Senior Community Children's Nurse

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Children's Community Nurse to join our Children's Community Nursing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, family-centred care to children and young people with complex health needs across Gloucestershire.

The Children's Community Nursing Team supports children with life-limiting conditions, long-term health needs, and medical complexity, helping to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge, and enable children to receive care in their homes, schools, and community settings.

As a member of the team, you will combine expert clinical practice with leadership responsibilities, supporting service development and clinical governance. You will manage a clinical caseload, contribute to safeguarding processes, deliver education and training to families and professionals, and work collaboratively with health, education, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated care.

The role also includes participation in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care at home.

This position offers an excellent opportunity for a skilled children's nurse who is passionate about delivering outstanding community-based care, developing others, and helping shape services that make a meaningful difference to children, young people, and their families.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver specialist nursing care, assessment, treatment, advice and support to children and young people with complex, life-limiting and long-term health conditions in community settings.
• Hold responsibility for assessing health needs, developing and reviewing care plans, and coordinating care in partnership with families and multidisciplinary professionals.
• Manage a clinical caseload and provide expert clinical decision-making to support safe, effective and person-centred care.
• Support the Team Leader with the operational delivery and ongoing development of the Children's Community Nursing Service
• Deliver training, competency assessment and ongoing support to parents, carers, school staff and other professionals caring for children with complex healthcare needs.
• Participate in safeguarding processes, including attendance at Child Protection Conferences, Core Groups and Child in Need meetings, ensuring the welfare of children remains central to practice.
• Work collaboratively with acute hospitals, paediatricians, education providers, social care services and voluntary sector partners to ensure coordinated and integrated care.
• Contribute to clinical governance, service improvement, audit and quality initiatives to maintain high standards of care and support evidence-based practice.
• Participate in the Band 6 end-of-life on-call rota, supporting children and families who choose to receive palliative and end-of-life care within their home environment.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

23 June 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-26-479

Job locations

Springbank Community Resource Centre

Springbank Way

Cheltenham

GL51 0LH

United Kingdom

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