Senior Acute Children's Nurse

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced paediatric nurse to join our Children's Outreach Assessment and Support Team (COAST) across Portsmouth and South East Hampshire.

COAST provides responsive, nurse-led care for babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs. Working closely with our Acute CCN colleagues, hospital paediatric teams, GPs and wider MDT, we assess and support children in the community, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge wherever possible.

You will undertake telephone, virtual and face-to-face assessments of acutely unwell children, using your clinical expertise and decision-making skills to deliver safe, effective care. You will work autonomously whilst being supported by an experienced and highly skilled team with access to specialist paediatric advice.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop acute assessment skills, expand your community experience and be part of an innovative service delivering care closer to home.

What we offer:

Advanced assessment and clinical decision-making opportunities

Training and professional development

Regular clinical, safeguarding and management supervision

Leadership and service development opportunities

A supportive team environment

Service hours: 8am-8pm, 7 days a week,364 days a year

If you are passionate about improving outcomes and want to be part of a dynamic and evolving service, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

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Deliver specialist nursing care, support and care coordination for babies, children and young people with acute and short-term healthcare needs.

Support admission avoidance and facilitate safe, timely discharge through delivery of urgent care pathways in the community.

Undertake telephone, virtual and face-to-face assessments, including autonomous assessment of acutely unwell children within their home environment.

Manage a caseload of children and young people, planning and delivering evidence-based care and interventions.

Recognise the deteriorating child, initiate appropriate interventions and ensure safe escalation of care, working closely with acute paediatric services, primary care, ambulance services and other partners.

Work collaboratively with families and multidisciplinary teams to enable children and young people to receive care at home wherever appropriate.

Provide clinical support, supervision and developmental opportunities for junior staff alongside the Clinical Team Leader.

Maintain high standards of clinical practice through continued professional development and evidence-based care.

Actively participate in clinical supervision, safeguarding supervision, reflective practice and quality improvement initiatives

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 14 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-12796
• Job locations: Battenburg Avenue Clinic, Battenburg Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 0TA, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).