Staff Nurse Band 5 - Outpatients EpsomBand 5

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Carshalton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a qualified Staff Nurse Band 5 to join the Community Children's Nursing Service at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. The role offers a chance to provide high-quality care to children and young people in a community setting, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Applicants should be motivated, experienced, and possess a valid driver's license.

Benefits

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• 2 years post graduate general paediatric experience preferred.
• Ability to work in community settings.
• Car ownership and driving skills required.

Responsibilities

• Support transition of children from hospital to home.
• Manage clinical caseload and assessments.
• Provide specialist knowledge in paediatric care.

Skills

IV Competent

CVAD Competent

Experience in paediatric settings

Education

Registered Children's Nurse

Teaching and mentorship qualification

Community Children's Nursing Qualification

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22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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Job overview

Are you a Qualified paediatric nurse interested in gaining experience in a Community Children's nursing Band 6 Role?

An exciting opportunity a permanent post in the Community Children's Nursing Service, based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Children's Nurse, who is passionate about providing high quality care to Children /Young people in the community setting . You will ideally have 2 years post graduate general paediatric experience . Car owner and driver essential.

Epsom and St Helier children’s services have been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’ as well as being given great feedback from the London Healthy Partnership peer review. Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children is based at the St Helier site. Children are seen in the dedicated Paediatric A&E which sits alongside the adult ED; Outpatient clinics, Ward and assessment unit.

We recognise that our team members are our greatest asset – it’s their hard work and effort that really makes a difference. That’s why we encourage our staff to fulfil their full potential. We’ll do everything we can to support you, along with offering excellent learning and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

With support from Senior CCN Service members you will :

• Support the transition of Children and Young people from Hospital to home.
• Provide specialist knowledge to meet the diverse range of needs of patients and their families in a variety of community and hospital settings, acting as a resource of paediatric expertise and providing advice to other professionals, promoting evidence based practice.
• You will hold a clinical caseload within your scope of competency
• You will haveresponsibilityfor the ongoing assessment,care planning, implementation and evaluation of outcomes of specialised nursing care in partnership withchildren, young people, their families.
• Work in partnership with the wider Multi disiplinary team.
• Safeguarding
• Documentation as per NMC
• Main Clinical responsibilities will be ; Medicines management, blood sampling and administration of medications IV , IM , S/C and CVAD'S. Wound management, and Care of Children and young people with Complex health needs.
• Effective Team Player with abilityto work autonomously in patients homes. Working collaboratively with Children /Young people/ their families and multidisciplinary teams

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role

Person specification

Experience and Skills

• IV Competent
• CVAD Competent
• Comprehensive experience working in paediatric settings
• Community Children's nursing Qualification
• Experience working in a paediatric community setting

Qualifications

• Registered Childrens Nurse
• Teaching and mentorship qualification

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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Job overview

Are you a Qualified paediatric nurse interested in gaining experience in a Community Children's nursing Band 6 Role?

An exciting opportunity a permanent post in the Community Children's Nursing Service, based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and enthusiastic Children's Nurse, who is passionate about providing high quality care to Children /Young people in the community setting . You will ideally have 2 years post graduate general paediatric experience . Car owner and driver essential.

Epsom and St Helier children’s services have been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’ as well as being given great feedback from the London Healthy Partnership peer review. Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children is based at the St Helier site. Children are seen in the dedicated Paediatric A&E which sits alongside the adult ED; Outpatient clinics, Ward and assessment unit.

We recognise that our team members are our greatest asset – it’s their hard work and effort that really makes a difference. That’s why we encourage our staff to fulfil their full potential. We’ll do everything we can to support you, along with offering excellent learning and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

With support from Senior CCN Service members you will :

Support the transition of Children and Young people from Hospital to home.

Provide specialist knowledge to meet the diverse range of needs of patients and their families in a variety of community and hospital settings, acting as a resource of paediatric expertise and providing advice to other professionals, promoting evidence based practice.

You will hold a clinical caseload within your scope of competency

You will haveresponsibilityfor the ongoing assessment,care planning, implementation and evaluation of outcomes of specialised nursing care in partnership withchildren, young people, their families.

Work in partnership with the wider Multi disiplinary team.

Safeguarding

Documentation as per NMC

Main Clinical responsibilities will be ; Medicines management, blood sampling and administration of medications IV , IM , S/C and CVAD'S. Wound management, and Care of Children and young people with Complex health needs.

Effective Team Player with abilityto work autonomously in patients homes. Working collaboratively with Children /Young people/ their families and multidisciplinary teams

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role

Person specification

Experience and Skills

Essential criteria

IV Competent

CVAD Competent

Comprehensive experience working in paediatric settings

Desirable criteria

Community Children's nursing Qualification

Experience working in a paediatric community setting

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Childrens Nurse

Teaching and mentorship qualification

car driver /owner

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

______________________________________________________ Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at: Telephone: [phone] Text: 07501066267 Email:@. Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.______________________________________________________

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

NameCarrie ReeveJob titleLead Nurse, Children's Community Nursing ServiceEmail addressTelephone number07721 599496Additional information

Please do contact for further discussion or an informal visit.