# Childrens Community Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-community-nurse/907b7639-dd2b-4071-a63a-342ef04d5aa9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-community-nurse/907b7639-dd2b-4071-a63a-342ef04d5aa9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Warrington Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T13:09:01.609Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9835-WC26-161 - **Application URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/application/C9835-WC26-161/pre-application-questions-pause?referrer=jobadvert&ref=C9835-WC26-161 - **Employer website:** https://northcheshireandmersey.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Are you a passionate, registered Childrens Nurse looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference? Join our Childrens Community Nursing Team and help deliver high-quality care to children and young people in homes, schools, nurseries and clinics. We work closely with children and their families to ensure that wherever possible, care can be delivered safely in the comfort of the childs own home. You will support children with complex health needs and acute or long-term conditions, using your clinical skills, communication skills and compassion. This is an exciting opportunity to work both independently and as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team. ### Main duties of the job As a Childrens Community Nurse, you will play a key role in helping children and young people receive specialist, high-quality care. Working closely with children and their families, you will assess individual health needs and plan and deliver evidence-based care. You will support children with complex, acute, chronic, life-limiting or additional health needs across homes, schools and community clinics. The role will involve tracheostomy care, non-invasive ventilation, intravenous and subcutaneous medication, port flushing and central line care, enteral feeding, and safe airway management, including suctioning and administering nebulised medication as well as acute nursing skills. You will also facilitate timely hospital discharge, working with the wider multidisciplinary team, and build the confidence of parents, carers and school staff through practical clinical training and support. ### About us Flexible working will be considered for all roles. North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region. Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities. Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation. Our mission We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other Our vision We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn Our values - Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone - Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working - Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all - One team: We work well together and with our communities ### Details - Date posted: 14 October 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 5 - Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working - Reference number: C9835-WC26-161 - Job locations: Great Sankey Hub, Lingley Green Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 3AA, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities To work within the Childrens Community Nursing Service, delivering high quality, evidence-based nursing care for children and young people with life limiting and life threatening conditions and supporting children and young people with short- and long-term conditions. To identify the health needs of children to be nursed in the community and work in liaison with multi-agency partners to promote collaboration and effective communication. To work across the Childrens Community Nursing Service developing skills in complex, acute and long-term conditions care. Full Job Description attached. ### UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). ### 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 (Opens in a new tab). 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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Post registration experience - Able to effectively supervise/support fellow team members and student nurses. **Desirable** - Use skills to teach/develop fellow team members, student nurses, parent/carers and education staff - Able to undertake Practice Assessor / Supervisor role. ### Relationships **Essential** - If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship. ### Right to Work **Essential** - Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work in the UK? - If appointed, will you require sponsorship under a UK work visa route (now or in the future)? - Please note that sponsorship is not available for all roles. Sponsorship will only be considered where the post meets the relevant UK immigration requirements and where the organisation determines that sponsorship is appropriate for the role. ### Qualifications **Essential** - 1st level Registration RSCN/RN Child - To possess or be willing to complete the Paediatric Clinical Examination and Minor illness module. **Desirable** - Post Reg education. - To possess or willing to work towards BSc in Community Childrens Nursing. ### Skills & Knowledge **Essential** - Relevant experience working in a healthcare setting with children and their families, with complex health needs / acute health needs **Desirable** - IT skills. - Teaching, audit and evaluation skills. - Caring for children within a community setting. - Completion of an Intravenous therapy course ### Job Specific Requirements **Essential** - The ability to travel independently across the trust - The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs ## 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.