Band 5 Registered Children’s Staff Nurse

BHR Hospitals; Ilford; Remote; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Band 5 Registered Children’s Staff Nurse at Queen’s Hospital in Romford seeks a compassionate, capable nurse to lead on pediatric care across a busy trust. You’ll assess, plan, and deliver evidence-based nursing with support from Education and Clinical Nurse Educators, maintaining high standards of care.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, supervising learners, and contributing to Martha’s Rule initiatives, with opportunities for professional development and progression.

Qualifications

• RSCN, RN (Child Branch) qualification and NMC registration.
• Experience caring for children in a hospital setting.
• Ability to supervise learners and junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and plan, implement and evaluate care.
• Occasionally in-charge of ward/shift and supervise staff.
• Support professional development and education for junior staff.

Skills

Calm under pressure

RCN forums

Education

RSCN (Child)

Job description

Band 5 Registered Children’s Staff Nurse

Band 5

Main area Woman's & Children's Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 162-8070-WC

Site Queen's Hospital Town Romford Salary £36,943 - £44,900 per annum inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 08/11/2026 23:59

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here

Our busy Children’s Services span two sites – Queens Hospital and King George’s Hospital.. We deliver a comprehensive range of general medical and surgical services to our local population and have two inpatient wards, one with a co-located 6 bedded HDU, we also have 2 Assessment Unit’s across the sites (CYPAU - QH and Dahlia - KGH).

There is a day unit with a POSCU and haematology service, two Children’s Outpatient departments with a GP ‘hot clinic’, a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists and two Children’s Community Nursing teams serving the tri-boroughs.

Our well established 32 cot level 2 NICU has both community and outreach teams to support babies on discharge.
We have a well-established Children’s Site Practitioner team who have oversight of all areas each shift and support with patient flow, escalations of care and coordinate our new Martha’s Rule initiative.

Our Children’s nursing team is led by our Director of Nursing for Babies, Children and Young People. This is a Trust wide role to ensure children and young people receive high-quality care wherever they access services across our organisation.

We have in house leadership programmes and work with a range of universities to ensure you can progress through academic pathways to support your career development.

If you are an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated nurse who is committed, caring and compassionate come and join our fantastic team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for assessment of care needs of patients, planning programmes of care, implementation and evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision.

To assist with education and supervision of learners. At times expected to being in-charge of the ward / shift and to supervise and co-ordinate other staffs as appropriate, develops self and others professionally.

When you join our team, you will have lots of opportunities to expand your knowledge and ensure your skills are kept up to date with current evidence-based learning. You will be supported by Clinical Nurse Educators, Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Quality Managers, alongside our friendly multidisciplinary teams. You will receive Trust induction with corporate training and bespoke modules for Children’s Nurses.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good 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 transform the A&E at Queen’s 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 North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. 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 work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

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

• RSCN, RN (Child Branch) qualification and registration with NMC

Skills/ Abilities

• Able to work well under pressure, demonstrating a calm and resilient approach
• Member of external national forums e.g. RCN children’s forums.

Experience/ Knowledge

• A collaborative team member who role models excellent care and compassion both within and outside the Trust for Children’s Nursing.

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 Wendy Gillham Job title Ward manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01708435000

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone [phone]

We have a wide range of flexible, temporary and part-time opportunities.