Job summary
This nursing role within Sussex Community Foundation Trust's Children's Community Nursing Service (CCNS) focuses on clinical and public health care for children, young people, and families.
The Children's Community Nurse (CCN) supports the development of the local and countywide CCNS, working with the Team Lead and senior nurses to ensure care aligns with Trust and national standards.
They deliver specialist community nursing for children and young people on the caseload, applying current knowledge and skills, and consulting clinical experts for specialist input when needed.
As a Registered Nurse - Child, the CCN promotes health and wellbeing and ensures safe, high-quality care and hold a delegated caseload, work under senior supervision, collaborating with other health professionals and partner agencies.
The role includes contributing to the teaching and supervision of nurses, healthcare assistants, associate practitioners, and students.
They are also responsible for safeguarding children in line with The Children Act (1989 & 2004) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (HM Gov 2013).
Please note that this is a part-time and fixed term role.
Main duties of the job
Provide competent, high-quality nursing care, support, and advice within a delegated CCNT caseload, ensuring appropriate resources are available. Maintain effective communication with families, carers, and partner services across health, social care, education, and hospice sectors to ensure coordinated care. Contribute to the development and review of clinical protocols and deliver community-based education on equipment and treatment. Accurately document all care and advice provided. Act as a role model in children's community nursing and participate in relevant training and professional development. Must be flexible to work across West Sussex and Brighton & Hove as required by the service.
This is a part-time fixed term role, therefore, please note that due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
Skilled Worker visa: going rates for eligible occupation codes - GOV.UK
Health and Care Worker visa: If you'll need to meet different salary requirements - GOV.UK
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide, receive and understand complex, sensitive information relating to children and young people with a range of health needs including children with complex long-term conditions, those children with life threatening and life limiting conditions and those with short term health needs.
Work collaboratively with team members, Team Lead, Clinical Facilitators, Matron for CCNS, Head of CCNS, Practice Development Nurses, childrens services professionals and other professionals to promote and ensure high standards of professional and clinical practice drawing on national best practice and Trust policy.
Communicate information effectively with members of the multi-professional team both within the organisation and with external stakeholders and partners, to ensure specialist care is delivered to children both effectively and efficiently and ensuring that continuity is maintained.
Communicate information in an empathetic way to parents/carers and young people which relates to the clinical care of the child/young person and the provision available to them.
Actively listen to parents/carers, children and young people and respond appropriately.
Works with children and families to help maintain their own health and well-being in the community by teaching them and junior staff/carers about their condition and its management, including how to carry out health care procedures at home, utilising a variety of strategies to assist the family in understanding their childs health needs and how these can be met.
Involves others in communication between the childrens families / carers and the multi-professional team both within the organisation and with external stakeholders/partners and ensures good communication for the delivery of safe quality care.
Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to children/young people and their families and other staff helping to overcome any barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events. Seeking guidance and support from other practitioners where needed.
Communicate proactively with staff on the clinical condition and treatment/discharge plans of children and ensures accurate records are maintained by staff.
Help lead and support team in co-ordinating the discharge process and ensures high standards of written and verbal advice are available to the children and their families / carers.
Ensure that the CCN Case Manager and Team Lead are informed of pertinent clinical and management problems in a timely manner.
Report and escalate as necessary any safeguarding or patient safety concerns for the children on the caseload.
Ensure systems are in place to proactively disseminate information; attends and contributes to multi-disciplinary team meetings, reads emails and professional/managerial literature as required to pass on relevant information to wider CCNT.
Act as an ambassador / role model for Sussex Community NHS Trust and the Nursing Profession. May be asked to give presentations to university students and other interested bodies about the work of the CCNS.
Deliver and help maintain excellent nursing care and practice standards within the CCNT, helping to review where needed.
Work together with the CCN Case Manager and Team Lead to help ensure the consistent delivery of safe quality nursing care for children.
Continue personal, professional development to ensure competency in key CCN skills relevant to role.
Ensure health records are maintained and compliant with Trust policy and keep accurate, legible, contemporaneous records and written reports as required.
Assist the Team Lead, Safeguarding Team and Head of CCN Service in co-ordinating child protection processes in accordance with Trust policy whilst supporting junior staff in understanding and exercising the Trust safeguarding policy and Sussex procedures.
Maintain and help to analyse relevant service data which will demonstrate activity of the team and assist with identifying service needs and possible developments.
Regularly evaluate the clinical effectiveness of care and in consultation with Team Lead and senior nurses in the wider CCN service, make adjustments where appropriate in order to make the best use of team and SCT resources.
Develop, implement, and evaluate guidelines/teaching tools for children, families, and colleagues, healthcare professionals for use within the CCN service for care of identified health needs and promotion of well-being.
Participate in nursing research and audit projects pertinent to clinical community practice in conjunction with CCN services quality and standards forum.
Ensure when aware of clinical incidents in practice that these are reported via the correct channels and assist with the implementation of relevant recommendations.
Take part in the on-call rota in order to provide 24hr direct nursing support for end of life care and on call system.
Take part in the 7-day working rota.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide, receive and understand complex, sensitive information relating to children and young people with a range of health needs including children with complex long-term conditions, those children with life threatening and life limiting conditions and those with short term health needs.
Work collaboratively with team members, Team Lead, Clinical Facilitators, Matron for CCNS, Head of CCNS, Practice Development Nurses, childrens services professionals and other professionals to promote and ensure high standards of professional and clinical practice drawing on national best practice and Trust policy.
Communicate information effectively with members of the multi-professional team both within the organisation and with external stakeholders and partners, to ensure specialist care is delivered to children both effectively and efficiently and ensuring that continuity is maintained.
