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Children's Community Nurse
The closing date is 03 June 2026
As a Community Children's Nurse (CCN), you will provide a high level of specialist care to sick children and young people with complex health needs in the community setting. You will provide direct care and also support to parents and families, which may include teaching of specific care required to maintain the child at home when it is safe to do so.
You will also be expected to provide support to patients in their home known to the children’s acute community team and specialist nurse services, including completing wound reviews and home intravenous antibiotics.
You will be expected to work in partnership and liaise with the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Skills: Complete the Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) Specialist Community Nursing if this has not already been completed.
Teach and assess families/carers to carry out specific nursing care for a variety of conditions.
Be responsible for assessing, implementing, and evaluating individual children's care plans.
Work in collaboration with parents/carers to provide care to children and young people in accordance with the child’s plan of care.
Liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team when changes occur.
Support the provision of evidence-based care for children within the community setting with the support and guidance of the senior nurses and the clinical nurse specialist team.
Empower children/young people, families and carers to provide the complex care required.
Make informed clinical decisions using specialist knowledge and skills. Maintain safe working practices when using equipment and when training others in the delivery of the child’s care.
Co-ordinate and act as a keyworker for complex packages of care.
Utilise skills to effectively manage emotions in response to significant events (e.g., diagnosis of a condition or end of life care).
Management: Act as a deputy to team lead.
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
* Registered Nurse Child, or RSCN, or Registered under sub part 1 or sub part 2 of the NMC register
* Completed the Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) Specialist Community Nursing
* Teaching and Mentorship Course
* Educated to Degree level
Experience
* Experience working as a Band 5 in a Paediatric environment
* Previous Paediatric Community Nursing experience
* Experience of working with children with complex healthcare needs
Skills, abilities and knowledge
* Good theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical area of paediatrics; committed to family centred care
* Ability to access, plan, implement and evaluate care
* Have a good understanding of the principles of clinical governance and clinical supervision
* Hold a current full UK Driving Licence, with confidence to drive across a variety of rural and urban areas
* Able to recognise situations detrimental to health and act as required
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.
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