# Senior Community Children's Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-childrens-nurse/1689d5db-cd11-4ab1-bef6-44295b30a688 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-childrens-nurse/1689d5db-cd11-4ab1-bef6-44295b30a688.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Gloucester - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (with occasional weekend working) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-19T15:12:15.523Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Cheltenham/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Specialist_Nurse_Training_Clinical_Support_Education/Specialist_Nurse_Training_Clinical_Support_Education-v8091257 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8091257?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Children’s Community Nurse to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, family-centred care to children and young people with complex health needs across Gloucestershire. The Children’s Community Nursing Team supports children with life-limiting conditions, long-term health needs, and medical complexity, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge, and enable children to receive care in their homes, schools, and community settings. As a member of the team, you will combine expert clinical practice with leadership responsibilities, supporting service development and clinical governance. You will manage a clinical caseload, contribute to safeguarding processes, deliver education and training to families and professionals, and work collaboratively with health, education, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated care. The role also includes participation in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care at home. This position offers an excellent opportunity for a skilled children's nurse who is passionate about delivering outstanding community-based care, developing others, and helping shape services that make a meaningful difference to children, young people, and their families. ### Main duties of the job - Deliver specialist nursing care, assessment, treatment, advice and support to children and young people with complex, life-limiting and long-term health conditions in community settings. - Hold responsibility for assessing health needs, developing and reviewing care plans, and coordinating care in partnership with families and multidisciplinary professionals. - Manage a clinical caseload and provide expert clinical decision-making to support safe, effective and person-centred care. - Support the Team Leader with the operational delivery and ongoing development of the Children’s Community Nursing Service - Deliver training, competency assessment and ongoing support to parents, carers, school staff and other professionals caring for children with complex healthcare needs. - Participate in safeguarding processes, including attendance at Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups and Child in Need meetings, ensuring the welfare of children remains central to practice. - Work collaboratively with acute hospitals, paediatricians, education providers, social care services and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated and integrated care. - Contribute to clinical governance, service improvement, audit and quality initiatives to maintain high standards of care and support evidence-based practice. - Participate in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care within their home environment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will work collaboratively with team colleagues to foster a multidisciplinary approach focused on delivering consistently high-quality clinical services that enable children to access education in line with their healthcare needs. Interview date: 29th July 2026 This is a community based post and therefore a full valid driving licence for the UK is essential ## Job Details We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Children’s Community Nurse to join our Children’s Community Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, family-centred care to children and young people with complex health needs across Gloucestershire. The Children’s Community Nursing Team supports children with life-limiting conditions, long-term health needs, and medical complexity, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge, and enable children to receive care in their homes, schools, and community settings. As a member of the team, you will combine expert clinical practice with leadership responsibilities, supporting service development and clinical governance. You will manage a clinical caseload, contribute to safeguarding processes, deliver education and training to families and professionals, and work collaboratively with health, education, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated care. The role also includes participation in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care at home. This position offers an excellent opportunity for a skilled children's nurse who is passionate about delivering outstanding community-based care, developing others, and helping shape services that make a meaningful difference to children, young people, and their families. ## Job Description Deliver specialist nursing care, assessment, treatment, advice and support to children and young people with complex, life-limiting and long-term health conditions in community settings. Hold responsibility for assessing health needs, developing and reviewing care plans, and coordinating care in partnership with families and multidisciplinary professionals. Manage a clinical caseload and provide expert clinical decision-making to support safe, effective and person-centred care. Support the Team Leader with the operational delivery and ongoing development of the Children’s Community Nursing Service Deliver training, competency assessment and ongoing support to parents, carers, school staff and other professionals caring for children with complex healthcare needs. Participate in safeguarding processes, including attendance at Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups and Child in Need meetings, ensuring the welfare of children remains central to practice. Work collaboratively with acute hospitals, paediatricians, education providers, social care services and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated and integrated care. Contribute to clinical governance, service improvement, audit and quality initiatives to maintain high standards of care and support evidence-based practice. Participate in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care within their home environment. ## Responsibilities The post holder will work collaboratively with team colleagues to foster a multidisciplinary approach focused on delivering consistently high-quality clinical services that enable children to access education in line with their healthcare needs. Interview date: 29th July 2026 This is a community based post and therefore a full valid driving licence for the UK is essential ## Person Specification ### QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - Current NMC Registration which includes registered children’s nurse. - Evidence of further training completed in a range of clinical skills - Evidence of post registration/post graduate study in relevant area e.g. degree in children’s community nursing or community specialist qualification or equivalent. - Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent ### LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Substantial post registration experience of working with children who may have a learning disability, complex health needs, palliative diagnosis, an acute short- or long-term condition requiring nursing intervention - Experience of supporting/supervising other team members and/or students - Experience of delivering training to others including non-NHS staff, patients and their families/carers - Experience in end-of-life care delivery - Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and joint agency working **Desirable** - Experience of working in the community setting. ### PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Knowledge of current legislative changes effecting the NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting special needs health and education - Knowledge of child development and the needs of children with chronic and complex needs - Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures in Gloucestershire - Ability to provide clinical supervision ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 197.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10384656) - [person specification (pdf, 130.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10384657) - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) ## 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.