Band 5 Children's Community Nurse
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Solihull, B90 4BN
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 September 2026
2 days left
Job description
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic Children's trained nurse with experience in nursing children to join our team. The Children's Comm...
You will be required to manage a named caseload of children under the supervision of a senior nurse and will be expected to manage your own time and use your own initiative to provide evidenced based quality care.
You will assess and plan the care needs of children/young people and their families in the home, their school and other community settings. Your assessment and interventions will take into consideration the immediate and long term physical, psychological and social impact of diagnosis and treatment and identify the impact of this on a child/young person's development.
You will have good knowledge and experience of working within Safeguarding procedures and will be expected to attend/ support the team to attend Multidisciplinary team meetings and Safeguarding meetings. As a member of this team you will be supported with regular clinical supervision, appraisal and relevant team meetings.
A flexible working approach and an enthusiasm for long term, complex, palliative and end of life care is essential.
The role will entail teaching and sharing information with parents, carers, students and other professionals and experience in teaching others would be valuable.
If you have the relevant experience or are interested in widening your experience, would like to join a small, friendly and proactive team and are committed to improving the outcomes for children and their families then please apply.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Sick Children's Nurse/Child Branch.
- *Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- *Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
- *Recognised Teaching Qualification.
- *Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential
- *Substantial post registration experience.
- *Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- *Able to utilise IT skills to document events on a day-to-day basis, write up minutes from meetings and disseminate accordingly.
- *To supervise junior staff on a day-to-day basis, to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff.
- *Dexterity and co-ordination is required for IV, CVL, IM interventions, the administration of medications, passing of naso-gastric, gastrostomy and tracheostomy tubes.
- *Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safeguarding and disability.
- *Knowledge of recognised health related issues in children and young people with complex and life limited conditions.
Desirable
- *Experience of working within the community setting.
- *Evidence of ability to train carers/children and young people/staff.
- *Recognition of children continuing care.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to listen and be a good communicator in a variety of settings/services and enthuse others -- can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding.
- *Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well being of clients in a holistic way.
- *Able to plan, assess, implement care and evaluate complex activities such as hospital discharge or packages of care.
- *Able to work on own initiative and be self directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care.
- *Able to demonstrate innovation in current area of practice.
- *Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent.
- *Good team working skills.
- *Effective time management skills.
- *Professionally up-to-date.
- *Innovative.
- *Reliable.
- *Able to pass occupational health clearance.
- *Able to maintain professional appearance.
- *Ability to work flexibly to meet operational needs of the team and wider organisations.
- *To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non judgmental reliable and honest.
- *Car driver, with independent means of transport on a daily basis.
- *Willing to undertake disclosure and Barring service at Enhanced level.
Desirable
- *Use Trust IT system
- *Enthusiastic.
- *Resourceful.
- *IT skills.
- *Sense of humour.
- *Clean driving licence: less than 3 points on licence.
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
24 August 2026
Last checked
26 August 2026
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