About this role
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder will work collaboratively with team colleagues to foster a multidisciplinary approach focused on delivering consistently high-quality clinical services that enable children to access education in line with their healthcare needs.
Interview date: 29th July 2026
This is a community based post and therefore a full valid driving licence for the UK is essential
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS Essential
Current NMC Registration which includes registered children's nurse. Evidence of further training completed in a range of clinical skills Evidence of post registration/post graduate study in relevant area e.g. degree in children's community nursing or community specialist qualification or equivalent. Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE Essential
Substantial post registration experience of working with children who may have a learning disability, complex health needs, palliative diagnosis, an acute short- or long-term condition requiring nursing intervention Experience of supporting/supervising other team members and/or students Experience of delivering training to others including non-NHS staff, patients and their families/carers Experience in end-of-life care delivery Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and joint agency working
Desirable
Experience of working in the community setting.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE Essential
Knowledge of current legislative changes effecting the NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting special needs health and education Knowledge of child development and the needs of children with chronic and complex needs Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding and child protection procedures in Gloucestershire Ability to provide clinical supervision
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
Employer details Employer name Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Springbank Community Resource Centre
Springbank Way
Cheltenham
GL51 0LH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)