Senior Children's Community Nurse

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in London seeks a Senior Children's Community Nurse responsible for providing specialist nursing care to children in their homes. This position involves facilitating early discharge, preventing hospital admissions, and working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates must be registered nurses with community specialist qualifications and demonstrate excellent communication and clinical skills in a community setting.

Benefits

In-house training

Professional development opportunities

Automatic pool cars for team use

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical training.
• Demonstrate awareness of clinical governance and risk management.
• Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others in a clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality specialist nursing care to children in their homes.
• Facilitate early discharge and prevent hospital admissions.
• Manage a group of patients within the specialty, delivering personalized care.

Skills

Advanced assessment

Time management

Teaching and mentoring

Communication skills

Ability to work alone

Education

RN child Nurse on the NMC register

Community Specialist Practitioner

Job description

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Client:

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job overview

Evelina London is at the heart of a network of children’s health services in Lambeth and Southwark and across South-East England. We provide a comprehensive range of children’s health services, so that we are able to look after patients from antenatal diagnosis through childhood, into adolescence and on into adult services.

The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner providing high quality specialist nursing care to children in their homes. The post holder will be responsible for facilitating early discharge, reduce length of stay and prevent hospital admissions. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area. Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles.

Car driver essential. Pool cars (inc. automatic) are provided for team use.

Closing Date: Midnight 15th August 2025

Proposed interview Date: 29th August 2025

Main duties of the job

The Evelina Children's Community Nursing Team works closely with acute services in local and specialist hospitals to ensure a seamless pathway of care for the child on discharge from the acute setting. Using evidence based practice and knowledge you will provide continuing responsibility for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of holistic nursing care for patients with both acute, long term and complex conditions.

You will provide expert support, training and advice to health visitors, school nurses and other professionals to ensure the broad range of needs of the client caseload are met in all community settings including home, nursery, specialist and mainstream school. The successful candidate will carry out and support specialist procedures in the community eg administration of intravenous antibiotics and chemotherapy, administration of medicines, wound care, care of central venous access devices, changing of tracheostomy and naso-gastric tubes.

Previous experience of working in a community setting and/or working autonomously with acute nursing skills is essential for this post.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job role is community based across Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark and works collaboratively with Primary, secondary and emergency care providers.

• Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised individualised and personalised direct patient care
• Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.
• Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
• Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products, to ensure safe custody of medications in the home setting.
• Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action.
• Act as an advocate for patients, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate nursing interventions.
• To carry our specialist procedures in the community settings eg administration of intravenous antibiotics, care of central venous access devices and changing of naso gastric tubes.
• To regularly attend and liaise with acute hospital colleagues to enable timely and safe discharge from hospital and appropriate follow up in the community.
• Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional competence.
• Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures to area.
• To assess care needs and liaise with other professionals in order to assist them to develop a care package and to provide clinical/professional advice relating to this.
• To use clinical judgement and expertise in assessing and implementing change during clinical visits eg :assessment of respiratory condition and management of change.
• Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available.
• Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.
• Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients, ensuring the coordination of ongoing care.
• A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news such as caring for the terminally ill patients and the event of death.
• Assess educational and information needs for patients and families, and devise plans to ensure need are met.
• To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment and management. Provide advice contributing to the wellbeing of the patient and participate in health promotion to improve health and prevent re attendance.
• Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the ambulatory care service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
• Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationship between clinicians, practitioners and managers within the specialty, across the Trust and in the community including GP’s, Health visitors, School nurses and the Children Community Service
• Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review.

We will provide the successful candidate with the relevant in-house training and further education supported by our education department. You will be enrolled on a community development pathway that will include Evelina London Foundations in Children’s Community Care (EL FiCC) and Evelina London Paediatric Advanced Clinical Assessment (El Paca) that will mirror an enhanced skills pathway.

Please see attached Job description document for full details.

Person specification

Qualification/Education/skills

• RN child Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.
• Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
• Advanced assessment course or relevant PGDIP course relevant to role or willingness to undertake same
• SSSAP or Equivalent
• Community Specialist Practitioner

Skills/Experience

• Experience of teaching/ assessing/ supervising others in a clinical setting
• Demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management

Skills/knowledge

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
• Able to work alone
• Ability to prioritise work effectively
• Time management and organisation skills
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. Dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
• Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.