Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Children's Nurse
The closing date is 01 December 2026

Job summary
** Previous applicants need not apply **

Are you a passionate, energetic and an experienced Community Children's Nurse?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a part time band 6 Senior Children's Nurse to work within the Bexley and Greenwich Community Children's Nursing Team and integrated Hospital at Home Team.

The post holder will be a Children's Nurse with extensive knowledge and experience of working within the community, thus being an exceptional role model and able to demonstrate evidence of up to date academic development post registration.

The team provides a seven day service from 08.00 to 20:30, there is also 24 hour on call provision for children & young people who require end of life care at home.

Main duties of the job
The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing 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.

This is a post suitable for a Children's Community Nurse who should have experience of working within a Community Children's Nursing Team.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Details
Date posted: 12 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year pro rata pa inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 277-8347345-CYP-A
Job locations: Acorns Children's Centre Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, DA14 6LT, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
You will work within an integrated Children's Nursing team covering both CCN/HAH, 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• RSCN or RN (child) Diploma / degree level.
• Evidence of significant professional development in children's nursing.
• Current NMC registration

Desirable

• Practice Assessors qualification

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of post registration experience of working autonomously with children in the community.
• Evidence of working as band 6 children's nurse in a relevant area of children's nursing
• Experience in assessing complex care needs, planning implementation and evaluation of care plans.

Desirable

• Experience of relevant clinical competence
• Experience in teaching other staff and carers and assessing their competencies

Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential

• Ability to work with children with complex health needs
• Ability to lead and work as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills and inter personal skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Acorns Children's Centre Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, DA14 6LT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Matron, Community Children's Services, Becky Linane, becky.linane@nhs.net, 02030040092

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