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Job summary

Main area
women and children
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Part time - 17.25 hrs per week)
Job ref
162-7628-WC
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King George Hospital
Town
Ilford
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 Per Annum Inclusive/ pro rata for part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/02/2026 23:59

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Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Band 6 Children’s Community Nurse

Band 6

 

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePIUCfMPLk

Job overview

This is a permanent role with full-time and part-time opportunities available (total 1.4 WTE). An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Children’s Nurse to join the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT), providing care for children and young people across Redbridge. The service operates within the Children’s Directorate and works closely with the Children’s Community Nursing Services in Barking and Havering.

The post holder will work autonomously in the home setting, demonstrating clinical expertise and a commitment to delivering high-quality, family-centred care. Excellent communication skills, a positive approach to service development, and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams are essential. Ongoing professional development is actively supported. Applicants must hold a full clean UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

 Our busy Children’s Services operate across Queen’s Hospital, Romford, and King George’s Hospital, Ilford, providing a wide range of medical and surgical care. This includes two inpatient wards (one with a co-located four-bedded HDU), a CYPAU unit, a day unit with POSCU and haematology services, outpatient clinics with a GP ‘hot clinic’, a team of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and the Children’s Community Nursing Team. We also have a 32-cot Level 2 NICU with community and outreach support for discharged babies.

Children’s emergency care is delivered across two busy Emergency Departments, with a four-bedded Fit to Sit CCDU at Queen’s Hospital. The team is expanding and led by the Divisional Director of Nursing and Head of Nursing for Children and Young People. This role will be led by a Band 8a Lead Nurse for Children’s Community Nursing and supported by a senior nursing and multidisciplinary team. Staff benefit from corporate training, in-house leadership programmes, and university partnerships to support career progression. 

 

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work autonomously as a key member of the Specialist Children’s Community Nursing Team, managing a defined caseload of children and young people with complex health needs and disabilities within community settings. They will deliver high-quality, holistic, and family-centred nursing care to children and young people supported by the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT), providing direct clinical care for those with both acute and long-term conditions. The role focuses on effective case management to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and ensure continuity of care. The post holder will work in close partnership with children, young people, their families and carers, and a wide range of multidisciplinary and multi-agency professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Children’s Nurse (RN Child) with current NMC registration
  • Must hold a valid, clean driving licence
Desirable criteria
  • Community nursing qualification (SPQ) or willingness to work toward one

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience working autonomously and managing caseloads
Desirable criteria
  • Experience supervising junior staff or students
  • Experience in community or outreach nursing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Fiona cook
Job title
Childrens Community Nurses
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708 435 000
Additional information

Ext 6554

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