Children's Community Specialist Nurse | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Peterborough is seeking an experienced Paediatric Nurse to join their Children's Community Specialist Nursing Team. You will provide holistic care for children with diverse health needs within their homes and clinics. This role involves planning and coordinating nursing care, ensuring continuity and promoting the health and dignity of young patients. A passion for leadership and excellent communication skills are essential. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the community while working closely with a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with acute and complex nursing needs.
• Ability to travel daily during working hours.
• Experience in a leadership role is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled paediatric nursing care to children and young people at home or clinics.
• Act as a named nurse for a caseload of children, planning and coordinating care.
• Maintain detailed client records in line with organizational policies.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Time management skills

Clinical competence

Job description

Are you a passionate, innovative, and experienced Paediatric Nurse?

Have you got experience working with children and young people with acute, short-term, long-term, or complex nursing needs?

Do you want to deliver holistic nursing care within a professional and supportive team?

Are you keen to develop your leadership skills and influence quality clinical practice?

We have a great opportunity for you to join our Children's Community Specialist Nursing (CCN) Team. You will be leading holistic assessment, care planning, and review of clinical care for children and young people with a range of health needs to optimise their health outcomes.

All our CCNs take the lead on an area of community clinical practice, e.g., IVs, enteral, palliative care, respiratory, oncology. It is important for you to develop and continually influence good quality practice in the community and with partner organisations.

We recognize it may feel daunting to move into a leadership role in the community setting, where you'll be expected to lead and work independently. However, you will be working with a supportive team who will guide and support you.

The post requires the job holder to have:

• Excellent communication skills
• Time management skills
• Clinical competence to deliver clinical nursing care independently and respond to unexpected demands and scenarios in a variety of community settings

The ability to travel daily during the working day, sometimes at short notice, is therefore essential.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organization dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research, and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-caliber candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, your application will be rejected from the process.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Provide skilled paediatric nursing care to children and young people within their own home or other applicable venues such as outpatient clinics to ensure families are supported in the care of their children at home.

Ensure continuity of care is established and appropriate support is available for children, young people, and families, with the aim of preventing unnecessary admission or attendance at hospital and facilitating earlier discharge where appropriate from both local and tertiary hospitals.

Act as a named nurse for a caseload of children and young people, responsible for planning and coordinating care, delivering, and evaluating the care given. Must use own initiative and work autonomously to provide skilled care. Supervision and support are available from the Team Leader and senior CCN.

Complete accurate client records in line with CPFT policy. Be aware of the requirements of both paper and electronic record keeping.

Maintain excellent communication with the child and family on the caseload and, as their advocate, ensure they have easy contact with the team, appropriate information, and support. Records should reflect the child's care, present condition, and progress and be available to colleagues.

Promote the health, comfort, dignity, privacy, and quality of life for children and young people.

This advert closes on Wednesday 23 Jul 2025.