Paediatric Community Nurse

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Staff development opportunities

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse to join the Community Nursing team. This full-time, permanent role focuses on delivering high-quality, compassionate paediatric care in the community and supporting families to manage their child’s health needs outside hospital settings.

Essential criteria include registered Sick Children’s Nurse with mentorship, current paediatric experience, and strong communication across MDTs.

Qualifications

• Current paediatric experience.
• Ability to work across sites and MDT.
• Commitment to safeguarding and audit where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for nursing management of a caseload of children in the community.
• Be the key health professional and care co-ordinator for children and young people at home.
• Provide high-quality patient care to children and families in the community.
• Train families to manage medical conditions at home.
• Support care planning, delivery and evaluation to meet standards.
• Facilitate early discharge and aftercare in the community.
• Respect families' wishes regarding end-of-life arrangements.

Skills

Paediatric nursing

Community health

Communication

MDT liaison

Education

Registered Sick Children’s Nurse

Mentorship course

Job description

Full-Time | Permanent Position

Make a difference where it matters most — helping children and young people thrive at home and in their communities. Are you a passionate, motivated and caring children’s nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference? We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse to join our small, friendly and supportive Children’s Community Nursing (CCN) team. This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver high-quality, compassionate care to children and young people, while supporting their families to feel confident and empowered in managing their child’s health needs outside the hospital environment.

Job Overview

Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse

Full-Time | Permanent Position

What will the role involve?

• Delivering outstanding care
• Empowering families
• Making a lasting difference
• Developing and inspiring
• Supporting the next generation of students

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility and accountability for the nursing management and autonomous delivery of care to a caseload of children with chronic, complex, acute and palliative care needs within the community setting.
• Act as the key health professional for children and young people and act as their advocate and co-ordinators of their care in the community.
• Provide professional, high-quality patient care to children & families in the community.
• To provide training locally to enable children and young people to manage their own medical conditions or support others in doing so to minimise restrictions on the child or young person’s activities.
• Assist the Team Leader in effective care planning, implementation and evaluation of care that meets professional and clinical standards/ guidelines.
• Facilitate early discharge and effective aftercare within the community setting, preventing admission and readmission to hospital.
• To aspire to accommodate families wishes of where they would like to reside when a child or young person reaches end of life.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Current paediatric experience

Desirable criteria

• Community experience.
• Safeguarding experience.
• Participation in audit activity.
• Experiencing monitoring and contributes to protecting children and young people at risk.
• Acute experience.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Sick Children’s Nurse (NMC Sub –Part 1 (Children) /RN Child.
• Mentorship/teaching course.

Desirable criteria

• Working towards community nursing degree.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates good communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work with and liaise across sites, within the MDT and other NHS trusts and professionals.
• Aware of key principles of paediatric care and implications for practice.
• Use of clinical judgement and individual decision-making regarding nursing care requirements; assesses, plans, delivers, evaluates and records care.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.