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Children in Care Nurse

HCRG Care Group

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Salary

£35,392 to £42,618

Contract

Not specified

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

1 November 2026

12 days left

Job description

As a Band 6 Children in Care Nurse you will be part of our valued team at Derby Court, Trowbridge in Wiltshire.

You will feel valued as a Band 6 Nurse in HCRG Care group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

  • £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with full AfC terms and conditions including an NHS pension
  • Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
  • Free on site-parking at your base location
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
  • Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
  • An open, culture where you are encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 Nurse (SCPHN desirable) to join our Children in Care health team for 33 hours per week based at Derby Court, Trowbridge, though this is a community role.

The Children in Care health team, work with our partnership agencies striving to make positive changes and improve health outcomes for children in care.

You will join a supportive and welcoming team of specialist health nurses and admin support and be managed by the Named Nurse for Looked After Children. The Team is committed to professional development and successful applicants will have opportunities to access further training.

Working hours are typically Monday-Friday 9am-5pm , though we are committed to flexibility with hours and offer hybrid working to meet the needs of the staff, clients, and the service.

If you a Band 5 Nurse looking to take the next step in your career or an established band 6 we would love to hear from you! Especially if you have an interest or previous knowledge of Looked After Children already!

As a Children in Care Nurse you will work with wider team to provide a service that promotes the physical, mental, and emotional health of children and young people and support for families and carers.

  • Assess, plan, and evaluate the health needs of children on the caseload, challenging and escalating concerns where needed.
  • Undertake assessments, considering emotional, mental, physical, and sexual health, ethnic and cultural needs.
  • Provide direct clinical services to Looked After Children, to ensure that where possible every child has an individual and holistic health care plan.
  • Provide direct services, enhancing local co-ordination and communication between young people, carers, health, education, social services, and voluntary agencies.
  • Provide quality care and health assessments making appropriate care planning recommendations, surveillance, advice, support and health promotion
  • Deliver training to foster carers and other health and social care professionals.

For further responsibilities please see the attached job description.

For more information, please contact Lena Pheby at or telephone / mobile:

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Be a Registered Nurse withNMC registration
  • Hold a SCPHN Qualification (desirable)
  • A fullUK Driver's Licence and access to a car.
  • Have experience and a passion for Children in Care.
  • Have experience and an interest in Safeguarding
  • It would be an advantage if you held a qualification/ knowledge in Contraception and Sexual Health due to the service's strong focus on young people's sexual health

If you have an interest in working with this diverse group of children and young people including unaccompanied asylum seekers, we are keen to hear from you.

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Attached documents

  • Band 6 Job Description CIC HCRG- BSW-FINAL.docx

Children in Care Nurse

  • Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Pro Rata
  • Frequency Annual
  • Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/44687/20816
  • Contract Type Permanent - Part Time
  • Closing Date 18 October, 2026
  • Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery...

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First seen

4 October 2026

Last checked

20 October 2026

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