Band 5 Jessie May Children\'s Nurse

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading community health provider is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse to join the Jessie May Care Team in Chippenham. You will deliver specialist palliative nursing care to children with complex needs, ensuring their emotional and physical requirements are met. This part-time role (25.5 hours per week) requires excellent communication skills, a valid UK driving licence, and a commitment to providing exceptional care. Join us and make a real difference to families in their homes.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Flexible access to wages

Career development opportunities

Access to mental wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven ability in palliative care for children with complex medical needs.
• Skilled in communication and establishing good relationships with children and families.
• Valid UK driving licence is essential for travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and effective respite care to children.
• Administer medication and assist with personal hygiene.
• Listen to the child and family, offering emotional support.

Skills

Compassionate communication

Holistic nursing care

Tracheostomy management

Seizure management

Enteral feeding

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Job Summary

Do you have a passion for delivering compassionate, holistic nursing care to children with life-limiting and life‑threatening conditions? Would you like to make a real difference to families in their own homes?

Join our small, dedicated Jessie May Care Team in the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) area, where you will provide specialist palliative nursing and respite care to children and young people in the community.

You will provide skilled holistic nursing care to children and young people who have complex medical needs within the family home or other environments where respite is requested including, on occasions, hospital‑based care. You will also provide emotional support and advice to the children, and parent/carers on the caseload, and will be responsible for the planning, implementation and the evaluation of individualised care during each respite visit in the absence of the parents or carers.

You will be skilled in communicating, establishing and maintaining good relationships with the children, young people and their families on the caseload and work effectively within the Jessie May Care Team.

This is an extremely rewarding role that is part‑time (25.5 hours per week).

Travel is required; a valid UK driving licence is essential for this role.

Main Duties

• Provide safe and effective respite care to children on the BSW Jessie May caseload. Care to always be provided in line with child specific care plan(s).
• Maintain clinical skills and competency on a range of complex health needs, to include (but not exclusive to): tracheostomy management, enteral feeding, seizure management, long‑term ventilation, oral suction, nursing observation and assessment.
• Follow any emergency procedures/guidelines for the child or young person receiving care.
• Administer medication in line with medicines administration charts and service policy.
• Assist with dressing, undressing, personal hygiene, toileting in a sensitive manner, encouraging the child or young person to be as independent as possible within their capability.
• Ensure the child and their family are at the centre of everything we do. Provide care that is consistent with their wishes and ensure the voice of the child is heard and underpins everything that you do.
• Actively listen to the child and family, and offer emotional support using empathetic communication.
• Keep records of all care given and observations made in accordance with HCRG Care Group policy.
• Identify the need for any additional emotional support for the child and the parent/carer and communicate this in an appropriate manner to the care team and Jessie May team around the family.

Benefits

• £31,049 – £37,796 (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback and voucher offers.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face‑to‑face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life‑management help, as well as career coaching and counselling.
• Access to e‑Learning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ring‑fenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About Us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work‑environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Employment Details

Location: HCRG Care Group, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 1BN.

Contract: Permanent, Part‑time (25.5 hours per week).

Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year (Band 5, Agenda for Change).

Reference number: HCRGCG/TP/40134/17958.

Date posted: 18 December 2025.

Disclosure

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.