Senior Community Children's Nurse | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sidcup; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Sidcup is looking for a Community Children's Nurse to provide specialized nursing care for children with diverse health needs. The role involves leadership, supporting junior staff, and managing a varied caseload. Candidates should have experience in community or acute settings and a desire to develop their skills. This position offers the opportunity to integrate into a dedicated children's nursing team and contribute significantly to patient care.

Qualifications

• Experienced children’s nurse with community or acute setting experience.
• Willingness to develop specialized skills and knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard evidenced based nursing care for children.
• Hold a varied caseload of children with complex and short-term needs.
• Support junior staff members in their development.

Skills

Leadership skills

Experience in community settings

Specialized nursing knowledge

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

Job description

Overview

The Community Children’s nursing team is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To provide a high standard of evidenced based nursing care for children and young people with the following conditions: acute and long term conditions, children with disabilities and complex conditions including those requiring palliative and end of life care. To provide clear visible leadership and professional clinical expertise to the Band 5 Children’s Community Nurses in the whole team to ensure every aspect of the child and families experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence based manner.

Responsibilities

• Work at weekends and bank holidays on a rotational rota and support a 24 hour end of life care as required.
• Hold a caseload of children who have varied health conditions, ranging from CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring a short term referral under the remit of our H@H service.
• Support more junior staff members to develop skills and confidence in the role of the CCN.
• Work closely with the band 7 specialist nurses who will support learning and development within the scope of the role as a band 6 nurse.

Qualifications and experience

• Experienced children’s nurse with leadership skills and experience in community or an acute setting.
• Interest in or willingness to develop and extend specialised skills and knowledge.

About Oxleas and values

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environments. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

You will work within an integrated Children\'s Nursing team covering both CCN & H@H, the role as a community children\'s nurse is highly varied. We are one large team covering both borough\'s of Greenwich & Bexley. The caseload is varied with referrals of CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring rapid service input to enable CYP to be discharged from hospital early.

Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role responsibilities.

This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Sep 2025