Community Children's Nurse - Staff Nurse

Main area Communuity Children's Nurse Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (4 days a week 8am-6pm or 5 days a week 9am-5pm Including weekends) Job
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Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site The Gem Center Town Wolverhampton Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/03/2026 23:59

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a childrens nurse to join our existing, well established Community Children's Nursing Service.

The Community Children’s Nursing service provides holistic care to sick children by providing nursing care in the community setting, empowering and enabling the child, family/carers’ to become more competent in the management of the child’s condition, thereby reducing the need for hospital admissions or enabling early discharge.

The Community Children’s Nurses provide nursing care to children and young people with a life-limiting, life-threatening condition, complex disability, long-term conditions as well as palliative and end-of-life care. The service also provides short-term nursing care to sick children to enable early discharge from hospital.

The post holder will be a qualified nurse, registered as a Children’s Nurse and NMC and experience within the acute care setting post qualification. You will require flexibility, good communication, literacy and IT skills and show evidence of working within a multi-disciplinary team. Clinical nursing skills will be required relevant to children with acute illness, complex disability and chronic and complex health needs.

The service and The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust will offer the post holders an opportunity to work in a supportive, multidisciplinary environment recognising children / young people and their families are at the heart of everything we do, to ensure we deliver the highest possible standards of care.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards;
The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

To empower and enable children and their carers to become more competent in the management of their child’s condition, thereby reducing the need for hospital admissions and enabling early discharge into the community

To be the first contact point for case-managed children, to co-ordinate appropriate healthcare and support, to meet the child’s holistic needs

To improve quality of life of children and young people and reduce the risk of acute episodes

To ensure the early recognition or change of condition facilitating early interventions, providing least intensive care in the lease intensive setting

To provide ongoing preventive care and support at a time and in a venue of client choice

To liaise with hospital staff involved in care following admissions, informing them of the child’s usual status and aiming to reduce length of stay

To co-ordinate care services, delivered in the community, to meet the needs of the child and family through the Lead Professional role.

To monitor the progress of children with long term conditions promoting the healthiest possible lifestyle and offering them and their parents/carers…