HCRG Care Group

Band 6 Childrens Nurse - Exeter House School

The closing date is 01 February 2026

Job summary

We are delighted to invite applications for a Band 6 Childrens Nurse to join Exeter House School. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to combine clinical expertise with leadership, supporting children and young people with complex health needs in a specialist school setting.

This is a part-time role working 26.25 hours per week.

As a Band 6 Childrens Nurse working in Exeter House School, you will support the attendance and inclusion of children with complex medical needs at Exeter House School by:

Providing nursing support, training, and advice to colleagues at Exeter House School to enable and empower them to feel confident with meeting complex health needs.
Being a point of contact at school for health information and support/sign posting for families and carers to ensure children have improved health and education outcomes.
Working in close partnership with a range of other statutory and voluntary agencies, ensuring that children access the right support at the right time
Providing training and, where applicable, child specific competency sign- off, ensuring school can safely meet assessed health needs and are confidently able to follow child specific care plans
Support with maintaining school training records in relation to health needs training/clinical skills training
Writing and updating individual health care plans where applicable
Supporting with health needs risk assessments to support inclusion and access to activities

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 Childrens Nurseyou will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Band 6 AfC Salary Pro Rata with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

22 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/42452/18219

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6AT

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will have:

Essential

RSCN or equivalent
Current registration with the NMC
Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
Commitment to client-centred practice.
Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
Broad knowledge of normal child development
Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.
Evidence of continuing professional development.
IT skills (or willingness to learn)
Evidence of the implementation of risk assessments.
Significant experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
Three years, proven relevant post registered experience.
Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end of life nursing needs.
Holds a current driving licence and a well-maintained car for work use, with business use insurance.
Ability to prioritise and manage own emotional wellbeing, recognising when stress is impacting negatively on work and personal life.

Desirable:

Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or Diploma (or documented experience of working in the community)
Experience of working with children with complex and/or additional needs.
Proven experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies (or equivalent experience.

Other requirements

Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will have:

Essential

RSCN or equivalent
Current registration with the NMC
Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary interagency team.
Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
Ability to prioritise own workload, balancing numerous demands and meeting deadlines.
Commitment to client-centred practice.
Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within both formal and informal environments.
Ability to communicate effectively complex and sensitive written and verbal information.
Ability to maintain accurate records within professional and organisational guidelines and process.
Broad knowledge of normal child development
Working knowledge of a wide range of nursing models of practice.
Working knowledge of relevant legislation and national guidelines.
Working knowledge and evidence of observational implementation of therapeutic assessments, interventions relevant to children and young people.
Evidence of continuing professional development.
IT skills (or willingness to learn)
Evidence of the implementation of risk assessments.
Significant experience of working within the community/primary care setting.
Three years, proven relevant post registered experience.
Proven experience of working with children with palliative or end of life nursing needs.
Holds a current driving licence and a well-maintained car for work use, with business use insurance.
Ability to prioritise and manage own emotional wellbeing, recognising when stress is impacting negatively on work and personal life.

Desirable:

Community Specialist Practitioner Degree or Diploma (or documented experience of working in the community)
Experience of working with children with complex and/or additional needs.
Proven experience of working with children using ventilators and tracheostomies (or equivalent experience.

Other requirements

Ability to travel to meet the needs of the job.

Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Desirable

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Person Specification

General Requirements

Essential

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Desirable

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6AT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 6AT

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)