# Band 5 Children’s Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-childrens-nurse/f1ed9a63-3636-4d06-8d9e-4f9f96cc47f0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-childrens-nurse/f1ed9a63-3636-4d06-8d9e-4f9f96cc47f0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: Nights / weekends expected - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Weekends / Nights) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T14:34:46.744Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Basingstoke/Hampshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Nursing/Paediatric_Nursing-v8374722 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8374722?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Child Health team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Children’s Nurse to join our dedicated Children’s Unit. As an integrated service, we take pride in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to children and their families when and where they need it. We are proud to be one of the few services of this kind in the UK. We have opportunities across a range of clinical areas, including the Acute Children’s Unit, Day Surgical Unit and Neonatal Unit in Winchester. We welcome applications from nurses looking to begin or develop their careers in paediatric nursing within a supportive and dynamic team. Positions are available across our Basingstoke and Winchester sites, offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience and contribute to delivering excellent care to children and their families. At HHFT, we offer a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support suited to your individual needs, alongside ongoing support from the Clinical Education Team, for you to achieve your full potential. We register all NQN's onto the Wessex Child or Neonatal preceptorship programme, with support from the HHFT Child Health education team ### Main duties of the job To support the team in the delivery of the service, this includes: - High standards of Professional Practice to ensure quality and safety of patient care, experience and the patient journey. - Developing own clinical practice, knowledge, skills and experience. - Acting as a good role model - Supporting the team in ensuring that clinical services are delivered to a high quality of care and that all compliance requirements such as CQC and contractual requirements are achieved. - To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients using investigative and analytical skills where factors may be conflicting, requiring analysis and interpretation skills and the comparison of a range of options to achieve effective treatment or discharge planning check - To develop clinically reasoned treatment, action, and discharge plans and to undertake and evaluate treatment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered. Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills and ability **Essential** - - Ability to demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values. **Desirable** - Customer care experience and dealing with complaints ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Experience of working within Child Health **Desirable** - HCSW experience within Child Health, Neonatal Unit ### Training and qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse, with Experience - Children's Nurse qualification - Computer Literate **Desirable** - Continued professional CPD - Aware of HHFT Trust Core Values - Experience of staff and student supervision ## Documents - [nqn jd (pdf, 570.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702794) - [pledge (pdf, 205.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10702795) - [hhft employee rewards & benefits (pdf, 723.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=900) - [tackling climate change at hampshire hospitals (pdf, 4.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2900) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.