# Hospital @ Home Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/hospital-home-nurse/d0e2c1ca-8310-4a93-b787-decc5318c546 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/hospital-home-nurse/d0e2c1ca-8310-4a93-b787-decc5318c546.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bartholomew's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inc pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-24T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-16T08:40:47.485Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Childrens_Hospital_at_Home/Childrens_Hospital_at_Home-v8298959 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8298959?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an acute children’s nurse who’s looking to branch out into community nursing? Or a Children’s Community nurse looking for more acute focussed nursing care at home? The Royal London Children’s Hospital is looking to recruit or second a band 6 children’s nurse to cover maternity leave to support delivery of the innovative and exciting hospital @ home service commissioned by Tower Hamlets CCG. The team visit acutely unwell children in the community to offer treatment preventing them from attending hospital and/or staying in longer than needed. The H@H team forms part of the Pan London H@H forum with its additional support and links that helps to provide a cohesive and high quality service to the children of Tower Hamlets. The successful candidate will have excellent team working and decision making skills and put their patients first. We are looking for experienced and highly skilled children’s nurses who can work autonomously to care for acutely unwell children at home. Bart’s health has a wealth of learning and career development opportunities that will support you in your career aspirations. Will you take the leap? ### Main duties of the job - To facilitate efficient and effective patient flow from attendance to hospital to referral home, helping to ensure that we meet the 4 hour wait target in the emergency department. - To perform highly skilled acute nursing care and assessment for children at home - To work closely with the ward managers, paediatricians, matrons and flow team on a daily basis to expedite referrals home - To act as an excellent role model and leader to all staff - To participate in the development of new pathways of care - To support the evaluation of the service regularly and adapt as necessary ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager. ### 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 ### Other **Essential** - Adaptable and responsive to changing needs of the service - Ability to accept wide responsibility and use own initiative - Ability to identify and prevent stress in self and others, also taking effective action to manage the situation when it does impact on capability. - Able to cope with and confidently work in adverse situations, being able to rapidly appraise and manage situations ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent clinical nursing skills pertinent to the role - Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own workload - Assertively manages situations which may be complex and involve conflict or crisis. - Experience of the application, of professional judgement in a range of clinical and non-clinical situations. - Excellent interpersonal skills, is engaged and able to negotiate and mediate - Communicates with clarity and direction, both written and verbally - Analyses and identifies trends in clinical information, identifies issues and proposes solutions to problems **Desirable** - IT skills, use of data and spread sheets, production of clear reports, action plans and presentations - Venepuncture and Cannulation skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of current issues relating to patient safety - Knowledge of current legislation affecting health - Good knowledge of anatomy and physiology and the management of an acutely unwell child ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of Work based learning and ability to meet competencies - Significant post registration experience within an acute or community nursing setting. - Experience of facilitating clinical decision making and the application of professional judgement in clinical situations - Awareness of professional responsibilities **Desirable** - Completion the Advanced assessment of the presenting child Module at MSc level - Community Qualification - Independent prescribing or commitment to work towards ### Qualifications **Essential** - CN or RN (Child) - Relevant First level degree or masters in appropriate subject or working towards **Desirable** - Recognised teaching/ mentorship qualification - Previous audit experience ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 508.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10618067) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## 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.