Job Introduction
Children's Community Staff Nurse
You will join a friendly and experienced team who work closely together, support each other and share learning.
You will have access to excellent training, a flexible-first working approach and a culture where your ideas are welcomed and respected. You will also have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 NHS Agenda for Change salary with an NHS pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies
- Online and in-person wellbeing support including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
- Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and development through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning Enterprise team
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold Good or Outstanding CQC ratings
As a Band 5 Community Children’s Nurse, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred 1:1 nursing care to a young person within a school setting in Sunbury.
Working autonomously, you will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care to support the child’s complex health needs throughout the school day.
You will work closely with the child, their family, school staff and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective and seamless care.
This role requires the ability to work without direct supervision, manage your own workload, make sound clinical decisions and respond confidently to changing healthcare needs, while maintaining the highest standards of professional practice in line with NMC guidelines.
This role is Term-Time Only
Main Responsibilities
- Provide dedicated 1:1 clinical support for a young person within a school setting, ensuring their health, wellbeing and safety throughout the school day.
- Responsibilities include tracheostomy care, long-term ventilation management, clinical assessments, care planning, safeguarding, emergency response and maintaining accurate records.
- Working autonomously during term time (Monday–Friday), you will collaborate with families, schools and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred care in line with NMC standards and evidence-based practice.
- Strong communication skills, clinical competence and experience with specialist equipment such as ventilators and saturation monitors are essential.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered Children’s Nurse with evidence of recent professional development
- Good understanding of community health services
- Confident communicator with strong interpersonal, written and verbal skills
- Broad clinical knowledge with the ability to prioritise and manage your workload
- Reliable, flexible and calm under pressure
- Confident and assertive in clinical decision-making
- Clear understanding of community health services
- Tracheostomy and ventilation management
Desirable
- Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor (or equivalent mentorship qualification)
- Experience caring for unwell children in the community or hospital
- Experience of clinical audit or supervision
Other Requirements
- Access to a car insured for business use to travel across Surrey
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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