Communicate information in an empathetic way to parents/carers and young people which relates to the clinical care of the child/young person and the provision available to them.
Actively listen to parents/carers, children and young people and respond appropriately.
Works with children and families to help maintain their own health and well-being in the community by teaching them and junior staff/carers about their condition and its management, including how to carry out health care procedures at home, utilising a variety of strategies to assist the family in understanding their childs health needs and how these can be met.
Involves others in communication between the childrens families / carers and the multi-professional team both within the organisation and with external stakeholders/partners and ensures good communication for the delivery of safe quality care.
Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to children/young people and their families and other staff helping to overcome any barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events. Seeking guidance and support from other practitioners where needed.
Communicate proactively with staff on the clinical condition and treatment/discharge plans of children and ensures accurate records are maintained by staff.
Help lead and support team in co-ordinating the discharge process and ensures high standards of written and verbal advice are available to the children and their families / carers.
Ensure that the CCN Case Manager and Team Lead are informed of pertinent clinical and management problems in a timely manner.
Report and escalate as necessary any safeguarding or patient safety concerns for the children on the caseload.
Ensure systems are in place to proactively disseminate information; attends and contributes to multi-disciplinary team meetings, reads emails and professional/managerial literature as required to pass on relevant information to wider CCNT.
Act as an ambassador / role model for Sussex Community NHS Trust and the Nursing Profession. May be asked to give presentations to university students and other interested bodies about the work of the CCNS.
Deliver and help maintain excellent nursing care and practice standards within the CCNT, helping to review where needed.
Work together with the CCN Case Manager and Team Lead to help ensure the consistent delivery of safe quality nursing care for children.
Continue personal, professional development to ensure competency in key CCN skills relevant to role.
Ensure health records are maintained and compliant with Trust policy and keep accurate, legible, contemporaneous records and written reports as required.
Assist the Team Lead, Safeguarding Team and Head of CCN Service in co-ordinating child protection processes in accordance with Trust policy whilst supporting junior staff in understanding and exercising the Trust safeguarding policy and Sussex procedures.
Maintain and help to analyse relevant service data which will demonstrate activity of the team and assist with identifying service needs and possible developments.
Regularly evaluate the clinical effectiveness of care and in consultation with Team Lead and senior nurses in the wider CCN service, make adjustments where appropriate in order to make the best use of team and SCT resources.
Develop, implement, and evaluate guidelines/teaching tools for children, families, and colleagues, healthcare professionals for use within the CCN service for care of identified health needs and promotion of well-being.
Participate in nursing research and audit projects pertinent to clinical community practice in conjunction with CCN services quality and standards forum.
Ensure when aware of clinical incidents in practice that these are reported via the correct channels and assist with the implementation of relevant recommendations.
Take part in the on-call rota in order to provide 24hr direct nursing support for end of life care and on call system.
Take part in the 7-day working rota.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Child
- Current registration with NMC
Desirable
- Module in mentorship, ENB 998 or equivalent
- Children's Community Nursing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies
- Experience working with children who have complex health needs and disability
- Relevant post registration experience in child health care
Desirable
- Minimum of 1 year experience of children's nursing post registration (RNC)
- Experience of working with children at end of life
- Experience of working in a community setting
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assess health care needs for children aged between 0-19 years
- Ability to assess health care needs within a community setting
- Ability to assess continuing health care needs
- Ability to recognise and take appropriate action to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Ability to recognise and take appropriate action to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Broad general knowledge of the developing child
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines
- Working knowledge and evidence of implementation of holistic assessments and interventions relevant to children and young people
- Knowledge and evidence of implementation of clinical and environmental observational skills Commitment to personal and team development
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
- Ability to prioritise own workload and meet deadlines
- Commitment to young person centred practice
- Commitment to ensuring the continued well-being and safety of the child/ young person at all times
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive information both written and verbally.
Other requirements
Essential
- Holds full driving license and has access to a car to meet the travel needs of the role
- Be aware of and prevent waste of resources within the service and the wider Trust
- Ability to work flexibly on a rota system within the team including weekends.
- Demonstrate a positive commitment to uphold equality and diversity policies, including the ability to role model dignity and respect for fundamental rights of disabled children.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Child
- Current registration with NMC
Desirable
- Module in mentorship, ENB 998 or equivalent
- Children's Community Nursing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies
- Experience working with children who have complex health needs and disability
- Relevant post registration experience in child health care
Desirable
- Minimum of 1 year experience of children's nursing post registration (RNC)
- Experience of working with children at end of life
- Experience of working in a community setting
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assess health care needs for children aged between 0-19 years
- Ability to assess health care needs within a community setting
- Ability to assess continuing health care needs
- Ability to recognise and take appropriate action to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Ability to recognise and take appropriate action to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Broad general knowledge of the developing child
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines
- Working knowledge and evidence of implementation of holistic assessments and interventions relevant to children and young people
- Knowledge and evidence of implementation of clinical and environmental observational skills Commitment to personal and team development
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information
- Ability to prioritise own workload and meet deadlines
- Commitment to young person centred practice
- Commitment to ensuring the continued well-being and safety of the child/ young person at all times
- Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive information both written and verbally.
Other requirements
Essential
- Holds full driving license and has access to a car to meet the travel needs of the role
- Be aware of and prevent waste of resources within the service and the wider Trust
- Ability to work flexibly on a rota system within the team including weekends.
- Demonstrate a positive commitment to uphold equality and diversity policies, including the ability to role model dignity and respect for fundamental rights of disabled children.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
