Senior Children's Hospital at Home Nurse

Job summary

Are you a Children's Nurse passionate that no child should be in hospital if care can be provided closer to home? Do you want to build on your clinical skills in the community?

Join our evolving Children's Hospital @ Home team! In collaboration with University Hospital Southampton NHS trust (UHS), the service works closely with the medical team at the hospital and GPs in the community to facilitate acute assessment with the aim to prevent & minimise admissions to hospital and facilitate early discharge where possible.

There's lots of training available to gain new and enhance existing skills and will be development opportunities available.

"We have an amazingly supportive team who work well together with the changing workload and demands. We have brilliant access to expert advice from consultant paediatricians, to support our clinical decisions. This service has so much potential to improve patient experience and outcomes." Senior Staff Nurse

"Leaving a job in a busy neonatal unit after 15 years was a daunting decision, but I'm very grateful I decided to apply. I am developing acute assessment skills, maintaining clinical skills and able to work autonomously. It's very rewarding to receive feedback from families where we have made a positive impact. The future is exciting!" Community Staff Nurse

The service working hours at 8am until 8pm 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

The Children's Hospital @ Home team provide specialist nursing care, support, and co-ordination of care; predominantly to children and young people with short term health care needs requiring urgent care pathways enabling early, safe planned discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admissions..

Manage a caseload and carry out specific health care assessments and/or interventions.

To carry out initial assessment of patients with short term health needs by telephone.

Provide remote clinical assessment via telephone or video call.

Autonomous clinical assessment of acutely unwell child in the home environment

Provide supervision and monitoring of junior staff with support of clinical team leader.

Participate in the administration of medicines including intravenous therapy, in partnership with pharmacy colleagues.

Working collaboratively with all professionals to enable children/young people to be cared for at home whenever possible. The information received is often of a complex and sensitive nature requiring sensitivity, empathy and reassurance.

Demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, keeping up-to-date with new developments in nursing care and treatments ensuring practice is evidence based by utilizing current research.

To actively participate in and promote Clinical Supervision and Reflective Practice.

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: 21 August 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: Full-time, Part-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-12205
• Job locations: Adelaide Health Centre, Western Community Centre, William Macleod Way, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 4XE, 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).