Children's Community Nurse

Queen Elizabeth Hospital; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Elizabeth Hospital is seeking a Community Children's Nurse (CCN) to deliver high-level specialist care to children with complex needs in the community setting. You will support families at home, teach carers, and coordinate home care as part of a MDT approach.

Role includes managing wound reviews, home IV antibiotics, and liaising with the multidisciplinary team to update and evaluate individual care plans.

Qualifications

• NHS/community nursing experience preferred.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Nursing (or willingness to complete).
• Ability to teach and assess families/carers in home care.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level specialist care to sick children and young people in the community.
• Support families and teach required nursing care for home settings.
• Lead or support wound reviews and home IV antibiotics where appropriate.
• Coordinate care with the multidisciplinary team and act as keyworker for complex packages of care.

Skills

Pediatric nursing

Community health

Wound care

IV antibiotics administration

Family teaching

Team collaboration

Education

PGDip Specialist Community Nursing

Tools

EPR (Electronic Patient Record)

Job description

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. As well as providing direct care will provide support to parents and families, which may include teaching of specific care required to maintain the child at home whenever it is safe to do so.

It is also expected that the CCN will 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 also be expected to work in partnership and liaise with the multi-disciplinary/multi-agency team.

Clinical Skills:

Complete the Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) Specialist Community Nursing if this has not already been completed.

To teach and assess families/carers to carry out specific nursing care for a variety of conditions.

To 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.

To liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team when changes occur.

To 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 the children/young people, families and carers to provide the complex care required.

To 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.

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.