essential

  • Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
  • Communicates with people in a form and manner that: - Is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating. - Is appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
  • Encourages the effective participation of all involved
  • Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication and modifies communication in response
  • Provides feedback to other workers on their communication at appropriate times
  • Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedure

Skills

Essential

  • High standard of clinical expertise
  • Ability to work independently and within a team
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Adaptable and able to deal with changing workloads
  • Decision making skills
  • IT Literate
  • Ability to plan and deliver training sessions for parents/MDT with a range of different abilities and to assess and evaluate their learning through the use of competencies on a regular basis.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Mile end Hospital

London

E1 4DG


Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Mile end Hospital

London

E1 4DG


Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Matron

Jo Webster

jo.webster@nhs.net

07783805705

Details

Date posted

28 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£44,806 to £53,134 a year Per annum inc pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

24 months

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

259-7239402RLH

Job locations

Mile end Hospital

London

E1 4DG


Supporting documents

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