Job overview
This is a permanent role with full-time and part-time opportunities available (total 1.4 WTE). An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Children’s Nurse to join the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT), providing care for children and young people across Redbridge. The service operates within the Children’s Directorate and works closely with the Children’s Community Nursing Services in Barking and Havering.
The post holder will work autonomously in the home setting, demonstrating clinical expertise and a commitment to delivering high-quality, family-centred care. Excellent communication skills, a positive approach to service development, and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams are essential. Ongoing professional development is actively supported. Applicants must hold a full clean UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
Our busy Children’s Services operate across Queen’s Hospital, Romford, and King George’s Hospital, Ilford, providing a wide range of medical and surgical care. This includes two inpatient wards (one with a co-located four-bedded HDU), a CYPAU unit, a day unit with POSCU and haematology services, outpatient clinics with a GP ‘hot clinic’, a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and the Children’s Community Nursing Team. We also have a 32-cot Level 2 NICU with community and outreach support for discharged babies.
Children’s emergency care is delivered across two busy Emergency Departments, with a four-bedded Fit to Sit CCDU at Queen’s Hospital. The team is expanding and led by the Divisional Director of Nursing and Head of Nursing for Children and Young People. This role will be led by a Band 8a Lead Nurse for Children’s Community Nursing and supported by a senior nursing and multidisciplinary team. Staff benefit from corporate training, in-house leadership programmes, and university partnerships to support career progression.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously as a key member of the Specialist Children’s Community Nursing Team, managing a defined caseload of children and young people with complex health needs and disabilities within community settings. They will deliver high-quality, holistic, and family-centred nursing care to children and young people supported by the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT), providing direct clinical care for those with both acute and long-term conditions. The role focuses on effective case management to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and ensure continuity of care. The post holder will work in close partnership with children, young people, their families and carers, and a wide range of multidisciplinary and multi-agency professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered Children’s Nurse (RN Child) with current NMC registration
2. Must hold a valid, clean driving licence
Desirable criteria
3. Community nursing qualification (SPQ) or willingness to work toward one
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Experience working autonomously and managing caseloads
Desirable criteria
5. Experience supervising junior staff or students
6. Experience in community or outreach nursing
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.