Band 8a Children’s Site Practitioner (CSP)

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 8a Children’s Site Practitioner (CSP) to lead and develop a high-quality clinical service for children and families. The CSP will provide visible leadership across children’s services, support decision-making, and help ensure safe patient care.

The role focuses on expert clinical advisory, bed management, and operational problem solving within the Directorate, driving improvements and safeguarding across pathways.

Qualifications

• RSCN / RN (Child) qualification required.
• Demonstrates knowledge of national policy context for nursing practice and safeguarding.
• Experience in acute children's services or similar high-acuity environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinically credible senior children's nursing service, leading assessment and resource allocation with the on-call medical team.
• Offer expert advice on children's nursing issues across the Directorate.
• Liaise with the Trust Site Team and bed managers to optimise bed use and report shortfalls to Service Manager/Senior Site Operations Manager.
• Collaborate with NICU Matrons and ward managers to review expenditure controls, cost pressures and risks in areas of responsibility.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Safeguarding children

Clinical decision-making

Education

RSCN / RN (Child)

Job description

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 8a Children’s Site Practitioner (CSP)

The closing date is 12 November 2026

We are seeking an exceptional, highly motivated, and experienced Children's Nurse to join our expanding Children's Directorate as a Children's Site Practitioner (CSP). This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished nursing leader to make a significant contribution to the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care for children, young people, and their families. As a CSP, you will provide visible, credible, and inspirational leadership across a range of children's services, promoting excellence in patient care, safety, and experience. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will deliver expert clinical advice and utilise advanced clinical skills to support high-quality decision-making and patient management across the Directorate. The post holder will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high standards of clinical care, maintaining effective patient flow, and supporting operational decision-making across the organisation. You will proactively identify risks, resource challenges, and service pressures, taking timely action to develop and implement effective solutions that support safe and efficient care delivery. This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic and forward-thinking nurse who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people, driving quality improvement, and leading teams through complex clinical and operational challenges.

Main duties of the job

Provide a clinically credible senior children's nursing service, demonstrating expert knowledge and clinical skills, as the practitioner responsible for the assessment of children's needs and utilisation of appropriate resources to meet them, in association with the on-call

Medical team and as part of the children's hospital at night team.

Provide expert advice on issues related to children's nursing.

Liaise with the Trust Site Team and bed managers to make sure that the bed base is used to optimum efficiency. Identify any shortfall to the Service

Manager/Senior Site Operations Manager if beds are closed for staffing or Infection reasons.

To work closely with the children's services/NICU Matrons and ward managers, to develop and implement systems for reviewing expenditure controls, cost pressures and risks related to areas of responsibility

About us

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.

Job 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.

Person Specification

EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS

• RSCN / RN (Child)

SKILLS/ ABILITIES

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the National Policy context for nursing practice and development, knowledge and understanding of quality and safety and evidence of up to date knowledge for Safeguarding children.

EXPERIENCE/ KNOWLEDGE

• Relevant children's experience in an acute setting

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.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£63,665 to £70,887 a yearPer Annum HCA inclusive