Job summary
12 Month fixed term Contract (September 2025 - August 2026)
There's no place like home!
With more emphasis on care being delivered in the community to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge, there has never been a better time to join the Community Children's Nursing Team in Tower Hamlets.
We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills to join our team, to deliver care within an integrated way across the community. This is a 12 month fixed term contract to cover study leave.
Your focus will be on delivering day to day evidence-based nursing care and case coordination for children and young people aged 0-18 with acute, short- and long-term nursing needs. You will adopt a person-centred care approach, focusing on the individual needs of the child and their families, encouraging active engagement to empower and create independence whenever possible.
At Young Barts Health, we believe you offer the best care to your patients when you feel supported and can work in a way that suits you, your life, and your family. As a flexible employer we will support you with this is the best way we can.
As a Trust, we believe in developing our talent from within. We have extensive opportunities for talented individuals looking to further their skills and knowledge.
For more information, please contact Jenny Raison
0207 767 3322 Option 1 or email jraison@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
To achieve the best health and well-being outcomes for every child referred to the Community Children's Nursing Team (CCNT).
To facilitate early discharge of children from hospital and reduce or prevent hospital re-admission.
To work together with parents to produce a joint plan of care to meet the needs of their child.
To enable and empower parents to look after their child with our support.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- RSCN / RN Child with current registration
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or working towards it
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children with acute and chronic illness.
Communication
Essential
- Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
- Communicates with people in a form and manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating as well as appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
- Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedure
Skills
Essential
- Ability to take initiative
- Able to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to priorities workload and develop efficient working practices
- Experience of working in partnership with families and sharing information with key disciplines involved.
- Good communication skills verbal, non-verbal, written and IT
- Support junior staff members and students in their learning objectives
- Able to recognize own learning needs, both independently and within performance and development plan
Desirable
- Experience of Health Promotion.
- Participation in Audits
Personal and people development
Essential
- Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure
- Takes responsibility for own learning
- Responsible for own Individual Performance Review
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
- RSCN / RN Child with current registration
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or working towards it
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children with acute and chronic illness.
Communication
Essential
- Communicates in a manner that is consistent with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
- Communicates with people in a form and manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating as well as appropriate to the purpose of the communication and the context in which it is taking place
- Takes a proactive role in producing accurate and complete records of communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedure
Skills
Essential
- Ability to take initiative
- Able to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to work within a team
- Ability to priorities workload and develop efficient working practices
- Experience of working in partnership with families and sharing information with key disciplines involved.
- Good communication skills verbal, non-verbal, written and IT
- Support junior staff members and students in their learning objectives
- Able to recognize own learning needs, both independently and within performance and development plan
Desirable
- Experience of Health Promotion.
- Participation in Audits
Personal and people development
Essential
- Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure
- Takes responsibility for own learning
- Responsible for own Individual Performance Review
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).
