Community Children's Nurse

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Community Children's Nurse to deliver high-quality, family-centered care. The role involves working collaboratively with families and other professionals, providing tailored support for children with various health needs. You'll need to be a qualified Children's Nurse with experience in Paediatric Nursing. The position offers a salary range from £38,682 to £46,580 per annum pro rata plus a 5% High-Cost Area Supplement.

Benefits

5% High-Cost Area Supplement

Support for flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience within Paediatric Nursing.
• Understanding of current policies and documents.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist nursing interventions to children with health needs.
• Provide holistic, person-centred care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical skills awareness

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

Community Nurse Practitioner Qualification

Job description

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Community Children's Nurse

The closing date is 19 November 2025

We are recruiting for a Community Children's Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Are you a compassionate and motivated children's nurse looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and their families? We are seeking an enthusiastic children's nurse to join our dynamic team, providing high quality, family centred care in community settings.

You will provide care, support, education and advice to children and their families supporting a generic caseload, working within community and hospital setting.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121 per annum pro rata.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children's Nurse will deliver specialist nursing interventions to children and young people with acute, chronic and complex health needs in a community setting including family homes, nurseries and schools.

To work collaboratively with families, hospital teams and other community services to provide holistic, person centred care.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.

Provide nursing care including respiratory, oncology, rheumatology, palliative and end of life care.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Registered Children's Nurse
• Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Willingness to undertake further training as required
• ENB 998/Mentorship and Preceptorship Qualification
• Community Experience
• Community Nurse Practitioner Qualification

Previous Experience

• Post qualification experience within Paediatric Nursing
• Proven management experience (Ward or Equivalent)
• Understanding of current policies and documents
• Experience supporting caseload of patients
• Having the ability to work under pressure to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience in writing, implementing and evaluating treatment plans
• Sound understanding of Young people and the difficulties they can experience and is confident to work with them and their carers
• Used to dealing with sensitive issues
• Experience of delivering training, presenting and assessing professionals, families, students.
• Experience writing/reviewing and updating policy considering new evidence based practice.
• Experience working as an autonomous practitioner
• Experience of audit or research
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision

Skills & Knowledge

• Awareness clinical skills, updates and expectations within Paediatric Community Nursing
• Ability to demonstrate leadership

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata plus 5% High-Cost Area Supplement