Main area Community Children's Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (End date: 30/06/2026) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (flexible days preferred) Job ref 361-7576963
Site New QE11 Hospital Town Welwyn Garden City Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata plus 5% High-Cost Area Supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 19/11/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/12/2025
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Our vision to 2030 is:
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Community Children's Nurse who share s our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Are you a compassionate and motivated children's nurse looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and their families? We are seeking an enthusiastic children's nurse to join our dynamic team, providing high quality, family centred care in community settings.
You will provide care, support, education and advice to children and their families supporting a generic caseload, working within community and hospital setting.
In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Community Children's Nurse will deliver specialist nursing interventions to children and young people with acute, chronic and complex health needs in a community setting including family homes, nurseries and schools.
To work collaboratively with families, hospital teams and other community services to provide holistic, person centred care.
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.
Provide nursing care including respiratory, oncology, rheumatology, palliative and end of life care.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* Registered Children’s Nurse
* Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
* Willingness to undertake further training as required
* ENB 998/Mentorship and Preceptorship Qualification
* Community Experience
* Community Nurse Practitioner Qualification
Previous Experience
* Post qualification experience within Paediatric Nursing
* Proven management experience (Ward or Equivalent)
* Understanding of current policies and documents
* Experience supporting caseload of patients
* Having the ability to work under pressure to manage workload and meet deadlines.
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Experience in writing, implementing and evaluating treatment plans
* Sound understanding of Young people and the difficulties they can experience and is confident to work with them and their carers
* Used to dealing with sensitive issues
* Experience of delivering training, presenting and assessing professionals, families, students.
* Experience writing/reviewing and updating policy considering new evidence based practice.
* Experience working as an autonomous practitioner
* Experience of audit or research
* Experience of receiving clinical supervision
Skills & Knowledge
* Awareness clinical skills, updates and expectations within Paediatric Community Nursing
* Ability to demonstrate leadership
Other Requirements
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
* Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
* Role model our Trust values every day
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
When you apply...
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Angela Bowman Job title Community Children's Nurses - Team Lead Email address angela.bowman@nhs.net Telephone number 07831 129089
Debbie Twist (Joint Team Lead for Community Children's Nurses)
d.twist@nhs.net
07917 516509
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