Children's Community Nursing Sister

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Children’s Community Nursing Sister to join the team on a fixed-term basis. The post supports children and families in home and community settings, including schools, with complex needs and life-limiting conditions.

The role requires Band 6 experience, IV/central line competency where applicable, and the ability to deputise for the team leader.

Qualifications

• Registered Child Nurse with relevant degree and registration
• Experience delivering teaching and mentoring
• Community Specialist Practitioner or willingness to undertake
• Paediatric life support up to date
• Advanced communication skills training
• Counselling training
• Children's community degree

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care for children and young people in the community
• Deputise for team leader and supervise junior staff
• Lead areas of responsibility and review guidelines/NICE standards
• Deliver nurse-led clinics and participate in audits
• Mentor and teach staff and students across community settings
• Support health and education staff across schools and SEND settings
• Contribute to 24/7 palliative care cover and community care coordination

Skills

Verbal communication

Teaching / training

Guideline development

IT literacy

Interagency collaboration

ENB Mentorship

Education

BSc Hons Child Nursing

Teaching & mentoring qualification

Community Specialist Practitioner (or equivalent)

Paediatric life support

Advanced communication skills training

Counselling training

Childrens community degree

Job description

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Children's Community Nursing Sister

The closing date is 15 November 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced children's nurse to join the children's community nursing team on a fixed term basis . Our versatile and responsive team work with children and young people at home, special schools and other community settings. They provide direct nursing care, support and education and training to children and families with a variety of medical conditions and complex needs.

The team support children with acute and complex conditions and support children and their families with life limiting conditions.The team support Paediatric Virtual Ward within the community setting .

Main duties of the job

The applicant must be dynamic, dedicated, self-motivated, and able to work well independently but also within a team. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential for the role as the successful candidate will work with children, young people and families and the wider multidisciplinary team in the community.

As a band 6 nurse the applicant will be expected to deputise for the team leader when necessary and supervise junior members of staff.

The applicant must be either an experienced senior band 5 or currently a band 6 nurse with Intravenous/central line competency. Experience of ward and ideally community setting .

The post holder will hold the Community Specialist Practitioner Course qualification or be willing to undertake this as the opportunity arises

The post holder will be based at Newton Drive Health Centre working alongside colleagues from various health professions. They can expect to be well supported via various routes including Trust induction, local team induction programme, clinical supervision, and Team meetings, Appraisal / Personal Development Review / Personal Development Plan etc.

About us

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and operates within a regional health economy catchment area that spans Lancashire and South Cumbria. The Trust are a large, integrated provider of acute and community services to the 445,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and provide urgent and emergency care services to around 18 million people who visit Blackpool every year.

We provide specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology services across this region and host the National Artificial Eye Service, which provides services across England.

With patients and families at the heart of all we do, we are committed to creating a culture that empowers our staff and inspires us all to deliver first class clinical care.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical care and treatments of children and young people within the Childrens Community Nursing Team .

The team support children and young people age 0-16 years and up until 19 years for those with SEND

The post holder will support young people in the process of transition to adulthood services and ensure they are fully supported with their required onward health and care needs

The post holder will support with the coordination of Virtual ward and participate in daily ward rounds to support early discharge from hospital and provision of responsive follow up care at home

It is expected the post holder will take at least one lead area of responsibility within the team, championing this work, reviewing National Guidelines, Standards or NICE and maintaining a quality and research driven service/care.

The post holder will support directly with nurse lead clinics and new team initiatives and undertake the required audits to demonstrate effectiveness of new practice developments

The experienced post holder will directly support junior staff and students ensuring strong effective mentorship and guidance

They will develop and deliver comprehensive teaching and training to education and nursery settings

They will directly support children and staff within our 4 local special schools ensuring children are well supported with their health and care needs comprehensively understood by the staff caring for them within their school day

The post holder will be flexible with their hours to provide support before school and in the evening, including contributing towards a 24/7 palliative care service.

The successful applicant will need to be a car driver to enable them to undertake the essential travel within this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

• Registered Children's Nurse - Bsc hons child nursing
• Qualification in teaching and mentoring /or experience in formal training delivery
• Community Specialist Practitioner or equivalent /willingness to undertake
• paediatric life support training up to date
• Advanced Communication skills training
• Counselling training
• children's community degree

Experience

• experience in working within a children's community nursing team
• At least 3 years experience working as a band 5 staff nurse
• Experience of working autonomously, delivering patient care
• Experience of multi agency working and collaborative working
• Experience of working with children with complex medical needs
• experience of leadership and management and managing change
• Experience of high level of complex communication experiences
• Experience of at least 2-3 years working as a band 5 staff nurse
• experience of undertaking IV therapy ,venopuncture and port management
• Experience of transition and preparing for adulthood

Skills

• excellent verbal and communication skills
• Skilled in teaching and delivering effective training to others
• skilled in the development of guidelines and pathways
• IT literate and experienced with systems and processes
• oAbility to work with colleagues across health, education and social care settings
• oENB Mentorship or equivalent

Knowledge

• evidence of professional updating
• understanding of safeguarding procedures
• understanding of clinical governance and risk assessment
• working knowledge of SEND legislation
• oexperience of audit/data collection

other

• Able to prioritise work
• Able to work well with the MDT and outside agencies/third sector
• oflexible attitude to work

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.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust