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Senior Community Children's Nurse

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Location
Salary
£55,524 - £62,652 pa inc
Profession
Nurse (community and district)
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
19 May 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
05 May 2026

Job overview

Are you a passionate, energetic and an experienced Community Children’s Nurse?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time band 7 Senior Children's Nurse to work within the Bexley and Greenwich Community Children’s Nursing Team and integrated Hospital at Home Team.

The post holder will be a Children’s Nurse with extensive knowledge and experience of working within the community, thus being an exceptional role model and able to demonstrate evidence of up to date academic development post registration.

The team  provides a seven day service from 08.00 to 20:30, there is also 24 hour on call provision for children & young people who require end of life care at home.

Main duties of the job

The CCN/HAH is part of an integrated network of services for children in Bexley and Greenwich providing high quality specialist child centred care. The team of specialist and children’s community nurses provides highly skilled, nursing care to children and families with nursing needs in their own homes or community settings.

To deputise for the team manager when required, to clinically lead on service projects and developments including facilitate the engagement of  the team in change management and  service innovations.

This is a post suitable for a Children’s Community Nurse who should have extensive experience of working within a Community Children’s Nursing Team and academic qualifications set within the person specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work within an integrated Children's Nursing team covering both CCN/HAH, the role as a community Children's Nurse is highly varied . We are one large team covering both borough's of Greenwich & Bexley. The caseload is varied with referrals of CYP who have complex medical needs, long term health conditions and short term health conditions requiring rapid service input to enable CYP to be discharged from hospital early.

Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of role responsibilities.