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Senior Community Children's Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Southampton, SO16 4XE

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

6 September 2026

6 days left

Job description

Due to an exciting service expansion we are looking to appoint a highly skilled, enthusiastic and forward-thinking Senior Community Children's Nurse t...

Manage a caseload. Provide specialised, high quality skilled nursing care, considering the physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of the child with nursing care needs. This will include those with complex health care needs, palliative care needs, life-limiting illnesses and children dependant on technology (and those requiring short term support). This requires developing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes of care.

  • Teach families/carers to carry out specific complex nursing care and procedures which enables them to feel confident and competent in caring for the child.
  • Participate in the administration of medicines including intravenous therapy and cytotoxic drugs, in partnership with pharmacy colleagues. Be aware of current drugs/therapies in the treatment of pain and other symptoms. This requires specialist knowledge of children's palliative care issues and symptom management.
  • Maintain regular liaison with local paediatric unit, paediatric emergency department, primary health care team and other agencies to ensure good communication and continuity of care for the child. Working collaboratively with all professionals to enable children/young people to be cared for at home whenever possible.
  • Participate fully in the on-call rota with other Children's Community Nurses and to take responsibility for providing end-of-life care out of hours as required.

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.

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

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc Nursing or RN in Child Nursing and currently registered with NMC.
  • Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
  • CCN Specialist Practitioner Qualification or willingness to complete within 2 years of being appointed.
  • Practice assessor/supervisor or alternative mentorship qualification

Desirable

  • History Taking and Physical
  • Assessment qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans.
  • Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
  • Experience of MDT working.
  • Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students.
  • Evidence of recent CPD.
  • Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 August 2026

Last checked

25 August 2026

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About the employer

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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