Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Community Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Contract end date - 03-SEPT-2027.)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Occasional Bank Holiday Working)
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-8157641
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chalkhill Community Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Children's Community Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
We are seeking a compassionate Band 6 Children's Community Nurse to join our Brent Children's Community Nursing Team on a part-time fixed-term contract until 3rd of September 2027, based in Wembley.
Working across children's homes, schools and nurseries, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to children and young people with a range of complex health needs. You will assess, plan and provide specialist care, including tracheostomy care, central venous access, enteral feeding and intravenous therapies, while working closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to deliver seamless, child-centred care.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your community nursing skills within a supportive and inclusive team committed to improving outcomes for children and their families.
Join us and help make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people across Brent.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- Provide information, education and emotional support to children, young people and their families, empowering them to make informed decisions about their care and ongoing health needs.
- Promote health education and wellbeing by providing advice, guidance and practical support to children, families and carers, encouraging self-management where appropriate.
- Maintain the highest standards of infection prevention and control, ensuring the safe handling and disposal of body fluids, clinical waste and contaminated sharps in accordance with Trust policies.
- Work autonomously as a lone practitioner within the community, confidently managing your own caseload while receiving clinical support, supervision and guidance from the Children's Community Nursing Team Leads.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Education/ Qualification
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration for children’s nursing
- Evidence of post registration study / learning over the past two years.
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of at least 1 year of working as a registered children’s nurse in a community nursing role
- Recent experience within as acute/community setting
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
- Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution
- Teaching in the practice situation
- Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
- Experience of managing staff within a team
- Managing a safeguarding caseload
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to support people to make informed decisions in relation to their health and well-being.
- Demonstrate ability to adapt to working within a changing environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of research - based practice
- Evidence of supporting equality and valuing diversity in own practice
- Evidence of current clinical competencies relevant to community nursing.
- Medicine management/administration
- Obtaining consent
- Empowering and working in partnership
- IV Passport
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of assessment of health needs of the local population
- Background knowledge of current policy relating to public health and primary care
- Awareness of health needs of children and young people
- Able to work efficiently in the community
- Nasogastric Tube Insertion competent
- IM injection competent
- Venepuncture
- Central line competency
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Academic ability to study independently at degree or postgraduate level.
- Good computer literacy skills e.g., Microsoft word, excel
- Excellent, adaptable communication skills both written and verbal.
- Numeracy and Literacy skills
- Able to willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health professionals
Desirable criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlene Stewart-Grimes
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07931733526
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