Children's Community Nurse

Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced band 5/6 nurse to become a member of the Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNT).

The post holder will work under the direction of the Children's Community Team leader with responsibility for, the assessment of care needs for all patients, ensuring appropriately planned care is both implemented and evaluated.

Children's Community Nurses provide care at home to facilitate the prevention of admission or reduction in hospitalisation.

The post holder will be passionate about nursing children and working in partnership with the families, acting as an advocate and facilitating treatment and nursing care at home.

Main duties of the job
The service is open 9-5 seven days a week, including bank holidays. This role is offered part time 15 hours per week, with some weekend and bank holiday working required.

We are looking for a registered children's nurse who is motivated, forward thinking and has a sound professional knowledge and excellent communication skills. You should have the ability to prioritize and work both independently and as part of a team.

In this post you will provide highly skilled, quality clinical and non-clinical care, which is outcome focused, to support children and their families, to enable them to live, participate and achieve in all aspects of life, eg at home and within their community. The workload is varied and interesting with opportunity to develop further knowledge and skills.

You will also be responsible for providing support to junior team members through developing their skills & completing staff appraisals.

You will teach parents, carers and other health professionals as required and will mentor pre and post registered students. In return you will work within a highly supportive nurse-led service with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and work closely with clinical nurse specialists, gain management experience and work collaboratively with the paediatricians to plan, implement and evaluate patient care.

About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Details
Date posted: 25 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
inclusive of Outer HCAS pro-rata, per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 391-NMUH-8197119
Job locations: North Middlesex Hospital, Sterling Way, London, N181QX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

Person Specification
Other
Essential

• Must have clean driving license and have access to own car

Education & Qualifications
Essential

• RSCN/RN (Child)
• Full NMC Registration

Desirable

• Specialist qualification e.g. oncology course
• Relevant Community qualification

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Ability to implement and use a model of child health nursing care in the community
• Ability to support staff in planning and delivering care
• Ability to identify deficits in the quality of care and take appropriate action
• Ability to raise and discuss issues within the multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Able to distinguish between professional roles as required e.g. CCN/HV/School Nurse
• Ability to write and formulate policies
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to ensure accurate and detailed documentation is maintained at all times
• Ability to input and retrieve information from IT systems
• Ability to deal effectively with stressed, anxious parents and children (and other carers)
• Ability to discuss the subject of death and dying appropriately and effectively and to support parents, children and other staff
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication
• Ability to function within a team whilst ensuring links with the whole multidisciplinary health care team
• Ability to advise/seek advice from relevant professionals on behalf of children, parents and other staff members
• Ability to mediate to resolve issues which cause difficulties within the unit
• Ability to manage band 5 staff as required
• Ability to supervise and participate in the orientation of students and new team members
• Ability to identify educational development needs within the team
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations/seminars and local/national events
• Proven ability to facilitate change

Desirable

• venepuncture and cannulation skills

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: North Middlesex Hospital, Sterling Way, London, N181QX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Team Leader - CCN Team, Rosana Da Silva, rosana.dasilva@nhs.net, 02088873301